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Sutherland Global Rolls Out Public Sector Arm, Teresa Weipert on Civilian Agency Focus

Rochester, N.Y.-basedÂ business process outsourcing and technology management services provider Sutherland Global ServicesÂ will formallyÂ unveil a new unitÂ in September that will focus on work with federal andÂ other public sectorÂ agencies. Sutherland Government SolutionsÂ isÂ headquarteredÂ in Reston, Va. and aims to incorporate the parent company’s practices for call center management, BPO and analytics functions at government agencies. The parent company officially […] More

September 10, 2015, 12:20 pm
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Steve Harris on Dell’s ‘End-to-End’ Federal Market Footprint and Enterprise IT Trends at Agencies

Steve Harris joined Dell Federal — the technology maker’s federal government organization — in March 2014 to lead that business as vice president and general manager. Harris previously led Dell’s state and local government and education business as area vice president for nearly five years and has held other sales leadership roles at the company […] More

September 8, 2015, 1:41 pm
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Ray Whitehead on General Dynamics’ Cyber Focus in Healthcare Market, His Role in Tech Strategy

Ray WhiteheadÂ manages functions such asÂ business development operations and industry relationships for General Dynamics Information Technology — the defense contractor’s IT business unit — in his role as VP ofÂ business development and strategic planning. Whitehead, a retired U.S. Army armor officer joinedÂ the IT unit at its inception in 2006 through a combination ofÂ General Dynamics’ Massachusetts-based network […] More

September 2, 2015, 1:41 pm
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Rick Wagner on ManTech’s Cloud & Big Data Emphasis for Intell Agencies, ICITE’s Outlook

Rick Wagner joined ManTech International in June to lead the Fairfax, Va.-based company’s advanced technical solutions business unit as senior vice president and general manager. The more-than two-decade GovCon veteranÂ oversees an organization that collaborates with U.S. intelligence agencies on enterprise information technology initiatives and emerging tools such as cloud computing, analytics and big data. ExecutiveBiz […] More

September 1, 2015, 1:54 pm
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Dan Bennewitz, John Lind: QTS Targets Hybrid IT, Cloud Growth Through Carpathia Buy

QTS aims to grow its offerings for federal government and commercial enterprises to manage hybrid information technology environments through its $326 million acquisition of Carpathia that closed in June, two QTS executives have told ExecutiveBiz. Those environments present the combined company with an opportunity to shift agencies away from a â€œone-size-fits-allâ€ approach for their IT […] More

August 31, 2015, 1:31 pm
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Guest Post: Susan Penfield on How to Build, Foster a ‘Culture of Innovation’

(Susan Penfield is an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton) Culture isnâ€™t created by chance. Itâ€™s engineered, practiced, disciplinedÂ andÂ starts with people. Creating collaborative spaces that foster collisions of ideas between smart people with diverse experiences and expertise produces better, faster, more relevant technologies and processes. The idea of a culture of innovation is that […] More

August 17, 2015, 1:49 pm
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Scott Scheimreif on Iridium’s DoD Airtime Services Contract Work, SATCOM Tech Trends in Gov’t

Scott Scheimreif oversees Iridium‘s government programs in his executive vice president role at the McLean, Va.-based communications services contractor. HeÂ also managesÂ the company’s work under aÂ five-year, $400 million contract awarded to IridiumÂ in October 2013 for airtime services to the Defense DepartmentÂ through the Enhanced Mobile Satellite Services program with the Defense Information Systems Agency. Scheimreif recently spoke […] More

August 12, 2015, 1:27 pm
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Exclusive Interview: Chuck Prow on His New Sterling Capital & CPS Roles, Envisioned Growth Areas

Our sister site GovCon Wire broke the story Wednesday morning that Chuck Prow, who more recently led IBMâ€™s global government business, has retired from the company to take a new role as a principal at investment firm Sterling Capital Group Partners and hold the president title at its portfolio company CPS-Professional Services. Sterling is veteran-owned […] More

August 6, 2015, 2:30 pm
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Cisco’s Diane Gongaware on ‘Internet of Everything’ Trends in the Public Sector

Cisco describes the “Internet of Everything” concept as theÂ manyÂ connections that linkÂ people, data, process and thingsÂ andÂ technology transitionsÂ such as the “Internet of Things” to make those links happen. A 2013 white paper from Cisco estimates the IoEÂ to be a potentialÂ $4.6 trillion opportunity for the public sector through 2023Â and projects focus areas for government to includeÂ connected militarized defense […] More

July 29, 2015, 12:30 pm
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Tom Callahan on SafeNet Assured Technologies’ Launch, Future of Cross Domain Tech

Netherlands-based digitalÂ security firm Gemalto closed its $890 million purchase of SafeNet inÂ January of this year and shortly afterward officially launched a new subsidiary focused on the U.S. federal market — SafeNet Assured Technologies. Tom Callahan, vice president of sales at SafeNet AT, ledÂ SafeNet’s federal sales team as its VP prior to the transaction and is […] More

July 28, 2015, 2:53 pm
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Wes Anderson on Microsoft’s Interactive Data Push for Agencies, GovCon’s Tech ‘Drivers’

Wes Anderson serves as vice president of worldwide public sector services at MicrosoftÂ and leads a team that offers information technology services to U.S. and international government agencies. Anderson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, previously held the VP title for U.S. public sector services at Microsoft and also created and led the […] More

July 27, 2015, 2:07 pm
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Tom Romeo on MAXIMUS’ Post-Acentia Acquisition Strategy, Industry’s Role in Citizen-Gov’t Connections

Reston, Va.-based government services firm MAXIMUSÂ entered new phase of its history in April when the company closedÂ the $300 million cash acquisition of program management and technology contractorÂ Acentia. MAXIMUS initially announced the transaction in MarchÂ andÂ said it sought to add newÂ work for civilian and health agencies andÂ increase access to contract vehicles with multiple awardees. ExecutiveBiz recently spoke […] More

July 21, 2015, 3:30 pm