Tag Archives: cloud

Cubic (NYSE: CUB) has exercised an option in a purchase agreement to acquire the remaining 80 percent stake in Herndon, Va.-based commercial software firm Pixia for approximately $200M.

Sevatec announced on Thursday that the General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded the company a spot its CIO Modernization and Enterprise Transformation (COMET) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA). The company will provide application modernization and transformation services for Halley’s COMET $116 million task order. Sevatec will be responsible for a portfolio of …

Aubrey Merchant-Dest, federal chief technology officer at Symantec, has said government agencies should work to achieve interoperability to improve their security posture, address tool complexity, reduce costs and establish a framework to leverage automation.

David Egts, chief technologist for North America public sector at Red Hat, said he believes more companies will pursue Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification in calendar year 2020 as the process gets easier, Federal News Network reported Monday.

Kyle Rice, chief technology officer at SAP National Security Services, has said government agencies can modernize and ensure the security of their information technology infrastructure by leveraging commercial offerings and an example of that is working with industry partners to integrate artificial intelligence into the cloud.

Bob Spitz, a more than two-decade technology leader, has joined Arlington, Va.-based Halfaker and Associates as chief technology officer.

Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), has said there are several techniques and tools agencies could use to provide users secure connections to applications wherever they are. Kovac wrote about how zero-trust networking uses encrypted microtunnels and microsegmentation to establish a seamless and trusted connection between users and apps.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has won the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract from the Department of Defense.

Defense Secretary and 2019 Wash100 awardee Mark Esper has recused himself from a review of the Pentagon’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to avoid any issue of a conflict of interest.

Expanse, a San Francisco-based internet operations management firm, has launched a new product designed to help organizations identify and manage internet risks and other vulnerabilities facing their suppliers.