Christian Hoff, formerly director of the federal systems integrator and solutions team at Amazon Web Services, has taken on a new role as director of AWS’ federal civilian and health group. The retired Army lieutenant colonel joined the cloud provider in 2018 after a more than 10-year career at Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE: BAH). Hoff...
Amazon’s (NYSE: AMZN) cloud computing business has appointed Jeffrey Kratz, a nine-year Amazon Web Services veteran, as general manager of its worldwide public sector partner program, CRN reported Monday. Kratz previously served as the company’s GM and regional head of public sector partner sales in Latin America, Canada and the Caribbean, a...
Stefanie Lehmann, most recently a senior vice president at Atlas Research, has joined Prometheus Federal Services as chief operating officer, FedHealthIT reported Monday. Her professional experience covers business and strategy development, program management, cybersecurity, information assurance and privacy compliance. Lehmann initially worked at A...
General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology unit has secured a $190 million contract to help the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office adopt cloud-based information technology infrastructure. The company said Wednesday its GDIT business will provide USPTO a hybrid computing platform intended to give agency users access to multiple cloud ser...
Baird is scheduled to hold its Government and Defense Conference on Nov. 17, a hybrid in-person and virtual event that will feature presentations from the GovCon community. The annual conference involves discussions of industry trends and market outlook and offers a networking opportunity for leaders from the worlds of business and government. Prese...
The Government Accountability Office decided to sustain Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) protest of a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract that the National Security Agency awarded to Amazon Web Services in July, Nextgov reported Friday. “GAO found certain aspects of the agency’s evaluation to be unreasonable and, in light thereof, recomme...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Oct. 18, 2021 — Dave Levy, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ government, nonprofit and healthcare business, noted the cloud infrastructure innovation milestones the company has achieved since its AWS GovCloud (US) platform was launched in 2011, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 29. “One of our earliest customers was NASAâ...
Chuck Brooks, a highly esteemed leader to the cybersecurity and government contracting (GovCon) sectors as well as an influential member of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program, has released his latest article with the program. Previously, GovCon Expert Chuck Brooks assessed the growing importance of chief data officers to the federal landscap...
Amazon Web Services has won a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract from the National Security Agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. According to the report, the contract awarded to Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud subsidiary appears to be part of the NSA’s effort to update its GovCloud platform, the intelligence community’s classified data ...
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has launched a new initiative to drive the development and execution of cyber defense operations plans in partnership with the private sector, federal interagency and state, local, tribal, territorial government stakeholders. The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative is aimed at reducing cyber inciden...
