President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to protect federal networks from cyber threats and improve U.S. cybersecurity in response to recent hacks involving SolarWinds, Microsoft Exchange and Colonial Pipeline. The order will eliminate barriers to sharing of threat information between the government and the private sector, modernize federal...
Siemens‘ federal arm has received a $60 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force implement energy-efficient systems at Dyess AF Base in Texas, as part of a two-decade energy savings performance contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Siemens Government Technologies said Monday it will modernize cooling, heating, lighting and water...
Nicholas Speece of Snowflake (NYSE: SNOW) and Vishal Kapur of Deloitte Consulting said government agencies need a modern data architecture that uses cloud and artificial intelligence to facilitate data management and help glean insights from large volumes of data and unstructured content. Snowflake has combined its Data Cloud and collaboration platf...
Anto Tossounian of ServiceNow (NYSE: NOW) and Brian Fogg of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business said their companies have partnered to help government agencies deliver digital services as part of efforts to modernize the customer experience. “Through our partnership, we can offer advanced cloud-based managed services for...
Ben Cushing of Red Hat and Shane McNamee of Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) said their companies have teamed up to come up with an open standards, open-source technology-based system that is built around patients and meant to help health care providers eliminate barriers to delivering medical care to patients. Cushing and McNamee discussed HealthConcours...
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Lauren Knausenberger, chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, which marks the first time she has received the most coveted and prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon). Knausenberger has been recognized as one of the most significant execut...
Executive Mosaic is thrilled to announce that Dave Spirk, chief data officer for Department of Defense (DOD), has been named a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award for leading DOD’s new data strategy, advancing the department’s principles to adapt its data culture to support U.S. warfighters and military capabilities. With this honor, Spirk has r...
Chief information officers (CIO) have recently spearheaded several new initiatives in both the public and private sectors. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated CIOs’ need to increase the speed of change in the technology landscape. Modernizing cyber, artificial intelligence (AI), cloud, information technology (IT), data, and machine lea...
The Department of the Interior plans to award a potential 10-year, $250 million contract to Accenture‘s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm for services in support of an automated information system used by the Office of Natural Resources Revenue to collect, verify and distribute mineral revenues to stakeholders. DOI said in an award notice published Wedn...
The innovative use of artificial intelligence (AI) has greatly advanced emerging technology that will dramatically change elements of the defense, security and intelligence apparatus across federal and industry sectors. AI will also play a crucial role on, near and above the future battlefields of our time. During Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd...
