Executive Mosaic is pleased to include Wes Anderson, vice president of defense at Microsoft, in the 2023 edition of the Wash100 Award in recognition of his efforts to drive the utilization of augmented and virtual reality, cloud and artificial intelligence technologies in support of armed forces. The award marks the third time Anderson was selected...
Greg Myers, former vice president of federal sales at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been appointed to the advisory board of Ventech Solutions to advise the company on market growth trends and opportunities. He will join new member Mark Tomaino and returning members Penny Thompson and Ken Scalet, Ventech said Tuesday. “Ventech Solutions is exci...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer at Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal arm, said multicloud environments enable government agencies to broaden their technology options and select the best cloud platform to meet their mission requirements. Payne wrote that multicloud adoption begins with the implementation of a strategy that looks at factors t...
In recent years, the U.S. intelligence community has established new priorities as it continues to address an array of new challenges presented in the modern intelligence landscape. As technological needs evolve, the necessity of transforming traditional acquisition methods and mindsets toward the process has been highlighted. For the CIA to fu...
The Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide cloud environment has been years in the making, but now, the wheels are really beginning to turn. In December 2022, the DOD awarded its long-awaited $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract to four industry cloud service providers — Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle — m...
Executive Mosaic has included Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft’s federal business, in its 2023 Wash100 Award list for helping lead company efforts focused on delivering cloud capabilities to the government in support of national security missions. The recognition marks the sixth consecutive time that Wagner was presented with Executive Mosa...
Executive Mosaic‘s popular vote competition for the 10th annual Wash100 class kicked off three weeks ago and is driving continued participation by our readers and peers of this year’s esteemed group of government contracting figures. The Wash100 Award recognizes public and private sector leaders who demonstrated strategic vision, outstan...
Every year, the Wash100 assembles the highest performing executives from across the GovCon sector and throughout the U.S. federal community. To celebrate its 10th year of activity, the Wash100 voting committee has taken it upon itself to bring together the finest, most esteemed crop of winners yet. Now that the slate debuted in January, it...
Ernie Rhyne, formerly a managing director at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has been appointed vice president of the U.S. public sector business at information security company CyberArk, according to a LinkedIn post published Friday. Rhyne spent more than 13 years at Microsoft, where he previously oversaw modern work and security offerings under the comp...
Jason Payne, chief technology officer for Microsoft’s (Nasdaq: MSFT) federal business, said government agencies looking to accelerate information technology modernization while advancing cybersecurity and collaboration and seeking to leverage analytical capabilities should understand the role of cloud technology in such efforts. “There is widesp...
