Charles Lyons-Burt

Washington, D.C., United States

Staff Writer at Slant Magazine

Writer at Spectrum Culture

Staff Writer & Junior Editor at ExecutiveGov

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Articles

Carahsoft’s Steve Jacyna on Shifting Cyber Mandates & Recent Trends

2 days ago | executivebiz.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

As director of innovative cybersecurity solutions for Carahsoft, Steve Jacyna stays agile to the biggest cyber threats to government organizations, as well as the latest cyber innovations that protect against them. His dual goals are to help cyber vendors understand agencies’ unique needs and to assist agencies in identifying the technologies that will safeguard their sensitive data.
An Integrated IT Infrastructure Guide for Government Contractors

2 days ago | executivebiz.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

Government contractors are under increasing pressure to modernize agencies’ IT infrastructures while meeting strict compliance requirements and maintaining operational efficiency. Outmoded legacy systems, siloed data and inconsistent modernization efforts make it challenging for these organizations to keep up with today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape.
How Smarter Resource Management Sets GovCons Up for Success

3 days ago | govconwire.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

Government contractors face mounting pressure to deliver more with less. With increasingly complex requirements and shrinking margins for error, resource management has become more than a strategic function. It's now an operational necessity. But many companies still operate with fragmented systems, reactive planning, and limited visibility into their people and projects. That creates bottlenecks, overspending and burnout.
How to Transition From Public Service to the Private Sector

1 week ago | executivegov.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

By Evan Scott, president, ESGI-Potomac RecruitingNot long after I began my career as an executive search professional for federal contractors 35 years ago, I started to notice an unfortunate trend: People who have served in the U.S. government or military are often unprepared to begin a second career in the private sector. And that seems to have nothing to do with how successful they have been in their public service careers or how capable they are at what they do.
Boosting Cyber Resilience Efficiency: The Role of Agile Delivery Methodologies

2 weeks ago | executivebiz.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

By Ryan McCullough, executive vice president and chief strategy officer, ShorePointFederal agencies and industry face an escalating cybersecurity challenge: threats are growing more sophisticated, security requirements are evolving rapidly, and agencies must stay responsive to emerging risks while maintaining progress toward cyber modernization. At the same time, leaders must strategically allocate resources to the highest-priority initiatives to maximize agility and efficiency.
Learn From CIO Jane Rathbun How Navy Is Spending Its $12B IT Budget

2 weeks ago | govconwire.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

Potomac Officers Club is honored to announce Jane Rathbun, chief information officer of the Department of the Navy, as a distinguished keynote speaker for the highly anticipated 2025 Digital Transformation Summit. Scheduled for April 24 at the Hilton-McLean in McLean, Virginia, the event brings together prominent government and industry leaders to examine how technology drives innovation and operational evolution in the public sector.
Terry Nihart Shares the Values & Culture That Drive Chenega Corporation

2 weeks ago | executivebiz.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

Terry Nihart has a strong background in U.S. military service, having completed stints as an action officer in the Army’s Directorate of Operations, a battalion commander for the Commander of the Army’s only airborne military police battalion and as chief of operations in the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command. For the last half-decade, Nihart has found consonance for his disciplined military training with the integrity, “dedication” and wisdom of the Chenega Corporation.
CIA Tech Leader to Bring Insights to Potomac Officers Club Stage

3 weeks ago | govconwire.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

Juliane Gallina is a rare kind of intelligence community official. Her résumé contains experience that covers all bases: private sector, military and federal agency, and , who now serves as deputy director for digital intelligence at the CIA, uses this multi-industry fluency to speak to different audiences about the agency's priorities.
The Risk of Shadow IT in Federal Agencies

3 weeks ago | govconwire.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

Shadow software-as-a-service refers to unauthorized cloud applications used within an organization. Shadow SaaS is a challenge in modern IT governance. IT teams lack oversight and monitoring of unapproved applications making it difficult to effectively govern shadow SaaS. A recent NextDLP survey of 250 security professionals found that 73 perecent had used unapproved tools. Shadow generative AI, or genAI, is another major concern for federal organizations now.
Grand Tour - Spectrum Culture

3 weeks ago | spectrumculture.com | Charles Lyons-Burt

Miguel Gomes is one of the more inventive directors in world cinema. He also proves how much a great artist can do with a small budget. Gomes’s last two projects encapsulate this well: a vivid, expansive three-part Arabian Nights adaptation from the mid-2010s and a Covid-era trifle called The Tsugua Diaries whose lark-ish form — a movie about its own making, shot with clearly limited resources — was used as an asset rather than treated as a setback.