TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 26, 2018 ” Andras Szakal, vice president and chief technology officer of the U.S. federal business at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has received recognition from The Open Group industry consortium for his contribution to drive innovation through open technology standards, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. The organization said Friday&n...
ViON has received a potential 10-year, $170.9 million contract to supply chip sets for the Defense Information Systems Agency to use IBM-built (NYSE: IBM) servers. Under the contract, ViON will provide System P computer chips for the Power Systems server platform at multiple DISA facilities on an on-demand basis, the company said Wedn...
Mathew Newfield, former director of the global managed security services business at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has joined Unisys (NYSE: UIS) as chief information security officer. He will lead a corporate team that aims to design, develop and implement an information security and risk program across Unisys’ regions and businesses, which include it...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 12, 2018 ” The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted IBM (NYSE: IBM) a provisional authorization to host Impact Level 5 data at the Defense Department and other federal customers through its multitenant cloud computing service, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The authorization allows IBM to offer its...
John Pereira, intelligence industry leader for defense and intelligence at IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) global business services unit, has been named an intelligence community fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government. IBM said TuesdayPereira will lead the center’s thought leadership activity related to the government intel...
Weekly Roundup February 26 – March 2, 2018 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes This Week™s Wash100 Top Movers: GovCon Executives Outpace Government Counterparts Jim Garrettson, Executive Mosaic CEO We™re now six weeks into the 5th Annual Wash100 season and this week GovCon Executives outpaced Gov...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Feb. 13, 2018 ” Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has hired IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) former vice president for human resources as chief diversity officer who will lead cross-company workforce diversity efforts, GovCon Executive reported Monday. Lindsay-Rae McIntyre brings approximately 20 years of experience from her previous work, whe...
Giovanna “Gio” Patterson, most recently vice president for Booz Allen Hamilton‘s (NYSE: BAH) health business at the National Institutes of Health, passed away Sunday at the age of 53, GovCon Wire has learned. She played a key role in the development of the business unit’s analytics growth platform as well as the integrat...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Jan. 31, 2018 ” IBM (NYSE: IBM) is scheduled to deliver a neuromorphic supercomputer to the U.S. Air Force in the summer to support the Air Force Research Laboratory’s work in deep neural network learning and information discovery, ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. Signal Magazine reported Monday that the superco...
Weekly Roundup January 15 – January 19, 2017 Click here to see Real-Time GovCon Sector Quotes A Note From Our President & Founder Jim Garrettson This week we™re going to take a look at some of the recent executive moves in the GovCon marketplace. In the past few weeks there have been numerous changes in leadership including:...
