Booz Allen Hamilton and Elastic have formed a partnership with the intent to help public and private sector clients adopt open cloud-based technologies to analyze, manage and search large volumes of data. Elastic said Thursday the partnership aims to accelerate real-time analytics, logging, search and security programs as well as assist enterprise customers in efforts to increase their access to […] More

Over the last three decades, Gary Hix has watched government contracting evolve dramatically, while still retaining its core principles. He’s no passive observer though: he’s played an active role at companies like Sallie Mae, Novus Consulting Group and IBM. He's currently chief technology officer at the federal arm of Hitachi Vantara.

ExecutiveBiz had the chance to talk to Hix and get his perspective on the current state of federal cloud migration, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and more.

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ECS will add Microsoft Defender as an endpoint tool to the second version of its Army Endpoint Security Solution as part of capability improvements and upgrades, said Mark Maglin, ECS' vice president of Department of Defense cybersecurity. Maglin discussed in an interview his company's plan to accomplish the five-year, $430 million contract recompete it won from the U.S. Army Cyber Command in September 2022.

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Bob Ritchie, chief technology officer at Science Applications International Corp., and other industry executives shared insights on how organizations could optimize cloud costs, InformationWeek reported Monday. Ritchie advised users to adopt transparency and automation via a software-defined infrastructure as it provides the measurements to align the elastic utilization of cloud. “Rather than a single up-front […] More

Amazon Web Services has granted ECS two partner designations to continue helping joint customers build, deploy and manage applications in the cloud. ECS said Thursday it received the AWS Managed Service Provider status for the ninth straight year and the Premier Consulting Partner designation for the eighth time in a row. “AWS enables us to […] More

NetImpact Strategies has appointed Matt Spencer, former public sector account executive at software developer Elastic, as director of product sales. He will be responsible for sales operations and growth initiatives related to Digital Transformation 360, a product line of tools, playbooks and blueprints to aid federal government customers in their digital modernization projects, NetImpact said […] More

John Heneghan, president of ECS Federal, was recently presented with his 2023 Wash100 Award during a meeting with Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. In the award’s 10th anniversary, Heneghan was honored for the second year in a row in recognition of his success in driving company growth through new acquisitions and notable contract wins. Each Wash100 class represents […] More

Gen. Christopher Cavoli, commander of U.S. European Command and NATO’s supreme allied commander in Europe, has been selected to the 2023 Wash100 leadership elite for his significant role in collective defense operations planning and execution. The annual Wash100, now in its 10th season, represents a cross-section of influential figures poised to make exemplary contributions at […] More

RegScale has chosen Steven Coles, former Elastic and C3 AI executive, to become the new general manager of its public sector business. Coles will lead services at the software company to ensure its customers have the necessary platforms for complying with government requirements, and to help grow its federal market footprint, RegScale said. At Elastic, […] More

Cloud plays a major role in the public sector’s overarching information technology modernization and digital transformation goals. But the cloud is still relatively new in practice, and organizations are still working through how to best leverage it.  There are many instances in which the public cloud makes sense, and many instances in which it does […] More

Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle have secured spots on a potential $9 billion cloud procurement vehicle from the Department of Defense. The multiple-award Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract is intended to provide military personnel with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud offerings spanning all security domains and classification levels from the strategic level to the tactical edge, DOD said Wednesday. […] More

Amazon Web Services helped the Department of Justice’s tax division develop an application in less than two months to streamline the process for employees seeking approval for their telework requests and enable DOJ to implement a hybrid work arrangement as part of their return-to-office policy. The development team at DOJ’s tax division tapped AWS Professional […] More