Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s federal arm and a four-time Wash100 awardee, was featured in the most recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz on Wednesday. He talked about the company’s cybersecurity investment and FastTrack program support, the Digital Defense Report results and other Microsoft efforts to develop it...
Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of Information Solutions with Deltek and 2021 Wash100 Award recipient, published his latest article as a part of Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert program on Thursday. Previously, GovCon Expert Kevin Plexico discussed the major improvements that government contractors and their respective organizations have m...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer of Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal business, said agencies should reassess how they field and manage multicloud and hybrid information technology environments and one of the things they should consider is having a comprehensive, coherent security model that looks at the applications’ entire lifecyc...
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has appointed Vanessa Godshalk as strategy and consulting practice lead and named Kristen Vaughan as operations growth platform lead within the company’s federal services business. Godshalk and Vaughan will help Accenture Federal Services to drive business growth and create value for its clients, AFS said Friday...
While the world continues to navigate the “new normal” brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, another inevitable environmental concern that can cause droughts, among other challenges, is emerging. But scientists say mitigation measures can still help reduce its severity and damages. Notwithstanding the future levels of greenhouse gas em...
Bluestone Investment Partners has invested in cBEYONData, a professional services company that primarily offers business process automation, data management and analytics support to government chief financial officers. “With this investment, we have the additional resources necessary to expand our product offerings and deliver on the evolving need...
Contegix has acquired Ascend Integrated in a move to expand the former’s DevOps service and offer new information technology services in the public sector market. Washington, D.C.-based Ascend Integrated holds an Atlassian Gold Partner status and specializes in IT Agile, system implementation and DevOps services, Contegix said Wednesday. The c...
Martin Mackes, former chief delivery officer of Avantus Federal, has been appointed to the same position at woman-owned company Jefferson Consulting Group. The more than 25-year government services industry veteran will be responsible for overseeing delivery teams, contracts, information technology, human resources and recruitment functions in his n...
In its most recent Executive Spotlight interview, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Bill Harrod, federal chief technology officer for Ivanti, about how the company’s recent acquisitions have impacted the development of ransomware and cyber threat solutions, the challenges of merging company cultures and advancing zero-trust architecture. Here’s an excerpt...
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...
