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In the U.S. Army’s pursuit of bold, enterprise-wide modernization, the service’s leaders are increasingly focusing on software acquisition reform and looking to industry for help. Department of Defense officials and federal representatives have been vocal in recent years about the Army’s acquisition process, which is widely seen as bureaucrati...
Hiten Chadha, former global senior practice leader for Amazon Web Services’ federal financial practice, has joined Cherokee Federal as vice president and technology practice leader. He will oversee the development and implementation of information technology offerings for the federal government in his new position, the Cherokee Nation Businesses d...
In the U.S. Army’s modernization journey, the cloud is playing an increasingly important role. Army CIO Raj Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said that in the future fight, data will be the Army’s ammunition, and the cloud will serve as the next warfighting platform. Although the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Aug. 1, 2022 — Dave Levy, vice president of U.S. federal government, nonprofit and healthcare at Amazon Web Services and previous Wash100 Award recipient, has shared during an interview how the company is helping address information technology workforce gaps through cloud computing skills training and government-focused educatio...
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...
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 ...
Technology investment firm The Acacia Group has acquired The Baer Group, which provides tech consulting and services to customers in public and private sectors, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to address the increasing shortage of technical talent needed to support digital transformation efforts of government and industry clients. “We se...
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...
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...
