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Geoff Vaughan, a more than 19-year information technology industry veteran, has been appointed vice president of operations for Steampunk’s federal civilian sector.
Read More »Geoff Vaughan Joins Steampunk as Federal Civilian Operations VP
Skuid-Carahsoft-Salesforce Team to Support DoD, Civilian Agency App Modernization Efforts
Enterprise software provider Skuid has partnered with Carahsoft Technology and Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) to help three U.S. defense agencies and a large civilian agency update applications. Skuid said Thursday it received four government contracts to support the customers in app development and modernization initiatives.
Read More »Steampunk Names Four Industry Execs to Oversee Federal Civilian Sector, Salesforce Practice
McLean, Va.-based information technology services contractor Steampunk has appointed industry leaders Max Licht, Joe Nizhnikov, Brandon Feather and Mike Fischer to lead its federal civilian sector and Salesforce practice.
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 »Dave Rey Promoted to Salesforce Global Public Sector President
Dave Rey, executive vice president of North American public sector sales at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) and a two-time Wash100 winner, has been named president of the company's global public sector business, GovCon Wire has learned.
Read More »Salesforce Closes $15.7B Tableau Buy; Marc Benioff Quoted
Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) has finalized its acquisition of Tableau Software for approximately $15.7B in a push to expand capabilities to help customers advance their digital transformation efforts and generate insights from data.
Read More »Carahsoft Gets Potential $248M Army Cloud Services Basic Ordering Agreement; Craig Abod Quoted
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.
Read More »Salesforce’s Dan Davis: Agencies Should Empower Employees to Deliver Seamless Customer Experience
Dan Davis, area vice president for federal civilian sales at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has said delivering a seamless service to citizens calls for federal agencies to establish an “omni-channel experience that protects existing agency investments and simply meets agency customers where they are.”
Read More »Regina Kassar Named Salesforce Coast Guard Account Executive
Regina Kassar, former account manager of federal hybrid cloud software at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been appointed as Salesforce’s (NYSE: CRM) new account executive focused on the U.S. Coast Guard, G2Xchange ETC reported Thursday.
Read More »CGI Federal’s Stephanie Mango Elected IAC Exec Committee Vice Chair at Large
The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council has elected Stephanie Mango, a senior vice president at CGI Federal (NYSE: GIB), to serve as a vice chair at large at the IAC executive committee. Her appointment is effective July 1 and she will join other newly appointed vice chairs that include Allen Ashbey of Unisys' (NYSE: UIS) federal systems business; Ivette Granier-Smith of ASRC Federal; and Cheryl Waldrup of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) information technology unit, ACT-IAC said Wednesday.
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