Donald Fenhagen and Thomas Bruno, executives at IBM and Accenture’s federal business, respectively, have joined the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council’s board of directors to each serve on three-year terms.

Dave McClure, Malcolm Jackson and Jason Layman of Accenture Federal Services wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday that there are three lessons from the company’s Future Systems research that show how federal information technology leaders approach IT modernization and the first is that these leaders invest in innovation infrastructure.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present John Goodman, chief executive of Accenture Federal Services, as an inductee of the 2020 Wash100 Award for driving information technology efforts within federal agencies, innovation for emerging technology and excellent customer satisfaction.

Accenture Federal Services has been recognized as the prime systems integrator for its Model Based Product Support program by the U.S. Navy, under a 12-month, $11.3M other transaction agreement, the company announced on Monday.

Accenture announced on Monday that Aaron Faulkner has joined Accenture Federal Services (AFS) to head its federal cyber practice. He will lead the design, development and delivery of innovative cybersecurity solutions for all of AFS’ U.S. federal defense and civilian agency clients.

The U.S. Cyber Command has created a Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture strategy aimed at establishing common firing systems, joint situational awareness platforms, a sensor network and a persistent cyber training environment, Fifth Domain reported Sunday.

Accenture announced on Thursday that Dr. Kathryn Sullivan, former NASA astronaut and former administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has joined the Accenture Federal Services Board of Managers. In the role, Sullivan will provide strategic insight on Accenture Federal Services’ vision, innovation and growth journey. 

Dave McClure, principal director and CIO advisory lead at Accenture Federal Services, has said that agencies’ failure to leverage digital process automation for handling operational data resulted in “widely felt” performance gaps.

Margaret Smith, senior manager of analytics at Accenture Federal Services, has said artificial intelligence is now mature and ready, particularly in the area of image detection, to help the federal government enhance operations. 

ExecutiveBiz spoke with Dominic Delmolino, chief technology officer for Accenture Federal Services, about the impact that artificial intelligence is having in the federal market, how agencies are working to implement AI, and the creative ways it could be used in the future.

Accenture’s federal services arm has released a report recommending that federal agencies incorporate a human-centered approach to artificial intelligence system design and encourage their workforce to have a “high degree of trust” in autonomous platforms.

John Goodman, CEO of Accenture Federal Services, told Federal News Network in an interview published Thursday that the federal government is focusing on information technology modernization and efforts to improve government services. Goodman said the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act has helped federal chief information officers become innovation partners and cited the factors the company considers as it works on government projects.

Ira Entis, managing director of strategic solutions and emerging technologies at Accenture's federal services business, has said agencies should increase efforts to apply artificial intelligence to their business operations to address growing citizen expectations. 

Dave McClure, principal director and CIO advisory lead at Accenture Federal Services, has said the availability of more data, the increasing computing capacity and the software environment are some of the factors driving the pace of technology modernization in the government, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. “And you combine all three of these together, and it creates an accelerated path for modernization that we just simply have never had before in government,” McClure said at a WBJ-hosted forum.

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce John Goodman, president of Accenture Federal Services, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena — for his efforts advancing digital technologies and intelligence distributed systems. This marks Goodman’s second consecutive Wash100 award.