Brett McMillen, the general manager of the U.S. Federal Civilian & Ground Station for Amazon Web Services, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the positive impact cloud adoption, innovation through the cloud, increasing data interoperability and "the art of the possible" for federal agencies.

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Amazon and the National Science Foundation have pledged to invest $10M each in artificial intelligence research grants over a three-year period.

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A new survey by market research firm ETR says Microsoft and Amazon have emerged as the preferred vendors in more than half of the top 30 information technology products and services, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.

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The U.S. government may provide the largest growth opportunity for Amazon as the company competes for the Defense Department’s potential 10-year, $10B cloud contract, CNN Business reported Thursday. The report noted that Amazon is considered to be the frontrunner for the single-award Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement contract. The JEDI program could position the Seattle-based e-commerce firm […] More

Amazon has teamed up with real estate investment trust company JBG Smith to help build a new headquarters at National Landing in Arlington, Va. JBG said Tuesday it will provide Amazon exclusive rights to buy land properties and lease space at its buildings through an agreement. Northern Virginia’s Arlington is one of the two locations […] More

Amazon has reportedly picked Northern Virginia’s Crystal City and New York’s Long Island City to house its two new headquarters sites, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Sources said the Seattle-based e-commerce firm could officially announce its decision as early as Tuesday and government officials from both regions plan to host events for the imminent […] More

Amazon is in talks with stakeholders about plans to establish its second corporate headquarters in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Sources familiar with the matter told The Post the discussions are now in the advanced stages and more elaborate than those the company has had with other potential sites within the […] More

The U.S. Agency for International Development‘s South America Regional office in Peru has awarded a potential five-year, $23.5M contract to AECOM to help protect the Amazon rainforest from harmful infrastructure and extractive efforts. Under the Amazon Promotion of Best Social and Environmental Management Practices initiative, the company will work to protect the hydropower, oil and […] More

The U.S. Air Force and Amazon have partnered on a pilot program that allows contracting officers to make small procurements on the company’s e-commerce portal through the use of government purchase cards, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. The pilot program comes as the General Services Administration works to implement its e-commerce program in accordance with the […] More

Anne Rung, director of government for Amazon Business, has said online marketplaces could help federal agencies comply with competition requirements and achieve spending transparency and competitive pricing in terms of government procurement. Rung wrote in a FedScoop article published Thursday that agencies seeking to meet their small business spending goals could benefit from such online platforms. “Online […] More

Anne Rung, director of government sector at Amazon Business, has said adopting an e-commerce platform could help federal agencies manage spending transparency and compliance with acquisition policies, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. Rung told the station in an interview that the federal government should implement an approach that begins with the identification of clients’ requirements. […] More

ExecutiveBiz spoke with Jennifer Chronis, general manager, Defense Department, about Amazon Web Services’ cloud offerings for defense and intelligence community customers, the pace of federal information technology modernization and what she sees in store for the future of cloud computing and adoption. “[The cloud] means solving problems faster, adapting to changing environments, dealing with sudden […] More