Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal services business has secured an $87 million contract to help the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office update information technology applications that support the agency’s trademark filing and registration process. Accenture Federal Services will assist the USPTO Office of the Chief Information Officer in efforts ...
David Egts, chief technologist and senior director of the Office of the Chief Technologist for Red Hat’s North America Public Sector, has published his first article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. In his first piece, GovCon Expert David Egts provided a breakdown looking into the impact that the COVID-19 pand...
Rohit Dhanda, vice president of federal at H2O.ai, said agencies should properly communicate and explain the outcome of an artificial intelligence model by adhering to ethical standards for responsible AI. The Department of Defense’s new AI memo highlights the importance of ensuring that AI technology is reliable, governable and traceable, Dhanda ...
Marion Ticknor, a government services industry veteran with more than two decades of human resources experience, has been appointed chief people officer of Bethesda, Maryland-based digital technology services provider DMI. Her appointment takes effect Jan. 3 and she will be responsible for ensuring DMI’s organizational culture can adapt to evo...
The government contracting industry offers one of the best growth opportunities, whether you run a small business or a large enterprise. Each year, the federal government mobilizes its GovCon community to assist it in bolstering the U.S.’ different key sectors. Over $600 billion worth of federal government contracts were awarded to support the...
Margaret Amori, Inception lead for public sector at NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA), said the company works to help the federal government adopt artificial intelligence in five areas and one of those is through graphic processing units and other platforms that NVIDIA offers for AI development and deployment. Amori wrote that one of those platforms is the ...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Dec. 13, 2021 — Stephen Kovac, chief compliance officer and head of global government affairs at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), discussed during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee roundtable how government agencies were able to move to cloud amid the COVID-19 pandemic with the help from the Federal Risk and Aut...
Bill Becker, vice president of product management at Thales Trusted Cyber Technologies, said agencies seeking to protect data should recognize the importance of user authentication. Becker wrote that agencies should consider raising the required authentication level as users seek to gain access to higher-level data and applications. “The key is to...
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has urged Congress to fully fund the government for fiscal year 2022 because he believes a long-term continuing resolution will have a significant impact on key programs at the Department of Defense. Austin, a 2021 Wash100 awardee, made the statement Monday after President Biden approved stopgap measure to maintain age...
Jay Jones, a retired U.S. Army colonel who supported the service’s Information Systems Software Center, has joined HighPoint as chief growth officer, responsible for spearheading efforts to expand the presence of the company’s digital services in the federal market. Jones’ military career includes work for the Office of the Directorate...
