David Egts, chief technologist of the North America public sector at Red Hat, said the government could help accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence through the use of open-source tools and a "light-touch approach to regulating AI."

Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RTX) has teamed up with Red Hat and VMware (NYSE: VMW) to compete for the U.S. Army’s potential $957M contract vehicle for cyber training services in support of the Persistent Cyber Training Environment. The Cyber Training, Readiness, Integration, Delivery and Enterprise Technology contract seeks to support the management and evolution of PCTE, which will allow the military to conduct cyber training, mission rehearsals and exercises.

David Egts, chief technologist for the North American public sector business at Red Hat, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that agencies should have a safety plan in place for their cloud strategies to protect their organizations from high egress costs associated with transferring data and applications from one cloud platform to another.

Paul Cormier, formerly president of products and technologies at Red Hat, has been named president and CEO of the open source software provider. He succeeds Jim Whitehurst, who transitioned to new roles as chairman of Red Hat and president of its parent company, IBM (NYSE: IBM).

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 3, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of the North American public sector business at Red Hat, said adopting Agile principles such as the prioritization of important goals and increased coordination between officers can help improve an agency’s Federal Information Security Modernization Act scorecard ratings, ExecutiveBiz reported Monday.

Red Hat has promoted Tricia Fitzmaurice, who has more than two decades of government and commercial technology sales experience, as director of national security programs for the federal law enforcement and justice sector, Homeland Security Today reported Tuesday.

Red Hat has completed evaluation assurance level 4+ for the latest version of its JBoss enterprise application platform under the Common Criteria Certification program, which is meant to ensure compliance of information technology products with government security standards.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 17, 2019 — Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) embarked on a joint project to develop a cross-domain application that would support unclassified-level software development and accelerate classified environment deployment, ExecutiveBiz reported Nov. 14.

A Red Hat operating system offering has earned recertification that validates the platform's capacity to process sensitive information in line with National Institute of Standards and Technology requirements. Red Hat said Tuesday it renewed Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 cryptography certification for the Enterprise Linux 7.6 software.

Leidos Books Potential $1B FAA Flight Service Modernization Contract; Jim Moos Quoted Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) has landed a potential 15-year, $1 billion contract to update the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) digital flight briefing service with aeronautical and weather data as well as flight planning support features.  The Future Flight Services …