The Immigration and Naturalization Service this month announced that it approved 163,200 H-1B visa applications against the 195,000 cap for fiscal 2001, which ended Sept. 30. U.S. employers file the applications for skilled foreign workers, many of whom have in-demand technology skills.
With the demand for cybersecurity professionals outstripping supply, high-tech companies and government agencies are using innovative programs to recruit and train workers with specialized skills in information security.
The 10th Annual ODU/TASC/TGIC Government Contracting Symposium, "E volution in Government Business," sponsored by Defense Acquisition University and Resource Consultants Inc., will be held from 7 a.m. - 5 p.m. at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott Hotel, Norfolk, Va.
Information technology contractors say it is becoming increasingly difficult to fill job openings that require high-level government security clearances, despite a flood of new applicants.
LexTech Inc., Lexington, Ky., named John Groft as director of business development for its GEM division. The company sells IT-related products and services.
Turbulence in the information technology industry is reflected in a new survey of compensation trends at technology firms, which shows executives' annual bonuses shrinking this year while many rank-and-file employees garner healthy pay hikes.
Sitting under hot, bright lights, Kevin Blakeman carefully answered probing questions about SurfControl Inc., where he serves as president of U.S. operations. A camera peered over the shoulder of the interviewer sitting opposite him. Was that a bead of sweat on his forehead?
Carol Sauder, a program manager for systems integrator Unisys Corp. of Blue Bell, Pa., has lost two of 39 employees in her unit to the call-up of National Guard and armed forces reservists, and faces the loss of 10 more.
It has been nearly a month since the world stopped and stood transfixed before televisions, radios and news Web sites, watching two jetliners destroy New York's World Trade Center, then another smash into the Pentagon. More than 6,000 people died.
Sprint Corp. recently made life a little brighter for the elderly and disabled residents of an Alexandria, Va., apartment building. The building's common areas hadn't been painted in eight years, and its nonprofit management firm didn't have adequate funds to fix it up.
Carrier Access Corp., a Boulder, Colo., equipment manufacturer, appointed David Gardiner to sales director of Canada. He will be responsible for managing the company's sales of its telecommunications equipment to carriers in Canada. He was previously with Adtran Canada.
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When KPMG Consulting Inc. began training its consultants in the principles and practices of e-business in 1999, the firm's leaders decided the best way to do that was to "walk the walk" by providing the training electronically, said Jim Eldracher, a senior manager with the firm's Learning Solutions practice.
When the 1,000 freshmen at the University of South Dakota in Vermillion arrived on campus late last month, each received a Palm Inc. handheld computer along with orientation information.
