David Appel, formerly vice president of national security at Amazon Web Services, has been appointed VP of U.S. federal at the Seattle, Washington-headquartered cloud computing company, G2xchange Defense reported Sunday. Appel helps drive the development of artificial intelligence and modern software tools to support decision-making in the military ...
Lathan Turner, a more than two-decade military and business leader, has joined public-benefit software company Second Front Systems as executive vice president of global public sector. Turner will be responsible for managing Second Front’s business unit focused on serving U.S. and international government customers, driving revenue growth and ...
Rahul Thakkar, a former Amazon Web Services managing director, has been named president of BAE Systems‘ Bohemia Interactive Simulations subsidiary. Thakkar will oversee the day-to-day operations of the military training and simulation software developer and explore potential market opportunities for the business, BISim said Tuesday. He previou...
John Newman, former senior account executive of federal financials at Amazon Web Services, has joined Parasoft as senior vice president of the software testing automation company’s aerospace and government solutions division. He will oversee efforts to build strategic partnerships to help customers adopt artificial intelligence-based tools for...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will help the Department of the Treasury migrate to a multicloud information technology environment under a $1.3 billion contract. SAIC said Thursday the single-source award includes professional IT support for the Treasury to centralize the management of cloud services from Amazon Web Services, ...
Amazon Web Services announced Monday that it has teamed up with Constellation Research to publish a report in aid of public sector chief information officers who are managing their organizations’ digital assets. “The CIO Imperative for Digital Assets in the Public Sector” report includes recommendations on how to select and implement tools...
NASA is looking to consolidate contracts for acquiring cloud services from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google into a single reseller delivery order worth potentially $685.8 million. The consolidated order for agency-wide cloud services will be open to small business resellers capable of providing access to all three cloud service providers un...
Tom Lash, a three-decade federal technology market veteran, has been named CEO of Annapolis Junction, Maryland-based IT contractor Meadowgate Technologies. He will be responsible for aligning the company’s strategy with the demand for system architectures and support services within the national security sector, Meadowgate said Monday. With La...
In the most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Liz Martin, director of the Department of Defense business at Amazon Web Services, to discuss how artificial intelligence and machine learning could enhance decision making for the DOD. She also talked about AWS’ efforts to help organizations address cybersecurity threat...
Gabriele Masili, former chief digital and technology officer of customer experience and success at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been named chief customer officer at citizen engagement software provider Granicus. Masili has 25 years of technology industry experience that included support to hundreds of millions of customers globally, Granicus said T...
