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Neel Mehta

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    Mark Weatherford Joins ISSA Senior Member Ranks; Ira Winkler Comments

    Mark Weatherford, a principal at The Chertoff Group, has been promoted to the senior member ranks at the Information Systems Security Association. Weatherford holds the distinction of serving as the Department of Homeland Security‘s first-ever deputy cybersecurity undersecretary and is also a former chief security officer at the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, Chertoff Group announced Tuesday. The senior […] More

  • in Government Technology

    Dwayne Melancon, Brian Honan Lead Cyber Offense Session at RSA Conference

    Tripwire Chief Technology Cfficer Dwayne Melancon and Brian Honan, BH Consulting owner and CEO, are scheduled to discuss strategies for disrupting active cyber attacks at the RSA Conference. Melancon and Honan will host the 20-minute session on Feb. 27 at 3 p.m. Eastern time, Tripwire announced Saturday. “Cyberattacks are a fact of life and every CISO […] More

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    Harsh Patel to Help Lead Claremont Creek Ventures Investment Team

    Harsh Patel, formerly president of big data analytics firm Bina Technologies, has joined seed and early stage venture fund Claremont Creek Ventures as an investment team director. Patel is a former general partner at RRE Ventures and In-Q-Tel, with his career also including work as an angel investor and mentor to seed state companies, Claremont Creek announced […] More

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    Mark DeWitt to Speak at American Bar Association Panel Event

    Mark DeWitt, Triple Canopy deputy general counsel and vice president, will participate in a panel discussion on overseas contractor accountability work at an American Bar Association event. The program will be hosted by the ABA Section of Public Contract Law’s Battle Space and Contingency Procurements Committee on Feb. 18 in Washington, Triple Canopy announced Friday. Discussion […] More

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    API Technologies Obtains NIST Validation for Cryptographic Module; Henry Gold Comments

    API Technologies Corp. has obtained a validation for a cryptographic module from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The NIST issued the Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 to certify the API’s common cryptographic module as complying with information security regulations, API said Friday. Henry Gold, a general manager at API, said the module is […] More

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    Raytheon Air Navigation Tech Gets India Certification; Brian Hickey Comments

    A navigation system co-developed by Raytheon, the Airports Authority of India and Indian Space Research Organization has been certified for operational use in the country’s civil airspace. The GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation system is designed to help with air navigation and flight-path planning, Raytheon said Thursday. Brian Hickey, director of Raytheon Navigation and Landing Systems, said […] More

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    SAP Updates Cloud-Based Learning Hub With Online Rooms, More Titles

    SAP has released a new version of its SAP Learning Hub cloud-based site based on user feedback, with more than 2,000 educational materials available and features to interact with subject matter experts and peers. The learning hub offers training manuals, handbooks and learning videos on SAP platforms, as well as instructor-led learning rooms and large […] More

  • in News

    Sidra Berman Promoted to Savi Marketing VP Post; Bill Clark Comments

    Sidra Berman, most recently head of market management operations at Savi Technology, has been promoted to serve as the company’s vice president of marketing. She will report directly to President and CEO Bill Clark and have responsibility for implementing strategies to help the company expand into new markets and build brand awareness, Savi said Wednesday. […] More

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    IBM Initiatives Target Next-Gen IT Workforce in Africa

    IBM has launched several information technology programs in Africa to build a workforce with next-generation IT knowledge and skills and contribute to the continent’s economic development and growth, IBM said Thursday.  “Leaders in business, education and government agree that enabling the existing and future workforce to perform at the cutting edge of technology trends such as […] More

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    Robert Hoffman to Head Motorola Solutions’ Gov’t Affairs Org

    Robert Hoffman, formerly government relations senior vice president at the Washington-based Information Technology Industry Council, has joined Motorola Solutions as corporate VP and government affairs lead. He will report directly to Mark Hacker, general counsel and SVP of legal and government affairs, and be based at Motorola Solutions’ office in Washington starting in March, Motorola Solutions […] More

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    Brett Davis of Deloitte Joins Healthcare, Cloud Advocacy Group’s Board

    Brett Davis, a Deloitte Consulting principal, has joined the board of directors at open source advocacy group tranSMART Foundation after Deloitte awarded gold-level sponsorship to the foundation. The tranSMART Foundation works to help life science and healthcare enterprises use cloud computing to collaborate and share knowledge, Deloitte said Wednesday. Davis, Deloitte Health Informatics general manager, said the firm […] More

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    Intel Announces Five New Board-Elected Corporate VPs

    Intel’s board of directors has appointed five new corporate vice presidents with additional responsibilities in various business groups units within the company, Intel said Thursday.  As general manager of the wireless platform research and development group in the platform engineering group, Aicha Evans works on wireless engineering.  Suzan Miller and Steven Rodgers are both deputy […] More