Posts from GovCon Daily for 09/03/2015

EM Editor Ross Wilkers Discusses August Market Volatility’s Effects on GovCon Index to Federal News Radio

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 3, 2015 — Ross Wilkers, newsroom editor at Executive Mosaic, spoke with Federal News Radio Thursday to overview the August movements in the GovCon Index, Executive Mosaic’s composite stock index of 30 publicly-traded firms in the U…

Barbara Humpton: Siemens Aims to Bring More Tech Offerings to Federal Market

Barbara Humpton has explained her primary goal as the next CEO of Siemens Government Technologies — the German conglomerate’s U.S. federal arm — in an interview with the Washington Business Journal published Thursday…

Frank Kendall: Sequestration Hangs Over Defense Acquisition Programs

Frank Kendall, acquisition chief at the Defense Department, has said that it could take DoD a few more years to recover from the impact of budget uncertainty caused by sequestration, FCW reported Wednesday…

SIA-SRC Report: US Should Bolster IT Research Investments Through N-CITE

A report from Semiconductor Research Corporation and Semiconductor Industry Association says the U.S. needs to boost investments in information technology research with an emphasis on future Internet-of-Things and big data usage…

Terry Halvorsen: DoD Seeks Greater Financial Costs for Hackers

Pentagon CIO Terry Halvorsen seeks to work with industry to shift cost burdens of cybersecurity on hackers that try to attack Defense Department systems, FCW reported Wednesday. Sean Lyngaas writes that Halvorsen pegged the cost of DoD cyber defenses at approximately $44 billion per year in remarks to the AFCEA Nova conference…