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    Tony Frazier on DigitalGlobe’s Open Source Collaborations and His New Gov’t Solutions SVP Role

    Tony Frazier became senior vice president of DigitalGlobe‘s government solutions business earlier this year and oversees the geospatial imagery provider’s work with U.S. government customers. Frazier, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, joined DigitalGlobe through its 2013 combination with GeoEye, where he led communications and marketing initiatives in an SVP role. In this conversation with […] More

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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on Inmarsat’s US Gov’t Market Strategy and Industry’s Role in Spectrum Mgmt

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, oversees direction and policy functions for the British satellite services provider’s U.S. government business unit. The nearly three-decade aerospace and defense veteran is also a former member of the Senior Executive Service and served as a program executive officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency before she entered the private […] More

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    Matt McQueen on Northrop’s Gov’t Relations Teamwork With Execs and Stakeholder Definitions

    At Northrop Grumman‘s information systems sector, Matt McQueen acts as its main spokesperson and communications liason to external stakeholders as the sector’s director of strategic and external communications. McQueen’s career at Northrop prior to that role includes nearly a decade as director for the sector’s government and industry relations functions and more recently as the company’s government relations lead for all state […] More

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    Wayne Lucernoni on Harris’ ‘Organic Growth’ Approach for IT Services, Healthcare Market Trends

    Wayne Lucernoni leads the information technology business of Harris Corp. as president out of the unit’s headquarters in Herndon, Va. Lucernoni, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2015, first joined the Melbourne, Fla.-based communications and technology contractor in 1990 and previously served as vice president and general manager for Harris’ intelligence, civil and healthcare programs. Lucernoni recently […] More

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    Professional Services Council Buys TechAmerica Foundation

    The Professional Services Council purchased the TechAmerica Foundation from CompTIA in a deal that sees the foundation’s annual Vision Forecast and Conference and other initiatives continue under the auspices of the PSC. “As we evaluated our strategic direction, we recognized that the activities of the TechAmerica Foundation could be better served by an organization aligned to […] More

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    DTE Energy Extends ICF’s Call Center, IT Services Contract

    Detroit-based power company DTE Energy has awarded a one-year contract extension for call center and information technology services to ICF International (NASDAQ: ICFI). ICF said Thursday it will continue to work with DTE on programs in areas such as heating and cooling, insulation and windows, home energy analysis and improvements, lighting and appliance and low-income resident programs. […] More

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    Mike Alber on Engility’s 2014 Acquisition Moves and How Companies Should Tackle IPOs

    In his role of chief financial officer at Engility, Mike Alber was one of the leaders that spearheaded the Chantilly, Va.-based services contractor’s $11.50-per-share purchase of Dynamics Research Corp. and pending $1.1 billion acquisition of TASC. As covered on GovCon Wire in December, the Federal Trade Commission has cleared the TASC buy and Engility expects the deal to close during the […] More

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    Noblis Chooses Reston, Virginia for New HQ Site in 2016

    Nonprofit science and technology organization Noblis has selected Reston, Va. as the location of its next headquarters site and plans to complete the move by Fall 2016. The Falls Church, Va.-based organization said Thursday it has signed a full-building lease to occupy 160,000 square feet of space at a building on Edmund Hally Drive that is […] More

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    Michael Isman on Booz Allen’s Management Consulting Community, IT Shifts in Gov’t

    Michael Isman oversees strategic consulting services for many of Booz Allen Hamilton’s federal customers in his vice president role at the firm. Isman last spoke to ExecutiveBiz in March 2013 to discuss Booz Allen’s strategic technology and innovation center of excellence and trends in information technology transformation. In this new conversation, Isman describes the work of the […] More

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    Executive Profile: Greg Taylor, DoD Sales VP at CenturyLink

    Greg Taylor joined CenturyLink in 2008 and serves as the vice president of Defense Department-area sales. In this role, Taylor and his team sell and provide CenturyLink offerings such as voice, data, video and professional services to DoD agencies worldwide. Before joining CenturyLink, he spent more than 26 years in the telecom industry serving in various sales and management positions. […] More

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    Executive Profile: Lynne Chamberlain-O’Neill, Red Hat Public Sector BD VP

    Lynne Chamberlain-O’Neill serves as vice president of business development for Red Hat‘s public sector. Prior to Red Hat, the more than 20-year industry veteran served as VP and general manager for Unisys‘ federal systems and technology business unit. She led the growth, margin, and profitability of enterprise offerings and services to the federal government. Before […] More

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    Executive Profile: Sarah Allen, EVP and Chief HR Officer at Leidos

    Sarah Allen serves as executive vice president and chief human resources officer at Leidos, where she also is a member of the Leidos Relief Foundation’s board of directors. She joined the company in September 2008 when the company was known as Science Applications International Corp. and has served as HR senior VP for a group of […] More