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Deloitte has entered into a deal to acquire BIAS, an information technology consultancy that helps public and private sector customers adopt Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) Cloud Infrastructure. Deloitte said Thursday that terms of the deal are confidential and the company pursued the transaction to complement its portfolio of Oracle cloud migration service off...
The Department of Defense has asked Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN), Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) to compete for the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. “Our commitment to supporting our nation’s military and ensuring that our warfighters and defense partners have access to the ...
Google plans to compete for a three-year contract that replaces the Department of Defense’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing program and will be split across multiple cloud vendors, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The publication cited sources that say Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian met with DOD officials to talk ...
Gary Newgaard, former vice president at data storage hardware and software developer Pure Storage, has joined Sumo Logic to serve as general manager of the cloud-based machine data analytics company’s public sector, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. He brings to his new role his decades-long experience in working at several government-focused...
Beth Meagher, a principal at Deloitte Consulting, has been promoted to federal health sector leader of the professional services company, according to her recent post on LinkedIn. She brings more than two decades of industry experience to her new role within Deloitte Consulting’s government and public services business. Meagher joined the firm...
The Department of Defense has completed the market research for a program that will replace the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud initiative and expects to decide by the end of October which vendors will be allowed to take part in the new program, Federal News Network reported Thursday. The Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability program will...
Deborah Dunie, former executive vice president and chief technology officer at CACI International (NYSE: CACI), has joined the board of directors of Perry, Georgia-based Sigma Defense Systems. Sigma Defense CEO John Wilcox said in a statement published Monday Dunie brings to the company over 30 years of experience serving in the Department of Defens...
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...
