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FBI Vet Ronald Yearwood Named Senior Managing Director of FTI Consulting’s Cyber Practice
Ronald Yearwood, formerly a senior executive in the FBI's cyber division, has joined global advisory firm FTI Consulting as a senior managing director for its cybersecurity practice on the West Coast.
Steven Walker, Director of DARPA, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Leadership in Advancing Artificial Intelligence, Other Tech Programs
Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Steven Walker, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his focus on emerging technology such as artificial intelligence.
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Michael Daly, Russ Schrader: Public-Private Collaboration Key to Infrastructure Cybersecurity
Michael Daly, chief technology officer for cybersecurity at Raytheon, and National Cyber Security Alliance Executive Director Russ Schrader wrote in a joint guest piece published Monday the government and industry need to closely collaborate and foster an aligned security ecosystem to protect infrastructure assets from cyber attacks.
Mitre, Visium Sign Cybersecurity Tech Licensing Deal
Visium Technologies has secured licensing rights to commercialize a technology Mitre developed for cyber warfare analytics, knowledge management and visualization tasks.
Cloudera’s Shaun Bierweiler: State, Local Governments Need to Harness Big Data via Strategy Implementation
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, has said state and local government agencies should have strategies in place to leverage big data in order to facilitate the delivery of citizen services.
Steve Harris, Dell EMC Federal SVP & GM, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Leadership in IT Modernization, Cybersecurity and Cloud Migration Efforts
Executive Mosaic is glad to unveil Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for leading the company's efforts to help federal clients modernize IT infrastructure, improve cybersecurity posture and transition to cloud-based platforms.
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SBA CTO Sanjay Gupta to Keynote AKIMA’s Tech for Govies Day
Sanjay Gupta, chief technology officer at the Small Business Administration, will deliver a keynote address at the AKIMA-hosted “Tech for Govies Day: Changing the Art of the Possible†event. AKIMA will hold hands-on demonstrations and panel discussions on information technology platforms and how they can benefit government agencies as part of the four-hour event, which will be held on April 23 at Convene in Rosslyn, Va.
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Industry Execs Talk Complex Supply Chain’s Impact on Cybersecurity at Senate Hearing
Industry executives appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday to discuss complex supply chains facing prime contractors and how the issue increases cybersecurity risk, Nextgov reported Wednesday. William LaPlante, senior vice president and general manager of Mitre’s national security sector, said some prime contractors do not know the companies their subcontractors work with.
 AECOM Names New Cyber/Electromagnetic, Business Dev’t SVP to Oversee Ft. Gordon Programs, John Vollmer Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 26, 2019 — AECOM (NYSE: ACM) named Robert Earl Johnson, an executive representing the company on cyber programs with the U.S. Army in Georgia, to elevate to the role of senior vice president for business development and cyber electromagnetic initiatives, GovCon Wire reported March 14. The company said March 13 the […] More
Merlin, Wickr Form Comms Encryption Partnership for Federal Clients
Merlin International and Wickr have formed a partnership to help federal customers protect communications and sensitive data through the use of cybersecurity technology platforms.