Amazon Web Services has won a potential $10 billion cloud computing contract from the National Security Agency, Nextgov reported Tuesday. According to the report, the contract awarded to Amazon’s (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud subsidiary appears to be part of the NSA’s effort to update its GovCloud platform, the intelligence community’s classified data ...
The U.S. Air Force has named 29 additional contractors as awardees on a potential $950 million contract to build and operate systems across land, air, sea, space, electromagnetic spectrum and cyber domains as part of the Joint All Domain Command and Control program. The vendors will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-qu...
John Sherman, acting chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said the recently announced replacement to the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contracting program is planned to leverage direct awards to multiple vendors of enterprise cloud services, DOD News reported Wednesday. The initial awards under the Joint Warfightin...
Tod Weber, former chairman and CEO of Software AG’s government solutions division, has been appointed senior vice president and general manager of the federal systems group at enterprise artificial intelligence software provider C3 AI (NYSE: AI). Weber brings more than 35 years of technology industry experience to his new position and will be ...
Israel named Amazon Web Services and Google as the winners of a multiyear, $1.2 billion project to establish governmentwide data center infrastructure for cloud computing services, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The two companies will help Israeli public-sector and defense agencies build domestic repositories of sensitive data under Project ...
Joe Sangiuliano, senior director of civilian sales at Red Hat’s North American public sector business, has transitioned to a new role as vice president of business development within the same unit. He will oversee the group’s capture, alliance and partnership-driven growth efforts in his new position, according to a LinkedIn post published b...
Dan Wallace, former senior director of ServiceNow‘s federal civilian business, has elevated to the position of area vice president within the same unit, FedHealthIT reported Monday. In his LinkedIn profile, Wallace noted that he works with federal civilian customers to help them implement the company’s cloud computing platform, align the...
THIS WEEK’S TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STORIES View Weekly Contract Awards Transforming Perspecta Into a $7.1B Company; The Journey of Mac Curtis Perspecta announced in January that it will be acquired by Veritas Capital for $7.1 billion in cash, or $29.35 per share. Veritas Capital, which holds approximately 14.5 percent of Perspecta’s outstandi...
During GovConWire’s IC Acquisition and Innovation Forum, notable federal and industry leaders will address acquisition and procurement within the IC, including workforce retention, technology strategies, such as Cloud and AI adoption, as well as industry partnerships. To register for the IC Acquisition and Innovation Forum, as well as view upcomin...
Dedrone has named Ben Wenger, a two-decade enterprise software sales veteran, as chief revenue officer and appointed Mary-Lou Smulders, strategic adviser at the counter-drone technology provider since February 2020, as chief marketing officer. The San Francisco-based company said Tuesday Wenger will oversee worldwide sales of Dedrone’s platfor...
