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is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, told Inside Defense in an interview posted Tuesday that he is developing several executives who could potentially succeed him at the company. "I have two, maybe four [executives] that are in various stages of development, which is to me incredibly healthy," he said.
General Dynamics’ mission systems business and Bitglass have teamed up to combine their cloud access security broker platforms built to help government agencies and other organizations ensure zero-day data protection. General Dynamics said Monday it will integrate its Route 66 Cyber CASB with Bitglass-built platform to enable organizations to migrate, protect and track data and applications across multiple cloud platforms.
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Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena — for guiding health policy and helping patients access and share personal medical data. This marks the first Wash100 Award for Verma.
Some industry experts say the Section 809 panel’s recommendation to exempt the Pentagon from the Clinger-Cohen Act highlights the need to fix the budgeting approach to provide agencies the ability to facilitate the information technology acquisition process, Federal News Network reported Friday. Mark Forman, vice president and global head of public sector at Unisys, said the Section 809 report suggests that agencies have now shifted to buying IT as-a-service, instead of treating or procuring IT as a capital asset.
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The Defense Human Resources Activity has asked industry to submit white papers on commercial technology platforms that could help federal agencies carry out career development and retraining initiatives for government employees, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. The agency released the request for information on Feb. 26 as the government prepares to launch a pilot program to assess the capabilities of learning management systems and processes to advance skills development among federal employees.
Eric Trexler, vice president of global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, has said government agencies should build up trust when it comes to cybersecurity and one of the first steps is improving transparency with contractors. Trexler wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that having “security trust ratings†could help agencies improve trust and achieve greater transparency.
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Betty Thompson, chief people officer at Booz Allen Hamilton, has said there are several factors that employers can consider to attract and retain top talent in a competitive technology market. Thompson wrote in a commentary published Thursday on the Washington Business Journal that companies seeking to retain tech talent should offer flexible career paths to employees and provide them with opportunities to take part in projects that align with their personal goals and interests.
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IBM has made its Watson artificial intelligence platform available across all cloud environments offered by Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and other cloud service providers, Nextgov reported Thursday. Claude Yusti, head of the AI practice at IBM’s federal branch, said the move could help federal agencies advance AI adoption and circumvent barriers to data access and information sharing.
Parsons has decided to transfer its corporate headquarters from Pasadena, Calif., to the Washington, D.C. area in line with the company’s growth efforts in critical infrastructure, intelligence and defense markets. Chuck Harrington, chairman and CEO of Parsons, said in a statement published Thursday the move seeks to support the company’s concentration of employees in the Washington capital region and is driven by investments, acquisitions and other strategic actions in the past decade.
The Virginia Contracting Activity has issued a request for information on potential sources that could meet the Defense Intelligence Agency’s requirements to improve the intelligence community’s knowledge management platform. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says VACA looks for potential contractors that could deploy the Intelligence Community Knowledge Management Tool across multiple networks worldwide and deliver new capabilities to users with a focus on automating analytic workflows.
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Researchers from Anomali's research arm have identified a malicious server linked to two phishing campaigns that try to deceive government contractors to send sensitive information to threat actors. Anomali Labs said Monday its researchers detected on Feb. 23 the online bidding-themed phishing schemes, which lead contractors to fake landing pages mimicking the Department of Labor and the Department of Transportation’s eProcurement portal.
SpyCloud has secured $21M in a round of Series B financing led by Microsoft’s M12 venture fund and backed by March Capital Partners, Silverton Partners and Altos Ventures. The company said Wednesday it will use the investment to broaden its research-and-development work on account takeover prevention tools, expand its security research team and sales and marketing organization, increase its international presence and grow its database of recovered assets.
