Red Hat has obtained Common Criteria certification and Commercial Solutions for Classified designation for its Enterprise Linux 7.6 operating system.

Carahsoft Technology has landed an agency catalog agreement to provide Red Hat’s open-source Java development kit and related support services to the Department of Defense, the U.S. Coast Guard and intelligence agencies.

Sam Richman, a senior solution architect for the U.S. Air Force at Red Hat, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Defense Systems that a Joint All-Domain Command and Control infrastructure should be implemented in a way that addresses the challenge of collecting and integrating disparate data and delivering the right information to warfighters to help them make decisions.

David Egts, director and chief technologist of the Red Hat's North American public sector, recently took part in a recent Q&A session with ExecutiveBiz. Egts will be featured as a panelist during Potomac Officers Club’s Secure IT Modernization in Today’s Environment Virtual Event on August 26th. Click here to register for the virtual event. 

Mark Bohannon, vice president for government affairs at Red Hat, has said the U.S. government needs to implement agency-appropriate cloud environments and address issues with legacy systems to drive digital transformation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Red Hat has again honored Raytheon Technologies' intelligence and space business with a business transformation of the year award. Both parties worked on DevSecOps offerings last year in a joint effort to help customers incorporate security measures  early in the software development process, Raytheon Technologies said Thursday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 22, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of the North American public sector business at Red Hat, said adopting multicloud and automated information technology platforms could help agencies transform government service delivery and increase system security, GovCon Wire reported July 10.

1901 Group has committed to support the Red Hat ecosystem as a Gold and Cloud Services partner, Under the partnership, 1901 Group will integrate Red Hat OpenShift as the central component of a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to automate the migration of mission-critical legacy applications to the cloud, 1901 Group said Thursday.

Red Hat has named Carahsoft Technology as its distribution partner of the year award in the public sector category for the latter's performance in helping market open source software products across the North American government sector.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, June 1, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist of Red Hat's North American public sector business, said adopting open-source tools can drive transparency necessary to address bias in artificial intelligence, GovCon Wire reported May 12.

Amazon Web Services and Red Hat have developed an offering that will assist customers with business-related information technology challenges.

Red Hat has honored Perspecta with the Application Platform Success Partner of the Year award in recognition of the latter's open-source offerings for public sector customers.

Chuck Mosher, director for public sector enterprise domain architects at Red Hat, has said that open-source development can help government agencies quicken emergency response and simplify coordination.

Red Hat has announced new offerings to help organizations of all sizes and industries optimize, scale or simply protect IT operations in the face of shifting global dynamics, the company announced on Tuesday.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 21, 2020 — David Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s North American public sector segment, recommended that agencies create exit and backup strategies for cloud-hosted data and applications in order to reduce egress fees charged for moving from one provider to another, GovCon Wire reported April 8.