Google has launched a new division to help U.S. federal, local and state government agencies and educational institutions advance their digital transformation efforts and bring its Google Cloud technology platforms to public sector organizations. Will Grannis, head of the office of the chief technology officer at Google, will lead Google Public Sect...
ExecutiveBiz featured Allyson Fryhoff, managing director of nonprofits at Amazon Web Services, in a recent Executive Spotlight interview published Friday. She talked about the most significant modernization challenges facing nonprofits and how the company helps customers take advantage of cloud to support their efforts. Fryhoff also shared how AWS i...
Software startup Epsilon3 has secured $15 million in a round of Series A financing led by Lux Capital and will use the investment to expand its line of space project management platforms, SpaceNews reported Monday. Epsilon3 offers a web-based platform that offers collaboration tools customized for spacecraft manufacturing and operations and seeks to...
David Appel, most recently vice president of command and control digital solutions at Raytheon Technologies’ (NYSE: RTX) intelligence and space business, has joined Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing arm as VP of national security, GovCon Wire has learned. He announced his move to Amazon Web Services in a LinkedIn post published Sunday. In ...
Liz Martin, Department of Defense director at Amazon Web Services, underscored the U.S Army’s use of the AWS Cloud to create a tactical cloud environment envisioned to help with their data processing and resource scaling. In a blog posted Tuesday, Martin shared how the XVIII Airborne Corps– an Army data centric force headquartered at For...
The National Security Agency is shifting more and more of its core business and functions to commercial platforms as part of the agency’s larger modernization effort, officials say. Ryan Agee, technical director for NSA’s capabilities directorate, said the agency is currently running a data fusion and analytics environment called the IC GovCloud...
During a recent visit to Amazon Web Services (AWS) office, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented the first Wash100 Award, the most coveted and acclaimed award in all of government contracting (GovCon) to Max Peterson, vice president of AWS’ worldwide public sector business. Executive Mosaic, the leading provider in connecting, promoting an...
Chad Haferbier, vice president of multidomain operations solutions at Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said agencies seeking to advance modernization should transition to open-architecture, nonproprietary frameworks that “enable rapid, iterative improvements.” “Open architectures also enable agencies to prioritize interoperability and data sharing between...
Technology industry veterans Michael Miller, Jim Keenan, Anna Levine and Cindy Brent have joined Red Hat’s public sector team as the software provider focuses on helping government customers navigate their transition to hybrid and multicloud environments. Miller, formerly head of the federal team at Veeam Government Solutions, has been named vice ...
The National Security Agency has decided to re-award a potential 10-year, $10 billion cloud computing contract to Amazon Web Services after a reevaluation of bid submissions based on the best value sourcing method, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. AWS originally won the single-award “WildandStormy” contract in July 2021 following a two...
