Perspecta has secured a spot on a $700 million multiaward blanket purchase agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to help it conduct national security and background investigations. The company said Tuesday it offers a full range of services that agencies can use for detection, investigation and reduction of mission risks.

Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of the public sector group at Dell Technologies, has received a 2021 Wash100 Award, the richest prize in all of government contracting (GovCon) for the sixth consecutive year. Executive Mosaic offers its congratulations to Steve Harris and the Dell Technologies team for their selection to receive the 2021 Wash100 Award.

Steven Septoff, vice president for U.S. federal at Dell Technologies, said agencies looking to meet the goals of the Federal Data Strategy should prioritize security as they modernize their information technology platforms to better protect government data, FedScoop reported Thursday. "Security has got to be [built] within the technology “¦ as you're modernizing your IT infrastructure,“ he said.

Jessica Goodell, formerly a senior project manager at Jacobs, has joined Woolpert as director of portfolio optimization for the company's strategic consulting group.

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, said he believes low-latency edge computing platforms will have a “revolutionary" impact on warfighting operations within austere and rugged environments, FedScoop reported Wednesday.

Jennifer Swindell, a nearly two-decade veteran of Booz Allen Hamilton, has joined Perspecta as senior vice president and general manager of its risk decision group. She will oversee Perspecta's trusted workforce initiatives, risk decision business and background investigation services, the company said Tuesday.

Dell Technologies has begun to explore a potential spinoff of its 81 percent equity ownership interest in VMware as part of efforts to create value for shareholders, team members, customers and partners, Dell Technologies announced Wednesday.

World Wide Technology has been granted a Titanium Black partner designation under Dell Technologies' federal partner program for supporting customer agencies to advance digital transformation goals.

Christian Zur of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and Scott Kordella of Mitre wrote in an opinion piece published Tuesday on Federal Times that the U.S. needs to have a “single operational picture“ to facilitate timely and accurate monitoring of aircraft and space systems and enable the space launch sector to safely coexist with the aviation industry.

Rob Silverberg, chief technology officer of digital communities at Dell Technologies, has said that local governments must balance information technology, security and workforce transformation efforts to fully leverage 5G technology.

World Wide Technology has teamed up with Dell Technologies to establish a center of excellence dedicated to the creation of open-source 5G deployment blueprints.

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC Federal, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for his commitment to innovation and use of information technology, cloud adoption and other emerging technologies to help improve American life. 

Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer and vice president of presales engineering at Dell EMC's federal business, said he expects artificial intelligence, machine learning, 5G and multi-cloud technologies to become prevalent this year, Meritalk reported Thursday.

Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC's federal business and a 2019 Wash100 awardee, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Federal News Network that there are several factors agencies should consider as they adopt a multicloud approach and one is the transparency and flexibility multicloud brings to agencies.

Several executives in the federal information technology sector cited how the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act helps agencies carry out their information technology modernization efforts, MeriTalk reported Thursday.