The Department of Defense indicated in court documents filed Friday that it is preparing for more months of litigation over a contract protest filed by Amazon Web Services challenging the award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Federal News Network reported. DOD, Microsoft and AWS sa...
During a recent visit to Amazon Web Services, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented Dave Levy, vice president of Amazon Web Services‘ (AWS) federal business, with his 2021 Wash100 Award for continuing focus on cloud efforts, cyber and driving the development of emerging technology capabilities across the federal sector. “Dave Levy is wel...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 12, 2021 — Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) was awarded Amazon Web Services’ Managed Service Provider Partner Program designation that recognized the former’s delivery of AWS cloud services to government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported April 30. “We are proud to be further recognized for our expertise in leveraging next...
U.S. technology providers have formed an alliance that calls on Congress to authorize a $50 billion federal budget for research and manufacturing investments within the semiconductor industry. The Semiconductors in America Coalition said Tuesday it aims to drive the implementation of federal policies that support chip market growth and urged lawmake...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 10, 2021 — Amazon Web Services has designated ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT) two competencies for the latter’s work to help government clients manage cloud technology and infrastructure deployments, ExecutiveBiz reported April 23. Srini Iyer, chief technology officer of ManTech and head of the company’s innovat...
Verizon (NYSE: VZ) has promoted Jennifer Chronis, a 2021 Wash100 Award recipient with over 25 years of experience in digital transformation, to the role of senior vice president of its public sector business from her most recent post at the company as VP of federal. The company said Wednesday Chronis will now be responsible for...
Israel named Amazon Web Services and Google as the winners of a multiyear, $1.2 billion project to establish governmentwide data center infrastructure for cloud computing services, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The two companies will help Israeli public-sector and defense agencies build domestic repositories of sensitive data under Project ...
Max Peterson, vice president of international sales for worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, has been appointed as VP of worldwide public sector unit at AWS, The Economic Times reported Saturday. He will succeed Teresa Carlson, a six-time Wash100 Award recipient who will join Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) as president and chief growth officer. Pe...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 12, 2021 — Brett McMillen, director of Amazon Web Services‘ federal business, said agencies are able to scale information technology systems to changing requirements with the help of cloud computing technology, ExecutiveBiz reported March 30. “The ability to scale both up and down is one of the benefits agencie...
Teresa Carlson, a more than 25-year cloud and data management industry executive, will officially assume the role of president and chief growth officer at Splunk (Nasdaq: SPLK) on April 19. Carlson, a six-time Wash100 Award recipient, will report to Splunk President and CEO Doug Merritt and will lead efforts to drive business transformation across g...
