TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 18, 2020 — Carahsoft Technology will help the Department of Defense, intelligence agencies and the U.S. Coast Guard procure Red Hat's OpenJDK software products and support services under an agency catalog agreement from DoD, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 2.

David Egts, director and chief technologist of the Red Hat’s North American public sector, will serve on the expert panel during Potomac Officers Club’s Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment Virtual Event on August 26th. Click here to register for the Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment Virtual Event.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 7, 2020 — The intelligence and space business of Raytheon Technologies (NYSE: RHX) has been named Red Hat's business transfomation partner of the year for a second time, ExecutiveBiz reported July 24.

David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, explained in a video interview posted Thursday on FedScoop how a multicloud portfolio approach to information technology helps accelerate digital transformation efforts in the federal government.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 10, 2020 — Red Hat has given Carasoft the software provider's Distribution Partner of the Year award for the North American public sector, ExecutiveBiz reported July 1.

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.