Akima announced Thursday its Cloud Lake Technology subsidiary is one of the first companies in the U.S. to be appraised at level 3 of the CMMI Institute’s Capability Maturity Model Integration Version 2.0 (CMMI V2.0) for development and services. The benchmark appraisal was led by Integrated Quality Corp.

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Mitre has obtained a U.S. patent for an antenna and ground plane technology designed to suppress back radiation from GPS antennas mounted on aircraft platforms.

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MobileIron has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program  authority-to-operate designation from the U.S. Postal Service for the company’s cloud-based enterprise mobility management platform. The FedRAMP Agency ATO status recognizes that the MobileIron Cloud platform has met security standard requirements in the program’s federal risk management process, the company said Monday. “MobileIron has helped government agencies secure their mobile deployments […] More

Barry Morris serves as vice president of the federal division at EMC and has three decades of federal sales experience. In this capacity, he oversees information technology projects with federal agencies and manages the company’s collaboration efforts with other government contractors and systems integrators. Prior to EMC, Morris spent more than a decade at Polycom, […] More

The MITRE Corp. and Allied Minds Inc. have forged a commercial technology transfer partnership with the goal of introducing MITRE’s cyber and mobile security systems to the market and forming a new business. Allied Minds’ federal innovations subsidiary will work to evaluate MITRE’s technologies for commercial applications and licensing under the agreement, Allied Minds said […] More

Building a public sector product pipeline requires understanding priorities in the short and long term, said Barry Duplantis, public sector general manager at collaboration platform Mattermost. In an interview on the Sales Game Changers Podcast, Duplantis explained the importance of security and other challenges in selling novel technology to government customers.

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Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said government agencies looking to curb the use of shadow IT by employees should consider deploying a self-hosted, open-source collaboration platform. In an opinion piece published Tuesday on Federal Times, Duplantis wrote that such a platform could enable government employees to share data, communicate and collaborate while ensuring data security.

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Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said federal agencies should consider developing digital playbooks to facilitate and speed up response to cybersecurity incidents and natural disasters. “Digital playbooks combine strategic and tactical documentation, automated checklists, real-time collaboration, clear instructions, and more. They ensure that everyone on […] More

Last year, Mattermost launched its government-focused offering, opening up new opportunities for the company to serve customers like the Department of Defense. ExecutiveBiz spoke with Barry Duplantis, vice president of government solutions for Mattermost, to learn more about Mattermost’s growth and progress over the last year as well as what’s next for the company in the […] More

Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said federal agencies should provide software developers with a technical collaboration platform that could enable them to build digital capabilities in support of their organizations’ missions. “More effective than traditional, general-purpose collaboration solutions, a technical collaboration platform equips developers with […] More

JLL and Chugach Intelligence Solutions have established a joint venture to help federal customers address challenges in facilities support, logistics and construction services. The new entity, JLL-CISL, will combine the engineering and construction management capabilities of Chugach Intelligence with JLL’s expertise in advisory, project management and technology-driven facility services, JLL said Wednesday.  Collaborating under a […] More

Barry Duplantis, vice president and general manager of the North American public sector at Mattermost, said government agencies looking to eliminate collaboration and communication barriers and address information silos to help improve developer productivity should consider three factors and the first is investing in software built for developer workflows. “Since open source is easily customizable, […] More