Tag Archives: IT modernization

David Egts, chief technologist for North America public sector at Red Hat, wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Thursday that there are four best practices federal information technology administrators should consider adopting to support their agencies’ IT modernization efforts and one is focusing on people and processes.

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has secured positions on contracts worth $812M combined to provide technological platforms and support services for U.S. national security and intelligence agencies.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 13, 2019 — Capgemini’s government solutions business has received a spot under a three-year blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration to be a vendor of information technology products and services to government agencies in support of IT modernization efforts, ExecutiveGov reported July 31.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, August 9, 2019 — Bob Fortna, president of the federal business at Fortinet (Nasdaq: FTNT), has said government agencies can utilize software-defined wide-area network capabilities in order to support high-bandwidth applications and prevent cyber attacks in line with modernization efforts, ExecutiveBiz reported July 31.

Raj Parameswaran, president of the federal information technology business at Maximus, has said that agencies should adopt a holistic approach to address workforce and technology implementation challenges that may arise when modernizing information technology assets.

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.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 29, 2019 — David Peed, vice president and general manager of Equinix, has said federal agencies need to build on their network infrastructure or network hubs as the first in a four-step approach to advance their efforts to modernize their information technology and data center operations, ExecutiveBiz reported July 18.

The U.S. Army will launch a contracting process to identify up to three companies that can help manage the service branch’s information technology systems via other transaction agreements, Federal News Network reported Wednesday.

Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware (NYSE: VMW), wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that there are three technologies federal agencies can adopt to transform the mobility experience of their employees and adhere to security policies and one of them is an enterprise mobility management system.

The Office of Personnel Management and the General Services Administration’s Centers of Excellence have issued a draft request for quote and request for information to seek industry feedback on a plan to obtain two backup mainframes to replace existing hardware supporting OPM’s critical workloads, FedScoop reported Thursday.