Jon Love, formerly vice president of global business development at Maxar Technologies (NYSE: MAXR), has joined Compass Group‘s U.S. subsidiary as senior vice president of corporate services, according to his recently published LinkedIn post. Love, who has more than two decades of business development experience, will drive business growth and...
HiddenLayer, a provider of cybersecurity tools for artificial intelligence applications, has raised $50 million in a Series A funding round co-led by Microsoft‘s (Nasdaq: MSFT) venture capital arm M12 and Moore Strategic Ventures. The AI security company said Tuesday it will use the capital to advance the development of its machine learning se...
Lauren Knausenberger, former chief information officer of the Department of the Air Force and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has joined Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) as an executive vice president and chief innovation officer. In this capacity, she will oversee SAIC’s innovation strategy and corporate strategy function and a...
Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will accelerate the development and delivery of artificial intelligence and cloud computing platforms to support public sector customers’ missions under a strategic collaboration agreement. The two companies will co-develop generative AI tools to help customers support cross-domain applications ...
Candice Ling, vice president of the federal government civilian business at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) since October 2021, has been appointed as the company’s federal sector leader. Ling wrote in a LinkedIn post Tuesday that she aims to promote a culture of innovation, collaboration and inclusivity as she oversees the Microsoft Federal organizat...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will help the Department of the Treasury migrate to a multicloud information technology environment under a $1.3 billion contract. SAIC said Thursday the single-source award includes professional IT support for the Treasury to centralize the management of cloud services from Amazon Web Services, ...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one of the biggest trends in the world today, from generative AI to sophisticated cybersecurity, with a promise to transform the industry and society. While 84% of chief executives recognize AI’s importance in achieving their growth objective, most organizations are lagging behind the curve regarding AI and machine ...
NASA is looking to consolidate contracts for acquiring cloud services from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and Google into a single reseller delivery order worth potentially $685.8 million. The consolidated order for agency-wide cloud services will be open to small business resellers capable of providing access to all three cloud service providers un...
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...
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...
