Michael Byrd, a 28-year federal information technology market veteran, has joined Rancher Government Solutions as vice president of ecosystems and partner management. His appointment comes as Reston, Virginia-based RGS looks to accelerate its federal market growth initiatives, the open source software provider said Thursday. Paul Smith, RGS CEO and ...
Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, said the Department of Defense has placed task orders worth $200 million combined under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract since the award to four vendors was announced in December 2022, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. He gave the JWCC procurement vehicle up...
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a two-time Wash100 awardee, has released a memorandum encouraging military departments and other DOD components to use the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract to buy future enterprisewide cloud service offerings across all classification levels. The move is part of...
Anthony Robbins, vice president of NVIDIA’s federal business, accepted his sixth Wash100 prize from Jim Garrettson, CEO and founder of Executive Mosaic and the award itself, in a convivial meeting at NVIDIA’s Herndon, Virginia office in July. The Wash100 Award is determined by EM’s discerning voting committee on an annual b...
Mark Testoni, former CEO of SAP National Security Services, has been appointed executive chairman at Arlington, Virginia-based professional services company cBEYONData. Testoni will work with cBEYONData’s board of directors and executive management team to drive its corporate strategy, acquisition pursuit, product innovation and marketing and ...
Private equity firm Vector Capital has completed its purchase of Riverbed Technology for an undisclosed sum and named tech industry veteran Dave Donatelli as CEO of the acquired information technology company. Dan Smoot, most recently CEO of Riverbed, will continue to support the company during the transition period, Riverbed said Tuesday. Donatelli...
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, ...
Multi-cloud has been touted by Pentagon leaders as the future of defense and the foundation of widespread technology modernization and digital transformation efforts. Cloud is inextricably intertwined with software modernization, JADC2, zero trust and a myriad of other top DOD priorities and programs. With the DOD’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capabil...
The Department of Defense has been working on creating a Defense Industrial Base cybersecurity strategy that is expected to be released by the end of the year, according to DOD Acting Principal Deputy CIO David McKeown, a 2023 Wash100 Award winner. “If you’ve done business with us, you know that there’s a variety of folks withi...
For military service branches, connectivity at the tactical edge — often outside of the continental United States — is critical to mission success. Warfighters must be able to access data, intelligence, capabilities and technological power in these environments in order to fight and win, especially during an era of increasing global competition ...
