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  • Guillermo Gualino Named Agilent VP, Treasurer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Guillermo Gualino Named Agilent VP, Treasurer

    Guillermo Gualino has been promoted to serve as vice president and treasurer at Agilent Technologies from his most recent position of assistant treasurer. In his new role, Gualino will be in charge of the company’s treasury function and will report directly to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Didier Hirsch, the company announced Friday. Gualino replaces […] 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

  • Robert Michalsky of NJVC: Holistic Approach Needed to Secure Patient Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Michalsky of NJVC: Holistic Approach Needed to Secure Patient Data

    Robert Michalsky, a cybersecurity principal at NJVC, has proposed a holistic approach to dealing with account takeovers, medical device intrusions, application break-ins, insurance fraud and other health information breaches. Along with HIPAA compliance, healthcare providers must also practice good information security hygiene and address policy gaps, Michalsky said Friday at the annual HIPAA summit in Washington. […] More

  • Chris Tucker: Exelis to Unveil ISR Products in Asia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chris Tucker: Exelis to Unveil ISR Products in Asia

    Exelis will unveil its latest innovations in Singapore this week, seeking to present advances in electronic warfare and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology that Chris Tucker, vice president of international business development, hopes will entice new partners in the region. “We are excited to strengthen existing relationships and develop new ones during the Singapore Airshow,” […] More

  • Andrew MacDonald of Serco: Self-Service Tech Key to Customer Relationships, Data Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Andrew MacDonald of Serco: Self-Service Tech Key to Customer Relationships, Data Analysis

    Businesses should pay more attention to customer needs in a highly competitive climate, according to Andrew MacDonald, director of service design at Serco. MacDonald says in a white paper that self-service technology could push enterprises to seek out data analysis technology in order to get a better understanding of consumer behavior and decision-making. Knowing what a […] More

  • Oliver McGee: Cyber About 'Protecting the Critical Infrastructure of America' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oliver McGee: Cyber About ‘Protecting the Critical Infrastructure of America’

    Former Transportation Department official Oliver McGee warned against rising instances of online attacks on enterprises, utilities and educational institutions in an interview with GSN magazine published Thursday. “Cybersecurity is about protecting the critical infrastructure of America, which is our food, water, finances, healthcare, transportation, businesses, shopping, personal identities and records, schools and colleges,” said McGee, who served deputy assistant transportation […] More

  • Deltek's Chris Dixon: Tech Vendors Should Factor Risk Into Consortium Procurements - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Chris Dixon: Tech Vendors Should Factor Risk Into Consortium Procurements

    Government contracting analyst Chris Dixon believes there is potential as well as risk for technology vendors working with consortium-based buyers and they must include several factors in their risk assessments, he writes in a column published Saturday  by the Washington Post. Dixon, a senior manager at Deltek, writes state and local governments buy as a […] More

  • Red Hat’s Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen on Open Source in Gov’t - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat’s Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen on Open Source in Gov’t

    Open source technology is slowly finding its way into the public sector as governments seek to build infrastructures based on those tools, says Red Hat’s Dirk-Peter van Leeuwen, senior vice president and general manager for the Asia-Pacific region. Part of the appeal is that the open source model promotes transparency and collaboration, and can be used […] More

  • Pharmacy Chains, Orgs to Back Blue Button Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pharmacy Chains, Orgs to Back Blue Button Program

    Five major pharmacy chains and three pharmacy associations have agreed to support the Blue Button initiative as the federal government aims to spur development of new healthcare data applications in the private sector, Fedscoop reported Friday. Scott Maucione writes the Department of Health and Human Service has worked with more than 70 pharmacy organizations to publish a guideline for […] More

  • NCS Technologies Unveils New Zero-Client Computer Product - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NCS Technologies Unveils New Zero-Client Computer Product

    NCS Technologies Inc. has introduced a new computer device that stores user data in a remote server, GCN reported Friday. John Breeden II writes the Cirrus LT zero-client laptop works to connect a computer system to a data center through a remote workstation card with security protocols such as the Advanced Encryption Standard cryptography and […] More

  • Precise Biometrics Issues Fiscal 2013 Financial Report - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Precise Biometrics Issues Fiscal 2013 Financial Report

    Precise Biometrics AB has released its financial report for fiscal year 2013, the company said Friday. Precise Biometrics generated $5.4 million in net sales and $6.7 million in income while its earnings per share and year-end available cash reached $0.20 and $15.2 million, respectively. Precise Biometrics was selected as the fingerprint algorithm provider for a financial information […] More

  • Three Purdue University Professors Get Funds to Commercialize Research Projects - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Three Purdue University Professors Get Funds to Commercialize Research Projects

    Three professors at Purdue University’s colleges of engineering and science will work to develop and commercialize their research projects with around $130,000 in combined funding. The financial assistance will come from the Trask Innovation Fund, which aims to help faculty and staff further and market their works through the Office of Technology Commercialization, the Purdue […] More