TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has named the 19 winning local and regional governments, school districts, agencies and companies in the 2017 City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the winners fall under the Best Practices, Dream Big and Pa...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 16, 2017 ” Dell Technologies‘ (NYSE: DVMT) Virtustream and Pivotal businesses have collaborated to provide an enterprise-grade cloud service that works to support the rapid development and deployment of applications in hybrid cloud environments, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Virtustream said Wednesday t...
The General Services Administration has added approximately 500 small businesses to a list of contractors that won positions on the agency’s 8(a)Â Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resources for Services II open season contract. GSA said Thursday 8(a) STARS II is a governmentwide acquisition contract designed to provide federal agencies acc...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed up for the seventh consecutive day with platform companies leading the pack. U.S. stocks slid for the fourth time in the past five days, with technology stocks continuing to plummet as selling activity resumed, begging the question of if tech will be under this pressure for the rest of the summer....
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, was a presenter at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 9th Defense Industrial Discussions event where he discussed the company’s cybersecurity efforts, GovCon Executive reported Friday. ACT I said Niggel pr...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Robert Zitz, senior vice president and chief strategy officer at Space Systems Loral‘s government systems business, has said the pending acquisition by parent company MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates of DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI) would enable MDA to build up support for intelligence and d...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Riverbed Technology has showcased its software-defined wide area network and visibility platforms for the cloud at Amazon Web Services‘ (Nasdaq: AMZN) Public Sector Summit held this week in Washington, GovCon Executive reported Tuesday. Included in Riverbed’s exhibit were the St...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” CAE (NYSE: CAE) has provided personnel to help Australia’s air force integrate a C-130J flight simulator into the Defense Training and Experimentation Network as well as plan and execute scenarios for a virtual training exercise, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday th...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 14, 2017 ” Amazon Web Services (Nasdaq: AMZN) has unveiled plans to establish the AWS GovCloud (US-East) Region in 2018 to provide cloud hosting services to government customers in the East Coast, ExecutiveBiz reported Wednesday. The company said Tuesday the facility will be its second after the AWS GovCloud (U...
The Executive Mosaic GovCon Index closed up for the sixth consecutive day with a mix of service providers and platform companies leading the pack. Officials at the Federal Reserve went ahead with an interest-rate increase and additional plans to tighten monetary policy despite growing concerns over weak inflation. Technology stocks slid to...
