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  • GovCon Leaders Talk Federal Cyber Defense in Sony Hack’s Wake
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    GovCon Leaders Talk Federal Cyber Defense in Sony Hack’s Wake

    The widely-reported cyber attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment that compromised emails written by the movie and television company’s leaders and personal information of employees took another turn Friday when the FBI publicly held North Korea’s government responsible for the hack. As covered on our sister site ExecutiveGov, the bureau said it traced the malware, lines […] More

  • Adnan Ahmed on CNSI’s Contract Vehicle Strategy and Advice for New GovCon Firms
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    Adnan Ahmed on CNSI’s Contract Vehicle Strategy and Advice for New GovCon Firms

    Adnan Ahmed, president of contractor CNSI, and his three other partners founded the Gaithersburg, Maryland-based company in 1994. The information technology and outsourcing services company has since grown to be a holder of prime contracts and positions on major contract vehicles. Ahmed recently sat down with ExecutiveBiz to discuss the company’s origins, offer advice for […] More

  • Randy Fuerst, Oceus CEO, on Public Safety Market Opportunities and Federal BYOD Programs
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    Randy Fuerst, Oceus CEO, on Public Safety Market Opportunities and Federal BYOD Programs

    Randy Fuerst, a nearly three-decade GovCon veteran, elevated to the CEO post at Reston, Virginia-based Oceus Networks earlier this year from his prior chief operating officer role there. He joined the broadband technology contractor in 2011 from CACI International, where he served as that company’s COO. Fuerst recently caught up with ExecutiveBiz to discuss wide-ranging topics […] More

  • Executive Profile: Paul Lemmo, Lockheed SVP of Corporate Strategy and BD
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    Executive Profile: Paul Lemmo, Lockheed SVP of Corporate Strategy and BD

    Paul Lemmo serves as senior vice president of corporate strategy and business development at Lockheed Martin and elevated to the position in early July 2013. The more than 25-year defense industry veteran leads a business organization that has offices in 25 U.S. cities and 25 countries. Prior to this promotion, he served as business development VP for […] More

  • Executive Profile: Erik Buice, Northrop VP of Health Systems Mgmt
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    Executive Profile: Erik Buice, Northrop VP of Health Systems Mgmt

    Erik Buice serves as vice president of  health systems management at Northrop Grumman, where he oversees two dozen programs and approximately 800 total staff that work on IT systems for federal clients. In this role, Buice works on programs that deal with electronic health records, bioinformatics research and the modernization of Social Security. Before joining Northrop, Buice worked for a […] More

  • Bill Sullivan on Informatica’s NA Public Sector ‘Building Out,’ Cloud Tech’s Role in Storage
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    Bill Sullivan on Informatica’s NA Public Sector ‘Building Out,’ Cloud Tech’s Role in Storage

    Bill Sullivan leads Informatica‘s public sector business in North America as vice president and general manager. Sullivan’s more than two-decade career includes stops at Lockheed Martin, where he led that company’s Savi Technology business, and a VP and GM role for North American state and local markets at PeopleSoft, which was acquired by Oracle. In this conversation with […] More

  • Executive Profile: Arjun Kampani, General Dynamics Land Systems’ VP and General Counsel
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    Executive Profile: Arjun Kampani, General Dynamics Land Systems’ VP and General Counsel

    Arjun Kampani serves as vice president and general counsel for the land systems business unit of General Dynamics, where he is responsible for that unit’s legal activities such as trade compliance. He has held this role since December 2009 and also advises and counsels the unit’s president and senior leaders on proposals, teaming agreements, contracts and joint ventures. Kampani also oversees litigation and risk […] More

  • Executive Profile: Phil Freedenberg, Business Development VP at SAP NS2
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    Executive Profile: Phil Freedenberg, Business Development VP at SAP NS2

    Phil Freedenberg has been vice president of business development at SAP National Security Services — or SAP NS2 — since 2011 and has served in leadership roles at SAP since 2007 over areas such as strategic account management in both the aerospace and defense sectors. Prior to SAP, the 25-year industry veteran helped to develop the aerospace and defense practice at […] More

  • Executive Profile: Kevin Shelly, MarkLogic Public Sector VP
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    Executive Profile: Kevin Shelly, MarkLogic Public Sector VP

    Kevin Shelly serves as vice president for the public sector at MarkLogic, where he has formulated sales strategy, policy and aligned resources for customer activities since he took that role in November 2012. He brings experience management consulting and systems integration to his current role from a prior tenure at KPMG/BearingPoint. After BearingPoint, Shelly became SVP of […] More

  • Steven Shugart on GardaWorld’s US Gov’t Market Aims, the Global Security Sector’s Future
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    Steven Shugart on GardaWorld’s US Gov’t Market Aims, the Global Security Sector’s Future

    Steven Shugart joined GardaWorld Government Services — a U.S.-based subsidiary of global security services contractor GardaWorld — in October of this year as president. Shugart’s GovCon career includes time at DynCorp International, where his roles included senior vice president of business development, VP of operations at International RAM Associates and 10 years in law enforcement. In this conversation with ExecutiveBiz, Shugart discusses […] More

  • Executive Profile: Chris Pehrson, Strategic Development Director at GA-ASI
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    Executive Profile: Chris Pehrson, Strategic Development Director at GA-ASI

    Chris Pehrson serves as director of strategic development for General Atomics-Aeronautical Systems Inc., where he is responsible for business acquisition strategies to promote company’s unmanned aircraft systems, tactical reconnaissance radars and sensor systems in U.S. and international markets. Pehrson joined the company in 2010 after service in the U.S. Air Force, where he commanded an operations group and two […] More

  • Executive Profile: Scott Scheimreif, EVP of Iridium’s Gov’t Programs Division
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    Executive Profile: Scott Scheimreif, EVP of Iridium’s Gov’t Programs Division

    Scott Scheimreif serves as executive vice president for Iridium’s government programs division where he is responsible for the company’s overall government sales, marketing and business development strategies with an emphasis on the U.S. defense and intelligence markets. He also leads the oversight of the management and delivery of Iridium’s product and services portfolio into new military and government […] More