IT consulting firm CloudWave has appointed Doug Lane, a technology executive and a three-time Wash100 awardee, as a strategic advisor to help the company expand its partner ecosystem and refine its go-to-market strategy. Virginia-based CloudWave said Tuesday Lane will help drive growth and innovation and support its mission of delivering agile, inte...
SpyCloud has appointed Brad Rouse, a technology sales leader, as chief revenue officer. The company said Thursday Rouse will oversee enterprise and federal sales teams, partnerships and customer success groups worldwide as SpyCloud advances go-to-market initiatives to address the increasing demand for proactive threat remediation platforms. He will ...
Chris Smith, vice president and general manager of North America Public Sector at Red Hat, has been presented with the 2025 Wash100 Award during a recent visit by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Smith won his first Wash100 Award in recognition of his efforts in promoting the use of open-source software in the public sector....
Xcelerate Solutions has appointed Donald Ross as executive vice president of growth for Homeland Security and State Department. The defense and national security company said Tuesday Ross will leverage his three decades of experience in the transportation and security sectors to fulfill his new responsibilities of driving the expansion of Xcelarate&...
The Department of Homeland Security has announced that the agency will recompete its Risk Analysis, Planning & Information Directorate, or RAPID, IT operations and maintenance support contract valued at $100 million. In a notice posted online Wednesday, DHS said a blanket purchase agreement contract will be awarded for the required services.&nbs...
By Aparna Achanta, Principal Security Lead, IBM Shadow software-as-a-service refers to unauthorized cloud applications used within an organization. Shadow SaaS is a challenge in modern IT governance. IT teams lack oversight and monitoring of unapproved applications making it difficult to effectively govern shadow SaaS. A recent NextDLP survey o...
Juliane Gallina is a rare kind of intelligence community official. Her résumé contains experience that covers all bases: private sector, military and federal agency, and Gallina, who now serves as deputy director for digital intelligence at the CIA, uses this multi-industry fluency to speak to different audiences about the agency’s prioriti...
The General Services Administration has awarded nine companies positions on a potential 10-year, $920 million blanket purchase agreement to acquire supply chain risk illumination tools and analytic support services. GSA announced the selected vendors for the Supply Chain Risk Illumination Professional Tools and Services, or SCRIPTS, BPA through awar...
Tony Encinias, formerly of Atos, shared on LinkedIn Tuesday that he has been appointed chief technology officer for government services at Peraton. Career Highlights The seasoned executive most recently served as CTO for public sector and defense in North America at Atos. He was also the chief strategy and innovation officer for the s...
The Senate on Thursday voted 53-43 to confirm Troy Edgar, most recently an IBM executive, as deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. Kristi Noem, secretary of DHS and a 2025 Wash100 awardee, congratulated Edgar on his confirmation. “I look forward to working alongside Troy to ensure that the United States, once again, is...
