CIOs at the Forefront »
CIOs for federal contractors have found themselves out in front of transformations in IT, business and government. What drove the change? The need to serve a unique client as fully, efficiently and securely as possible. To find some of the most forward- looking CIOs in the country, check the government contracting world first. In contracting [...]
STEM — Exciting America’s Future Workforce »
How the contracting sector is coming together to prepare today’s youth for tomorrow’s careers in math and science. Decades after leaving fifth grade, Ed Swallow still remembers the person who had a pivotal role in shaping his future career. A student who tested ahead in math and was already reading Scientific America at a young [...]
Executive Bookshelf: What the leaders are reading »
Being an executive in the ever-evolving government contracting industry requires a sharp mind. Every day, the industry presents new trends, technologies and challenges that impact corporate strategies, and a successful leader’s ability to generate efficient and innovative solutions comes down to one crucial trait — creativity. A creative mind produces ideas. Ideas grow into visions [...]
Potomac officer’s club – Threats Alive and Well Post-bin Laden »
Gen. Michael Hayden and Mike McConnell give their perspectives on terrorism a decade after 9/11. As veterans of the intelligence community, former CIA chief Michael Hayden and former Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell have become sought-out experts on terrorism, especially after the raid by U.S. Special Forces that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, [...]
GovConExec News Recap »
Important news of the past quarter. Management Moves Northrop Grumman elected CEO and President Wes Bush chairman of the company’s board of directors. Bush has served on the board since 2009 and succeeds Lewis W. Coleman. SRA International named William L. Ballhaus CEO and a member of its board of directors. Ballhaus previously served as [...]
The Spies are All Right »
Cries of an intelligence failure following the social unrest in the Middle East sparked a furious public debate. But it also illuminated a new role for the intelligence community in a world transformed by Twitter. It’s long been a truism of national security politics: There are policy successes and intelligence failures. The highest-ranking intelligence officials [...]
GovCon’s Executive Bookshelf »
President Harry S. Truman found successful people fascinating. How they accomplished greatness intrigued him, so he read all he could about them, seeking insight and enlightenment. What he no doubt found can be summed up in the words of Sir Isaac Newton: “If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of [...]
It’s All in the Details »
Dr. Vishal James Makker could be a medical miracle worker, saving Medicare patients from perpetual back pain, or he could be a fraudster, bent on bilking Medicare of hundreds of thousands of dollars. The Portland, Ore., spinal surgeon’s higher-than-normal rate of spinal fusions jumped off the page when The Wall Street Journal conducted a survey [...]
Long Road to Reform »
President Barack Obama swept into office issuing executive orders promising to reform government contracting. Congress also jumped into action. But two years later how likely are the reforms to stick? And what does government success mean for industry? In the spring of 2009, the Government Accountability Office issued its annual report on the Defense Department’s [...]
Brave Old World »
Identity Management and biometrics have been around longer than you think, but technologists and GovCon execs say the multimodalities in its future could be even more promising than its illustrious past. Students of biometrics often turn to the pages of science fiction to explain the rise of such technology as fingerprint scanners, face recognition software [...]
