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  • Harris RF Communications Adds Julio Villafane to Executive Team - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris RF Communications Adds Julio Villafane to Executive Team

    Julio Villafane has been announced as the new managing director of the Caribbean/Latin America region for Harris RF Communications. Villafane will direct and manage all staff in the region, overseeing the regional headquarters in Miami as well as sales offices in Sao Paulo, Brazil,  Santiago, Chile, and Mexico City. He reports to Andy Start, who […] More

  • IBM, Dell, Cisco Systems Make the Green IT Leaders List - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM, Dell, Cisco Systems Make the Green IT Leaders List

    IBM, HP and Cisco have all made it onto the list of environmentally-friendly IT leaders. The “Summary report: Low carbon and Environmental Leadership in the ICT Industry by Gartner and WWF, 2010” study identifies the top 10 IT companies in terms of all-around greener performance. The top all-around performers include IBM,  Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, […] More

  • GovCon Heavy Hitters to Support European Smart Grid Cybersecurity Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GovCon Heavy Hitters to Support European Smart Grid Cybersecurity Forum

    A host of prominent government contractors have signed on to support the inaugural European Smart Grid Cyber Security Forum, taking place on the 14-15 March 2011 in London. As governments and utilities around the world continue to work on the deployment of the Smart Grid initiative, cybersecurity issues surrounding the business model are now top […] More

  • Cybersecurity, National Defense Luminaries Slated to Appear at Security Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cybersecurity, National Defense Luminaries Slated to Appear at Security Symposium

    Top experts in cybersecurity, homeland security and national defense are scheduled to appear at this year“™s National Symposium on Homeland Security and Defense, held Oct. 27-29 in Colorado Springs, Colo. Among others, experts include Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano; U.S. Northern Command Commander Adm. James Winnefeld, Jr.; Black Hat Director Jeff Moss; and […] More

  • Harris Corp. and Cisco Systems collaborate on cloud computing solution - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Corp. and Cisco Systems collaborate on cloud computing solution

    Earlier this month, Harris Corporation and Cisco Systems demonstrated the ability to rapidly, safely, and securely exchange healthcare information in a cloud computing environment at the Public Health Information Network Conference in Atlanta. They showed that security and privacy of web-based health information remains protected with a service as data is encrypted in transit and […] More

  • Australian hospital group undergoing transformation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Australian hospital group undergoing transformation

    Australia’s Mater Health Services, Queensland’s largest not-for-profit hospital group, is making significant strides in achieving its Smart Hospital strategy with a roll-out of an expanded suite of business applications on its Cisco® Medical-Grade Network across its seven ultra-modern hospitals, Cisco Systems announced today. In the third year of its Smart Hospital information and communications technology […] More

  • Are DoD Budget Cuts Ever Coming? - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Are DoD Budget Cuts Ever Coming?

    We reported in June that new administration“™s defense budget includes major cuts to big spending programs.  But overall, will the DoD“™s bottom line really shrink?  Counterinsurgency expert David Kilcullen, senior advisor to Afghanistan theatre commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal, sees “about two more years of heavy fighting“ ahead of us in Afghanistan, and the Washington Post […] More

  • Billable Hour Assault: Is Government Contracting Next? - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Billable Hour Assault: Is Government Contracting Next?

    What do pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, IT player Cisco Systems and credit powerhouse American Express have in common?  They’ve ditched the traditional hourly model for legal fees to cut costs. Pfizer, which spends over $500 million annually on legal fees, says it will cut legal costs by up to 20%, mostly through flat-fee arrangements, according to […] More

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