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  • Martin Sutherland: BAE Eyes Demand for Tools Against Digital Criminality - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Martin Sutherland: BAE Eyes Demand for Tools Against Digital Criminality

    Growing awareness from U.K. enterprises on digital criminality could increase demand for methods to repel cyber attacks, according to Martin Sutherland, managing director for BAE Systems Applied Intelligence. Ninety percent of U.K. firms responding to a BAE survey believe that attacks will increase over the next two years, the company said Monday. “We’re starting to […] More

  • Tony Cole on FireEye's Mandiant Acquisition, Nature of Cyber Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Cole on FireEye’s Mandiant Acquisition, Nature of Cyber Threats

    Tony Cole serves as vice president and global government chief technology officer at FireEye, where he works with public sector agencies and other systems integrators to gain knowledge of the global cyber threat landscape and adapt enterprise approaches to address the threats. The former U.S. Army officer and Symantec business development leader addresses security conferences […] More

  • Lockheed's Stephanie Hill Recognized for Promoting STEM; CEO Marillyn Hewson on Hill's Leadership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed’s Stephanie Hill Recognized for Promoting STEM; CEO Marillyn Hewson on Hill’s Leadership

    Stephanie C. Hill, vice president and general manager of the civil business within Lockheed Martin‘s Information Systems and Global Solutions line, has been selected to receive the 2014 Black Engineer of the Year award from the Career Communications Group. The group recognized Hill for her 27-year career in engineering and leadership roles at Lockheed Martin […] More

  • Octo Consulting Group to Compete on $400M FBI IT Services BPA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Octo Consulting Group to Compete on $400M FBI IT Services BPA

    Octo Consulting Group holds a prime position on a potential five-year, $400 million information technology services blanket purchase agreement awarded by the FBI. The company will compete for task orders to assist in software deployments, infrastructure and other technology processes for FBI missions, Octo said Wednesday. Octo supported previous FBI programs in national security, cyber, science and […] More

  • ICF Forecasts North American Oil, Gas Production Trends Through 2035 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Forecasts North American Oil, Gas Production Trends Through 2035

    ICF International has released projections for natural gas, natural gas liquids and oil production across the U.S. and Canada through 2035. The first-quarter 2014 Detailed Production Report forecasts slowed gas production rates across the Haynesville Shale, the Greater Green River Basin, the Barnett Shale and the Fayetteville Shale due to a decrease in gas drilling activity, ICF said Thursday. […] More

  • Brett Lambert Named RSAdvisors' Executive in Residence; Pierre Chao Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Brett Lambert Named RSAdvisors’ Executive in Residence; Pierre Chao Comments

    Brett Lambert has been elected to serve as the executive in residence at Renaissance Strategic Advisors, where he will help provide strategic and market advice to the firm’s clients. Lambert was most recently the deputy assistant secretary of defense for manufacturing and industrial base policy, RSAdvisors announced Tuesday. He has also served as principal advisor […] More

  • Carol Mowder Named CH2M Hill Remediation Strategies Expert; John Mogge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carol Mowder Named CH2M Hill Remediation Strategies Expert; John Mogge Comments

    Carol Mowder has joined CH2M Hill as a subject matter expert in remediation strategies and bioremediation where she will help develop client site strategies and cleanup solutions for the company’s site remediation and revitalization practice. For the past 12 years, Mowder was with ARCADIS where she handled the company’s remediation strategies, bioremediation and performance-based remediation […] More

  • Yannis Karmis Named Sabre Corp. VP of Global Corporate Solutions Group - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Yannis Karmis Named Sabre Corp. VP of Global Corporate Solutions Group

    Yannis Karmis has been tapped to serve as the vice president of the newly formed global corporate solutions group of Sabre Travel Network. In this role, Karmis will handle the corporate travel solutions offerings of the company such as GetThere, TripCase Corporate and TruTrip, the company announced Wednesday. Greg Webb, Sabre Travel Network president, said […] More

  • Randy Fuerst Named to Federal Computer Week's 2014 Federal 100; Doug Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Randy Fuerst Named to Federal Computer Week’s 2014 Federal 100; Doug Smith Comments

    Randy Fuerst, Oceus Networks Inc. president and chief operating officer, has been named as one of the 100 individuals chosen by Federal Computer Week who “transformed their agency or accelerated their agency’s mission” through information technology. Fuerst was included in the FCW 2014 Federal 100 for his leadership involving the company’s various programs in 2014 […] More

  • Executive Profile: Jeremy Glesner, Berico Technologies CTO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: Jeremy Glesner, Berico Technologies CTO

    Jeremy Glesner serves as chief technology officer at software and analysis firm Berico Technologies, a company he helped start in 2006 as the “federal sector began embracing agile methodologies and open source technologies to deliver increased capability to the warfighter while reducing cost,” the company notes. Glesner and Berico’s other co-founders saw an opportunity to provide interdisciplinary teams […] More

  • Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Designs Cyber Tool for Security Teams - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mary Ann Hopkins: Parsons Designs Cyber Tool for Security Teams

    Parsons Corp. has introduced a new cybersecurity product that is designed to send crash information from reports generated by Windows operating system to a server for analysis. The Cran product is built to analyze information and determine whether the crash was caused by a hacker, Parsons said Monday. Parsons unveiled patent-pending Cran at the Washington-based […] More

  • HP Opens R&D Center for Int'l University - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HP Opens R&D Center for Int’l University

    Hewlett-Packard will build a research and development center at the University of South Australia, itnews said Monday. Allie Coyne writes a $5.5 million grant will be provided by the Australian government for the Innovation and Collaboration Center to be located at the university’s city west campus. “Students, graduates, commercialisation experts and industry have opportunities to explore new ideas […] More