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Michael Montoya, a more than 12-year veteran of Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), has joined data center services provider Equinix (Nasdaq: EQIX) as chief information security officer.
Read More »Microsoft Vet Michael Montoya Joins Equinix as CISO
SEAKR to Build Space Processing Tech Under DARPA’s Blackjack Pit Boss Contract
SEAKR Engineering has received a contract to develop a processing system for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Blackjack Proliferated Low Earth Orbit Demonstration program.
Read More »Microsoft Furthers Azure Cloud Innovation for Public Sector Clients
Lily Kim, general manager of Azure government at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), higlighted some of the company's latest efforts to help agencies address cloud computing requirements in a blog entry posted Monday.
Read More »Report: CIA Issues Presolicitation for Potential $10B Commercial Cloud Enterprise Contract
The CIA plans to award a potential $10B contract to expand the acquisition of commercial cloud services from multiple vendors, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday.
Read More »Former Amazon Exec Jeff Kunins Named Axon Chief Product Officer, Software EVP
Jeff Kunins, formerly vice president of Alexa Entertainment at Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) Alexa Entertainment, has joined public safety technology provider Axon (Nasdaq: AAXN) as chief product officer and executive VP of software.
Read More »Microsoft Hires Patricia Obermaier as US Health, Life Sciences VP
Patricia Obermaier, founder and former CEO of consulting firm Resigility, has joined Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) as vice president for U.S. health and life sciences, FedHealthIT reported Tuesday.
Read More »Tom Burt: Microsoft to Update Windows 7 Security Feature for Federally Certified Voting Systems
Tom Burt, head of the customer security and trust team at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has said the company will provide security updates to federally authorized voting systems that still use Windows 7, even after the decade-old operating system reaches its end of life phase in January 2020.
Read More »Report: Treasury Plans to Spend $1.5B on Cloud Procurement Contracts
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.
Read More »Tech Firms, Federal Officials Meet to Discuss Ways to Ensure 2020 Election Security
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.
Read More »DoD Inspector General to Review JEDI Cloud Contract
The Department of Defense’s inspector general has formed a team of auditors to assess the potential 10-year, $10B Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract, the Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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