Virtual networking giant ​Brocade has promoted its CTO Phil O'Reilly to be vice president of federal sales — leading the firm's efforts to sell to the Defense Department, intelligence agencies and U.S. civilian government.

To get started, "you need to develop expertise in-house and foster champions for the new technology," a Brocade VP said.

Jeff Castro, IT portfolio manager for the U.S. Marine Corps, spoke at Brocade's Federal Forum along with Selina Lo of Ruckus Wireless.

Networking solutions firm Brocade announced a multi-year strategic partnership with defense IT contractor Harris Tuesday, and unveiled a prototype of the first fruit of the new alliance — a "cyber maneuver engine" designed to conceal data and network architecture from hackers who may get into a system

​AT&T​ has named Anthony Robbins its vice president for global defense on its public sector solutions team.

Deputy CIO Margie Graves talked to FedScoop about how the Department of Homeland Security plans to do more with less.