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  • Executive Spotlight: Interview With Michelle Hertz, VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of CGI Federal
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview With Michelle Hertz, VP, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of CGI Federal

    ExecutiveBiz talked with Michelle Hertz, vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary, about her background, CGI Federal’s growth over the past decade and her views on the federal acquisition process. “Implementing a more robust pre-acquisition process would be a win-win approach for all parties because it would eliminate unnecessary business risks for industry and result […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Interview With Tommy Gardner, CTO of HP Federal
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview With Tommy Gardner, CTO of HP Federal

    Executive Biz spoke with Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer, about HP Federal’s role driving information technology modernization and cybersecurity enhancements. “One of the largest (and often overlooked) risks facing the federal government is an unsecured printer … From a security perspective, whether it’s documents left in the printer tray or a default password that has […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: Interview with Michael Niggel, CEO of ACT I
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    Executive Spotlight: Interview with Michael Niggel, CEO of ACT I

    ExecutiveBiz talked with Michael Niggel, CEO of ACT I, about his company’s recent contract wins, strong growth over the past few years and current positioning in the technology acquisitions market. “We expect to grow another 50-100% in 2018. Our national security, cyber and FMS markets are expanding because of the persistent and advanced global threats, […] More

  • Mark Garrett joins Cisco board of directors; Chuck Robbins comments
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    Mark Garrett joins Cisco board of directors; Chuck Robbins comments

    Mark Garrett, former executive vice president and chief financial officer of Adobe, has joined Cisco‘s board of directors, bringing with him more than 30 years of experience in financial management in technology. The networking hardware firm said Thursday it has selected 11 other executives to join its board of directors prior to appointing Garrett. “Mark has […] More

  • ManTech secures $104M for USMC vehicle work; Daniel Keefe comments
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    ManTech secures $104M for USMC vehicle work; Daniel Keefe comments

    ManTech announced Wednesday two U.S. Marine Corps contracts, a $82 million win with the U.S. Navy’s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic to bolster command, control, communication, computer and intelligence capabilities for combat vehicles, and a $22.5 million win for vehicle maintenance and support consisting of engineering, acquisition and lifecycle sustainment services for medium and […] More

  • Orbital ATK explodes partial 3D-printed warhead for hypersonic applications
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    Orbital ATK explodes partial 3D-printed warhead for hypersonic applications

    On March 29th, Orbital ATK tested a 50-lb. warhead designed for hypersonic weapons that was partially built from 3D-printed components, Defense News reported. The test assessed what effects the warhead’s fragmentation had on different targets. Hypersonic weapons are those that can surpass Mach 5 when traveling, five times faster than the speed of sound. Doug Truitt, […] More

  • LRASM field test from F/A-18 Super Hornet slated for this year
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    LRASM field test from F/A-18 Super Hornet slated for this year

    Boeing‘s F/A-18 Super Hornet will be live-testing Lockheed Martin‘s Long Range Anti-Ship Missile later this year, Military.com reported Tuesday. The AGM-158C LRASM is expected to become operational in September 2019. At Naval Station Patuxent River, Md., the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet completed a successful “jettison release” test in 2017, which led to captive-carry tests at Navy Air Weapons Station China Lake, […] More

  • Latitia McCane Named Education Director at Huntington Ingalls’ Apprentice School
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    Latitia McCane Named Education Director at Huntington Ingalls’ Apprentice School

    Latitia McCane, formerly dean of instructional services at Bishop State Community College in Alabama, has been appointed director of education at the Apprentice School managed by Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division. She will oversee the Apprentice School’s craft training, academic delivery, student services, accreditation and recruitment functions in her new position, Huntington Ingalls said said Friday. “Latitia comes to […] More

  • ViON to Provide Storage, Back-Up Systems to University of Wisconsin; Tom Frana Comments
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    ViON to Provide Storage, Back-Up Systems to University of Wisconsin; Tom Frana Comments

    The University of Wisconsin has selected ViON to help the UW system’s chief information officers implement storage and back-up platforms to support their information technology projects. ViON said Thursday it will supply the company’s switches, tapes and tape libraries to UW’s 26 campuses worldwide along with storage systems from Oracle, Fujitsu and Hitachi. Tom Frana, CEO and […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: An Interview With Wayne Lucernoni, President of ASRC Federal’s Information Systems and Technology Group
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    Executive Spotlight: An Interview With Wayne Lucernoni, President of ASRC Federal’s Information Systems and Technology Group

    ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Wayne Lucernoni about joining ASRC Federal and where he sees the company heading. “I am a firm believer that an organizational culture that emphasizes teamwork, ethics and community involvement not only creates a great place to work, but also enables success.” ExecutiveBiz: Congratulations on your new position. What led you to […] More

  • Executive Spotlight: An Interview With Tiffanny Gates, President & CEO, Novetta
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    Executive Spotlight: An Interview With Tiffanny Gates, President & CEO, Novetta

    ExecutiveBiz recently talked with Tiffany Gates, president and chief executive officer, about trends in data analytics and where she sees Novetta expanding in the future. “Our customers want to understand how emerging approaches such as deep learning can be applied to their problem sets, particularly in computer vision and object recognition. We think there are […] More