Katie Arrington Offers Updates on Pentagon’s CMMC Program Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for acquisition with DoD and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, elaborated to Government Matters during an interview about the creation of standards that third-party assessment organizations will use to evaluate and certify contractors under DoD’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program. …

Accenture has acquired Yesler, a business-to-business (B2B) marketing services agency that helps many of the world’s leading brands run their global marketing programs and operations at speed and scale, the company announced on Thursday. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Accenture's (NYSE: ACN) federal arm has won a potential seven-year, $201M task order help the Transportation Security Administration's technology solutions division consolidate and maintain credentialing systems, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Wednesday. The report said Accenture Federal Services bested one other vendor for the task order under the General Services Administration's Alliant 2 contract vehicle.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has finalized its acquisition of Sierra-Cedar’s Salesforce, Workday and U.S. Mulesoft practices for an undisclosed amount.

Jim Garrettson, founder and CEO of Executive Mosaic, presented John Goodman, chief executive of Accenture Federal Services, his third consecutive Wash100 Award as part of the 2020 selection on Tuesday. 

Margaret Weichert, deputy director for management at the Office of Management and Budget, will step down from her role in March to join Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) commercial practice, Federal News Network reported Friday.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Sierra-Cedar’s Workday, U.S. Mulesoft and Salesforce practices for an undisclosed sum in a push to expand its offerings to government and higher education organizations seeking to update their core operations and software for finance, accounting, human resources and student services.

George Batsakis, former defense portfolio lead at Accenture's (NYSE: ACM) federal business, has joined information technology provider 1901 Group as executive vice president and chief strategy officer.

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to purchase Symantec’s cybersecurity services business from Broadcom (Nasdaq: AVGO) for an undisclosed sum.

Tim Irvine, formerly head of design for the North America sector at Fjord, has been appointed to lead Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal digital studio in Washington, D.C., Technical.ly reported Friday.