The Department of the Interior has selected seven companies for a potential 10-year, $2 billion follow-on contract for cloud license and support services. The awardees under the Foundation Cloud Hosting Services 2 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract are Accenture Federal Services, IBM (NYSE: IBM), CGI Federal, Cognosante, Science Applic...
Accenture Federal Services has closed its purchase of Cognosante and launched a federal health portfolio to bring specialized mission platforms and services to customers to help them deliver better health outcomes. Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm said Monday more than 1,500 Cognosante employees will join the company’s workforce as a result o...
Arnab Chakraborty has assumed the newly created role of chief responsible AI officer at Accenture (NYSE: ACN), where he previously served as senior managing director for data and artificial intelligence. The company said Tuesday Chakraborty’s appointment aligns with Accenture’s efforts to expand its responsible AI capabilities, products ...
Accenture Federal Services CEO John Goodman received his 2024 Wash100 Award during a meeting with Jim Garrettson, CEO of Executive Mosaic and founder of the government contracting industry recognition, which yearly honors the 100 most influential and impactful leaders who have contributed to the growth of the federal government marketplace. 2024 mar...
Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services subsidiary has secured a potential three-year, $127 million contract to help the U.S. Army modernize and migrate the service branch’s large-scale applications to the cloud. The company said Monday it will assess Army applications and build a migration and modernization approach to transition appli...
Government technology company Raft has appointed GovCon industry veteran Mark Procaccini as senior vice president of operations. The company said Tuesday Procaccini will bring his years of experience in mergers and acquisitions, contracting, private equity and integration to this newly created position, where he will help scale operations to support...
Crystal Hair, a cloud strategist with nearly two decades of industry experience, has been named chief technology officer at A-TEK, a McLean, Virginia-headquartered provider of information technology services to government agencies. Hair will drive digital and technical strategies, oversee the implementation of the company’s digital road map an...
Accenture Federal Services has agreed to purchase federal digital transformation and cloud modernization platforms provider Cognosante for an undisclosed sum. Since 2008, Cognosante has been providing cloud migration support, program management and technology platforms for federal health care programs supporting veterans, active-duty personnel, prov...
Eight companies have secured a $750 million ceiling increase modification under a U.S. Air Force contract to continue providing advisory and assistance services to help the service branch’s deputy leadership manage and improve enterprise-level strategic transformation initiatives. The modification brings the total value of the Air Force Strate...
Christopher Copeland, a technology industry executive, has been appointed chief digital officer at Herndon, Virginia-based defense tech services contractor ManTech. In this capacity, he will oversee ManTech’s strategic approach to delivering digital transformation initiatives in support of U.S. defense, intelligence and federal civilian agency cus...
