Matt Preschern, formerly senior vice president of marketing at CA Technologies, has joined Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity firm Forcepoint as chief marketing officer. He will report to Forcepoint CEO Matthew Moynahan and oversee the company’s sales enablement, revenue generation, brand awareness and other global marketing initiatives, the company said Tuesday. Moynahan …

Barbie Bigelow, formerly senior vice president and chief information officer of  Jacobs Engineering Group (NYSE: JEC), has been appointed CIO at engineering, construction and consulting services contractor Black & Veatch. She will oversee Black & Veatch’s digital strategy and information technology group that offers tools and technology platforms needed to build …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 13, 2018 — Deloitte will work with the Montana, Ohio, Virginia and Wyoming state governments to deploy a cloud-based information technology platform designed to integrate modular Medicaid enterprise systems, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday its HealthInteractive Platform is built on IBM Cloud and features predefined application programming interfaces and …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 6, 2018 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) will officially establish a new integrated marketing, technology and communications business in 2019 under the leadership of John Armstrong, a former general manager of IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) design and digital consultancy who recently joined ICF Olson, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. Armstrong …

The Interior Department has selected IBM (NYSE: IBM), Deloitte and Summit2Sea Consulting to provide Oracle Federal Financials accounting system support for the agency’s Financial Management Line of Business program. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says IBM and Deloitte’s consulting business will compete for up to $120M in task orders under …

The U.S. Army has revealed a new roster of industry partners under a potential $37.4B contract that covers knowledge-based professional engineering support services to command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs. The Army Contracting Command received 388 bids for the Responsive Strategic Sourcing for Service procurement vehicle via …

Google has dropped plans to compete for the Defense Department’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract, Federal News Network reported Monday. “We couldn’t be assured that it would be aligned with our artificial intelligence (AI) principles,” Aileen Black, an executive director at Google, said of the JEDI contract. …

Tom Reilly, CEO of Cloudera (NYSE: CLDR), told CNBC in an interview that aired Friday the proposed merger of the Palo Alto, Calif.-based software firm with Hortonworks (Nasdaq: HDP) will create a new company that will deliver software across all major cloud service providers. “We work on Amazon, Microsoft, Google, the IBM Cloud, …

The Food and Drug Administration has awarded four companies contracts worth up to $75M each to develop automated methods for reporting adverse drug events. IBM (NYSE: IBM), Acumen, Dovel Technologies and IQVIA Government Solutions will use artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing and other automation techniques to create data collection and analysis systems …

Tina Dolph, a more than two-decade government industry veteran, has been named president and CEO of Siemens’ U.S. federal arm in a move that takes effect Oct. 1. “Tina’s depth of understanding in government finance, strategy and operations aligns perfectly to SGT’s continued growth,” Anne Altman, board chairman at Siemens …