A global health crisis is what it took for agencies under the Department of Defense to consider adopting a unified enterprise that can support centralized systems for email and office applications. Danielle Metz, deputy CIO for information enterprise at the DOD, said in a June 1 interview with Federal News Network that the experience of...
A joint venture of Goldschmitt & Associates and Central Research Inc. will continue to maintain, enhance and operate the Small Business Administration’s software-as-a-service platform for the Paycheck Protection Program and provide call center support under a potential 12-month, $136.4 million contract with SBA. SBA conducted a market research...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has selected 18 technology companies to help design and demonstrate various approaches to implementing zero trust architectures. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NCCoE said Thursday it will work with the companies to design and field architectures based on the concepts ...
Jeff Carson, an Amazon Web Services partner network ambassador, has been named vice president of public sector technology at managed cloud services provider Effectual. Carson will lead a team of Effectual solution architects responsible for developing technology modernization services designed for government customers, the company said Tuesday. His ...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled its plan to acquire Bethesda, Maryland-based BoxBoat Technologies, a consulting company that specializes in DevOps and Kubernetes container orchestration, in a push to further expand Big Blue’s hybrid cloud services business. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and IBM said Thursday it expects to close t...
John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said the recently announced replacement to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contracting program is planned to leverage direct awards to multiple vendors of enterprise cloud services, DOD News reported Wednesday. The initial awards under the Joint Warfightin...
The Department of Defense decided to end the prolonged court battle over the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure program by dropping the JEDI cloud contract and announced plans to launch a new procurement effort to meet its cloud computing requirements. DOD said Tuesday the decision was due to a more mature cloud conversancy, industry advancemen...
Recently named senior vice president of Verizon’s public sector business Jennifer Chronis, was presented her first Wash100 Award, the most coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson for driving technology offerings, expanding revenue and partnering with industry leaders to drive digital transfor...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 21, 2021 — Dave Levy, vice president of U.S. government, nonprofit and health care businesses at Amazon Web Services and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said government agencies looking to implement zero trust frameworks and strengthen data privacy and security could use the cloud to support their pursuits of the mentioned...
Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft, was presented his 2021 Wash100 Award on Wednesday, the seventh time he’s received the most prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon), by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to Carahsoft’s office. “Craig has a formula that works and is a measurement fanatic. Abod follow...
