Margie Graves, who served as the federal deputy chief information officer from March 2016 to December 2019, has joined IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) Center for The Business of Government as a senior fellow. Her new role will center on research, public speaking and writing about various topics such as cloud computing, analytics, emerging technology and cyb...
A new IBM (NYSE: IBM) study says government information technology leaders said they expect agencies to make cybersecurity spending a priority for fiscal year 2022 amid the recent cyberattacks. IBM said Thursday it commissioned Morning Consult to survey more than 500 current and former U.S. government IT decision makers in June and found that more...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has unveiled its plan to acquire Bethesda, Maryland-based BoxBoat Technologies, a consulting company that specializes in DevOps and Kubernetes container orchestration, in a push to further expand Big Blue’s hybrid cloud services business. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and IBM said Thursday it expects to close t...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) has won a potential $850 million task order from the U.S. Navy to provide technical support for the service’s enterprise resource planning system, CHIPS reported Monday. The Navy ERP Technical Support Services task order awarded under the SeaPort-NxG multiple-award contract supports upgrades to the Navy ERP financial system that ov...
Former IBM (NYSE: IBM) executive Edward Sebold and General Electric (NYSE: GE) veteran Una Pulizzi have been appointed to respectively serve as general counsel and head of global affairs at Kyndryl, a new managed infrastructure services provider spinning out of IBM. Sebold previously led Big Blue’s legal teams that worked with its Watson Healt...
An independent company that will be formed once IBM (NYSE: IBM) spins off its managed infrastructure services business by the end of 2021 will operate under the name Kyndryl and will be based in New York City. “Kyndryl evokes the spirit of true partnership and growth,” Kyndryl CEO Martin Schroeter said in a statement published...
Zachary Lemnios and Terry Halvorsen of IBM (NYSE: IBM) said the company has led the development of a marketplace in a hybrid cloud environment meant to secure the development and production of microelectronics for the Department of Defense and commercial industry. IBM established the Marketplace for Advanced, Rapid, Quantifiably-assured, Trusted Sem...
Joseph Cubba, formerly senior partner and vice president for defense and intelligence at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been named chief growth officer of ManTech International (Nasdaq: MANT). He will report directly to ManTech Chief Operating Officer Matt Tait and be responsible for strategic growth efforts across the federal civilian, defense and intelligen...
Quincy Allen, a 35-year technology services industry veteran and former chief marketing officer of IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) cloud business, has been appointed to the board of directors of Lumen Technologies. Lumen said Thursday that Allen met independent director qualifications under the New York Stock Exchange listing policies and his addition bring...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) will further develop its digital health tool designed to help address the COVID-19 pandemic under the second phase of a contract awarded by the National Institutes of Health. The company said Thursday it will deploy its IBM Digital Health Pass to employees of the water and wastewater utility Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission...
