KPMG’s federal advisory practice has named 25-year FBI veteran Maria Voreh as a director and appointed Pamela Powers, Michael Westphal and Chad Poppell to managing director positions. All four public service veterans will aim to help KPMG’s government clients transform business processes, the professional services firm said. Voreh led th...
Bill Rowan of VMware (NYSE: VMW) and Brian Whitenight of General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business said the partnership between VMware and GDIT is making it easier for Department of Defense agencies to move to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s milCloud 2.0 platforms in three ways. The partnership helps simplify the...
Bill Marion, managing director at Accenture Federal Services, acted as the moderator for an expert panel discussion during Potomac Officers Club’s 2021 Navy Forum on May 12th, 2021. The following panelists discussed driving data and platform success, featuring Bradley Goodrich, Jane Rathbun and Capt. Matt Farr of the U.S. Navy and George Batsakis ...
During a recent visit to Northrop Grumman, Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson presented Shawn Purvis, corporate vice president and president of Enterprise Services at Northrop Grumman, with her first 2021 Wash100 Award. Purvis received the first Wash100 Award of her career for her leadership in enabling large-scale technology infrastructure and tra...
GovCon Wire, the leading membership organization dedicated to connecting and empowering executives within the government contracting (GovCon) community, hosted its Defense Cybersecurity Forum on Wednesday, May 12th. If you missed the Defense Cybersecurity Forum, you can still access the OnDemand footage by visiting GovCon Wire Event Archive. The Def...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2021 — The Defense Innovation Unit is reportedly nearing a decision on which among prototypes developed by Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) and McAfee (Nasdaq: MCFE) will be used by the unit as its secure cloud access management platform that will support collaboration between the Department of Defense and...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 13, 2021 — Leidos (NYSE: LDOS) and Milken Institute Center for Public Health have partnered to encourage private, government, academic and nonprofit sectors to collaboratively address mental health crisis and drug addiction that the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated, ExecutiveBiz reported May 3. “Through this new partnersh...
Raghu Raghuram, who has been with VMware (NYSE: VMW) since 2003, has been elected by the board of directors to serve as CEO and board member of the Palo Alto, California-based technology company, effective June 1. “Raghu is now in position to architect VMware’s future, helping customers and partners accelerate their digital businesses in this...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, May 12, 2021 — Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) was awarded Amazon Web Services’ Managed Service Provider Partner Program designation that recognized the former’s delivery of AWS cloud services to government customers, ExecutiveBiz reported April 30. “We are proud to be further recognized for our expertise in leveraging next...
AT&T (NYSE: T) has received a potential 12-year, $175 million contract from the Department of Transportation to perform voice and internet protocol infrastructure upgrade work, Fierce Telecom reported Tuesday. The contract calls for the company to provide DOT with cloud technology, virtual private networking, managed IP services, network-based f...
