ExecutiveBiz: Who are some of your biggest clients? Will Dantzler: We came out in 1999, as one of the first companies to offer a web based time and attendance product under the software as a service model called “easyTIMESHEET”.  We wanted to build for the company a tripod of businesses for our stability, so that [...]

We recently spoke to Will Dantzler, CEO of NetBase Corporation.  Here’s what he told us about his background: Will Dantzler:  I started out life at four years old, as far back as I can remember, in the streets of South Korea. Right after the Korean War, there were lots of children who had been abandoned, [...]

A new bidder has entered the competition to build the Air Force’s KC-X mid-air refueling tanker, replacing Boeing’s aging KC-135 Stratotanker which has been in service since 1957. Earlier this month, Northrop Grumman announced that it would pull out of the bidding process, leaving Boeing the apparent winner of the contract, but the parent company [...]

GovCon Executive:  Can you tell me about MC Dean’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building initiatives? Bill Dean:  We’re an expert engineering firm.  Very few firms have the level of engineering expertise and technical expertise that we possess in the electrical arena.  I would say in what I would call the field [...]

Bill Dean, CEO of MC Dean, leads one of the largest electrical engineering firms that works with the federal government.  His company held the contract for the new Walter Reed National Army Medical Center and the contract for renovating the Pentagon.  He told GovCon Executive about his background in government contracting: Bill Dean:  I’m an [...]

The Department of Homeland Security has pulled the plug on $50 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funds for the “Virtual Border Fence,” meant to secure the U.S.’s border with Mexico.  The SBInet project would mesh security cameras, motion sensors, radar and other technologies into a high-tech detection system to defeat illegal border [...]

It’s been over a year since President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) into law.  One of its key components is a “Buy American” requirement, requiring domestic “iron, steel or manufactured goods” to be used in ARRA-funded projects (ARRA section 1605), which has proven to be a serious headache for integrators and [...]

The DoD issued a new policy last week that allows military personnel to access social-media sites and other Web 2.0 applications from nonclassified government computers, so long as they don’t discuss classified information, according to ExecutiveGov. “This directive recognizes the importance of balancing appropriate security measures while maximizing the capabilities afforded by 21st-century Internet tools,” [...]

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday, saying that the ongoing campaign in Southern Afghanistan’s goal of reclaiming Marjah is the only the opening salvo in a larger initiative to crack the Taliban.  Flournoy is one of ExecutiveBiz’s Top 20 People to Watch in 2010. According [...]

Yesterday, the federal Health Technology Policy Committee met to proposed regulations on electronic health records (EHRs) by the Health and Human Services Department. The committee is in place to advise the Health and Human Services Department.  The Health and Human Services Department published the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on January 13th. In particular, the committee [...]