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The Department of the Treasury plans to make an investment of more than $1.5B in the next 10 years to move its data and systems to the cloud, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday.

Brian Wallace, a 20-year technology leader, has joined augmented identity and biometric systems provider IDEMIA as senior vice president and chief marketing officer for North America.

Representatives from several technology companies held a meeting Wednesday with government officials at Facebook’s (Nasdaq: FB) Menlo Park, Calif.-based headquarters to discuss how to facilitate information sharing and detect threats in order to protect the 2020 U.S. elections from potential foreign interference, the New York Times reported Wednesday.

The U.S. Army has awarded Carahsoft Technology a potential $247.7M basic ordering agreement for cloud services to support the military branch’s efforts to consolidate data centers and modernize its information technology infrastructure.

Mike Daniels, an executive from Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has joined Google as vice president for global public sector cloud sales, Bloomberg reported Monday.

Hexagon’s federal business executives said they expect the pending acquisition of Thermopylae Sciences and Technology, a geospatial software vendor based in Arlington, Va., to help drive the adoption of location intelligence and five-dimensional analytics platforms within the unit’s customer base. Visualization products built by Thermopylae use the Google technology stack …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 31, 2018 — SAP National Security Services and Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) will work to provide cloud and data capabilities built on the SAP HANA in-memory database system and Google Cloud Platform to drive the digital transformation efforts of public sector customers, ExecutiveBiz reported Friday. The partnership aims to …

IBM (NYSE: IBM) has agreed to acquire Red Hat (NYSE: RHT) for approximately $34B in a move both companies expect to create a global hybrid cloud provider. IBM said Sunday it will pay $190 in cash for each share of Red Hat under the deal that is expected to conclude in …

TYSONS CORNER, VA, October 11, 2018 — General Dynamics‘ (NYSE: GD) information technology business has added Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) cloud products and services to its offerings through the General Services Administration‘s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle, ExecutiveBiz reported Sept. 26. Google Cloud Platform will be available to General Dynamics Information …

Google has dropped plans to compete for the Defense Department’s potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract, Federal News Network reported Monday. “We couldn’t be assured that it would be aligned with our artificial intelligence (AI) principles,” Aileen Black, an executive director at Google, said of the JEDI contract. …