Kirk Grothe, former senior vice president for government services at Ventech Solutions, has been promoted to chief operating officer, FedHealthIT reported Friday. Grothe joined Ventech in April 2019 as VP for government solutions and joined the company’s SVP ranks two months later, according to his LinkedIn profile. He previously served as CEO...
Boeing (NYSE: BA) has secured a potential five-year, $625 million contract to update and maintain logistics information systems for the British military. The U.K. defense ministry said Thursday the company will support modernization work on LogIS software applications to provide the country’s service personnel a single technology platform for ...
The U.S. Army has awarded 17 companies positions on a potential $1.6 billion contract for commercial software, hardware and related incidental services. Army Contracting Command received 50 offers for the firm-fixed-price contract and will obligate funds upon award of each task order, the Department of Defense said Tuesday. The vendors will compete ...
Four former Internal Revenue Service officials have joined the citizen services team at Peraton to lead and support the company’s engagements with the agency. Julie Rushin, who previously served as deputy CIO for information technology at IRS, will be director of Peraton’s IRS portfolio, the company said Friday. Rushin brings 38 years of...
Google plans to compete for a three-year contract that replaces the Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing program and will be split across multiple cloud vendors, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The publication cited sources that say Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian met with DOD officials to talk ...
Jay Bokulic, a VMware executive most recently focused on national security accounts, has taken on a new role as senior director of federal strategic programs at the virtualization technology provider, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday. Bokulic will oversee business development efforts that support VMware’s strategic programs in the federal market a...
Clara Conti, a more than 20-year technology industry leader, has joined Red Hat as vice president and general manager of the company’s public sector business, according to a LinkedIn post. She brings to Red Hat over two decades of experience in strategic planning and execution, pipeline development, customer acquisition and retention policy im...
The Department of Defense has completed the market research for a program that will replace the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud initiative and expects to decide by the end of October which vendors will be allowed to take part in the new program, Federal News Network reported Thursday. The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability program will...
Kyndryl, an independent managed infrastructure services provider spinning out of IBM (NYSE: IBM), has named CEO Martin Schroeter, Stephen Hester, former CEO of RSA Insurance Group, and eight other business leaders to the board of directors. Schroeter, former senior vice president of global markets at IBM, will serve as board chairman and Hester will...
The U.S. Cyber Command is planning to collaborate with different agencies like the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Cyber Information Security Agency to strengthen cybersecurity initiatives for the upcoming 2022 elections, Signal reported Wednesday. Gen. Paul Nakasone, commander of the Cybercom who serves concurrently as the director of the Na...
