Wes Bush is the president and chief operating officer of Northrop Grumman, and he also serves on the company’s Board of Directors and on the corporate policy council. He was appointed corporate vice president and chief financial officer for the company in 2005. Prior to joining Northrop Grumman, Bush served as president and CEO for [...]

Before being appointed president and CEO of SRA International in 2007, Stan Sloane served as executive vice president of integrated systems and solutions at Lockheed Martin Corporation. In his position, he led an organization that rendered systems engineering and integration services to the federal government and other international clients. Sloane began his career in 1984 [...]

John Hillen has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Global Defense Technology & Systems, Inc. since August 2008 and a member of the board of directors since January 2008. Prior to joining GLOBAL Defense Technology, from January 2007 to August 2008, Dr. Hillen was President of Global Strategies Group (USA) LLC. From 2005 [...]

Greg Baroni is the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Attain, LLC (formerly Eclat), which provides strategic, healthcare, application, operational and security services for a wide array of markets. Prior to landing at Eclat, Baroni spent seven years at Unisys Corporation as an officer and Corporate Senior Vice President. He also had an operational leadership role [...]

As President Obama looks to the best options to defeat the insurgency in Afghanistan, maybe he should consider some of the insights offered in Dr. John Nagl’s book, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam. Dr. Nagl, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm and the current Iraq war, examines [...]

As we near the holidays, busy executives look forward to relaxing with family  and enjoying mouthwatering feasts.  However, we start dreading the accompanying weight gain and may enter a cycle of skipping meals to cut calories.  Then there are those days where an overly busy schedule means missed meals. While most executives are aware that [...]

An unlikely power couple has emerged on the clean energy stage. And it’s been suggested that lawmakers take notice. In a recent New York Times article, Texas and California were highlighted as important policy laboratories on the cutting edge of alternative energy in the absence of sustained federal action to support such efforts to fight [...]

As executives, you’ve heard it before.  Sodas, aka Pop, are bad for you.  They contain excessive calories leading to obesity, sugars and acids that rot your teeth and phosphorus which can deplete your bones of calcium. Diet sodas aren’t much healthier either.  Artificial sweeteners are under scrutiny, and as with regular sodas, caffeine is an [...]

While in-sourcing might make some in the government contracting community nervous, the great tribulation expected by the private sector hasn’t hit as hard as some noted industry watchers had anticipated.  But recent review of OMB activity shows there is definite cause for concern. Many large contractors were worried recently over a pair of OMB memos [...]

Americans have been becoming increasingly and exponentially obese and overweight since the mid-1980s. While many debate where responsibility for the problem lies, as the gateway to chronic illness such as diabetes and heart disease, it continues to be a driver of costs in both private and public insurance. The problem must be addressed on a [...]