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Andras Szakal serves vice president and chief technology officer for the U.S. federal practice at IBM, where he is responsible for IBM’s industry technology strategy in support of U.S. federal customers. He leads a department of enterprise and technical architects responsible for developing e-Government software architectures using IBM technology and solutions. ExecutiveBiz caught up with Szakal […] More
Alan Stewart serves as chief financial officer at Oceus Networks. He joined the Reston, Va.-based company after nine years as CFO and senior vice president of ICF International, which grew its annual revenue six-fold during his tenure there. The 34-year financial and operational veteran led 10 acquisitions during his time at ICF and has completed three initial public offerings, including the […] More
Lockheed Martin has selected a subsidiary of IBC Advanced Alloys to supply beryllium-aluminum cast components for the F-35 jet’s electro-optical targeting system under a $2 million initial contract. IBC Engineered Materials will perform engineering and hard-tooling services and use the Beralcast beryllium-aluminum alloy to build an EOTS azimuth gimbal housing for the F-35, IBC said Monday. “A key attribute […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has christened the USS John Warner (SSN 785), the first Virginia-class submarine to be named after a living person – former Senator and Navy Secretary John Warner. Warner’s wife Jeanne led the christening ceremony as the ship’s sponsor, the company said Monday. “American technological innovation and manufacturing skill have always been some of our most […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a $26.8 million follow-on contract from the Defense Department for sustainment and operations support to the Integrated Data Environment/Global Transportation Network Convergence program, run by the U.S. Transportation Command and Defense Logistics Agency. The IGC program, which the company developed under a contract awarded in 2008, is designed to help make the supply chain visible and help DoD track […] More
Creative Computing Solutions has received a subcontract to help Palladian Partners perform research analysis and reporting services for the National Institutes of Health. CCSi said this month that it was chosen by Silver Spring, Maryland-based Palladian to work with NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health. The value of the subcontract was not disclosed. CCSi holds other contracts for work with federal agencies, such as a contract […] More
Cisco and Red Hat have extended their partnership to open collaboration around the OpenStack, Intercloud and Application Centric Infrastructure tools and unveiled a new integrated infrastructure for cloud deployments on OpenStack. Cisco said Thursday the new Cisco UCS Integrated Infrastructure product family is designed for private cloud operations on OpenStack and on-ramp to Intercloud for enterprise and midmarket customers. “Open […] More
Dave Swindle serves as executive vice president of international and special programs at URS‘ federal services division. In this role, he serves as URS’s executive for coordinating international operations and new international business development with line responsibility for contracts with the U.K. defense ministry of and international organizations that include but not limited to the […] More
Luanne Pavco serves as general manager of IBM public sector services, where she leads an organization of 5,000 management consultants and information technical specialists who work with federal government, state and local government, healthcare and education customers. She also leads the IBM Center for the Business of Government, which studies public sector issues. Pavco’s public sector services organization provides a […] More
A Lockheed Martin subsidiary has partnered with the Copenhagen Airport in Denmark to provide a data insights consulting service to other airports to use for support operational planning. Lockheed said Friday its BEONTRA subsidiary and CPH will jointly work with airports to analyze and optimize their data as they seek to manage costs in airport operations. “After working closely with Copenhagen Airport and […] More
All network security strategies are centered on protecting sensitive data and the success of such a measure relies on organizations’ understanding of both internal and external interactions with the data, according to Francis Ofungwu of Unisys. Ofungwu, director of network security services at the company, writes in a post published Thursday that organizations must perform data discovery, data isolation and monitoring […] More
Platform-as-a-service gives federal agencies a tool to support their initiatives on cloud computing and data center consolidation but many have not embraced PaaS due to several reasons, James Benson of HumanTouch says. Benson, a HumanTouch senior vice president, wrote in a post for GCN published Thursday that he believes some system integrators are hindering federal adoption of PaaS despite its functions in application […] More
