Startups participating in Techstars' accelerator programs will now be able to work with customers and businesses of Deloitte as part of the partnership between the two companies that was launched in an effort to boost the innovation ecosystem.

Adita Karkera, formerly deputy chief data officer for the state of Arkansas, has joined Deloitte Consulting’s government analytics and cognitive practice as a data and artificial intelligence architect. She will advise CDOs in federal and state agencies on their AI and data strategies and serve as a fellow in Deloitte’s AI Institute for Government.

Deloitte has been designated a technology and consulting partner for Amazon Web Services' mainframe migration competency. Deloitte said Wednesday its business operations and consulting services, development operations, security and the innoWake automation platform help customers migrate mainframe workloads to the AWS cloud.

A global survey conducted by Deloitte indicates that four out of five enterprise networking executives consider advanced wireless technology as vital to the deployment of cloud and edge computing, internet of things, big data analytics and artificial intelligence platforms.

Deloitte has established an organization to foster research, collaboration, mentorship and talent development for artificial intelligence in the public sector. The company said Tuesday its new Deloitte AI Institute for Government will work to help the public sector move AI adoption forward through collaborative studies.

Deloitte and Polte have partnered to help the U.S. Navy deploy cellular location technology at a military installation in San Diego as part of a 5G-ready warehouse prototype demonstration project backed by the Department of Defense.

Deloitte has appointed John Coykendall, a principal at its consulting business, to lead the company's U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) sector within the U.S. industrial products and construction practice. Coykendall will also lead Deloitte's global aerospace and defense sector, succeeding Robin Lineberger, who will retire in May. 

Deloitte and the Aerospace Industries Association have published a joint report that says cooperation between the public and private sectors could help the emerging air mobility market grow into a $115 billion industry by 2035.

Joe Mariani and Elizabeth Krimmel, senior leaders at Deloitte, have said that combining Agile and DevSecOps will enable information technology organizations to operate their systems while developing new concepts in line with cybersecurity standards.

Deloitte and Dcode have renewed their partnership to help companies bring their technology platforms to federal agencies. "The emerging tech ecosystem can be a powerful source of innovation for government agencies,“ said Mike Isman, managing director at Deloitte Consulting. 

A new Deloitte report has identified nine technology trends that are likely to cause disruption for government agencies over the next 12 to 18 months. The company's annual report Tech Trends 2021: A Government Perspective scored each trend based on its relevance to agencies and the government's readiness to implement such trends and showed that machine learning operations or MLOps, revitalization of core assets, zero trust approaches and a reboot of the digital workplace were considered the most relevant to agencies.

Deloitte and Google Cloud have expanded the companies' partnership to introduce additional products and services intended to help government customers address digital transformation goals, Deloitte announced Monday.

Amazon Web Services and Deloitte have entered into a multiyear strategic collaboration to help government and enterprise customers migrate workloads to the cloud.

Deloitte and Cisco have offered next-generation contact center technologies to help agencies address the surge in demand for government services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Rethinking the customer experience and integrating automation and virtual assistants should be part of the long-term solution for every government," said Marc Mancher, principal at Deloitte Consulting.

Marc Mancher, a principal at Deloitte Consulting, and Alan Balutis, a senior director of North American public sector at Cisco Systems' business solutions group, have said that agencies should integrate artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies with digital call centers to continuously deliver information and services to the public during the coronavirus pandemic or national emergencies.