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Lorraine Bassett, principal technical business development leader for internet of things at Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, said ruggedized, portable edge devices designed to work in austere and remote environments could help government agencies and the military collect data and generate insights for faster decision-making. “Edge computing is particularly …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 22, 2021 — Amazon Web Services and BAE Systems have made the latter’s suite of artificial intelligence offerings available to government agencies through the AWS Marketplace for GovCloud (US) region, ExecutiveBiz reported Feb. 9. The defense company said it also offers a data labeling-as-a-service platform designed …

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Craig Abod, president of Carahsoft Technology, as a recipient of the 2021 Wash100 Award, the most coveted and prestigious award in all of government contracting (GovCon). This marks the seventh consecutive year that Abod has won the award and been recognized for his commitment …

Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, has earned his seventh consecutive Wash100 Award for his leadership and commitment to the government contracting (GovCon) community through 2020 and the future of the federal sector heading into 2021. Visit ExecutiveBiz to read Desch’s full 2021 Wash100 profile. You can cast your TEN votes for your favorite executives in the federal sector on Wash100.com.

San Francisco-based analytics company Kinetica has secured a potential five-year, $100 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to create a repository of intelligence data from multiple sensor feeds for the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. North Command.

Four Points Technology will help the Department of the Treasury manage a shared services platform for commercial cloud offerings under a potential five-year, $340M task order.

Amazon Web Services called on a judge in a redacted court filing to nullify the Department of Defense’s award of the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Nextgov reported Wednesday.

Peter Ranks, former deputy chief information officer for information enterprise at the Department of Defense, has left DoD for a role at the Central Intelligence Agency where he will support cloud procurement, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. Ranks returns to the CIA to help the agency run the Commercial Cloud Enterprise or C2E program that aims to procure cloud products and services.

The CIA plans to start competition for a potential seven-year, single-award contract for cloud integration and related support services that could be valued at approximately $1B to $5B, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. The Cloud Integration and Multi-Cloud Management contract will include cloud brokerage, governance services, customer services and multicloud management support to allow U.S. intelligence agencies to use services offered by Cloud Computing Enterprise contract awardees Amazon Web Services, IBM (NYSE: IBM), Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) and Google. 

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to launch a competition for a potential $100M contract to provide infrastructure hosting services in cloud environments run by Amazon Web Services and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT).