Blackboard has received a “moderate” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, demonstrating compliance of the firm’s education platform with government risk management standards.

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The U.S. Army has chosen Blackboard to provide learning management systems for the military branch to educate approximately 350K service members as part of its Lifelong Learning Program.

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Blackboard has launched its learning management system in Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud (US) region in a push to help government agencies manage online learning programs in a cloud environment. Washington, D.C.-based Blackboard said Monday the availability of Blackboard Learn on AWS GovCloud will support Blackboard’s efforts to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program accreditation. Blackboard Learn is designed to provide virtual learning support […] More

Bill Ballhaus, former president and CEO of SRA International, has joined educational technology firm Blackboard as its chairman, president and chief executive. He replaces Jay Bhatt, who will remain with the company as a special adviser to the chairman, Blackboard said Monday. “I am excited to join Blackboard and continue its progress in helping millions of […] More

Science Applications International Corp. has signed up for the Blackboard Partnerships program to deploy the company’s training materials to clients through Blackboard’s learning management system. SAIC customers will have access to coursework, experimentation, war-gaming, analysis services and education tools tailored for various requirements through the Blackboard Learn portal under the partnership, SAIC said Tuesday. Josh […] More

Peraton has named Rebecca McHale, former Booz Allen Hamilton executive, as chief information officer and announced two other appointments to its executive team. The company said Monday it has tapped John Reing to serve as chief human resources officer, and Lori Ellis to work as chief procurement officer. “As we focus on positively differentiating Peraton […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has issued a request for information to learn how digital media platform vendors could help update NGA’s learning methods for its 8,500 potential leadership development program beneficiaries. The RFI notice posted Monday seeks vendor pitches to update the agency’s competency model and implement interactive content along with tools to support a […] More

DLT Solutions has received a potential six-year contract to help Texas’ information resources department address software needs across state, local and education organizations.

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Genius SIS has launched its training management system on Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud region in an effort to help U.S. government agencies register, track and report on their training programs. Plantation, Florida-based Genius SIS said Wednesday the addition of its Student Information System on GovCloud will support customers’ compliance with government security requirements. AWS meets the Federal Risk and Authorization Management […] More

Erin Hawley serves as regional director of national security programs at Cloudera and is responsible for business development and marketing initiatives across the company’s intelligence market area. As part of her role, Hawley also acts as liaison for the company’s data management and open source briefings with members of Congress and their staff. She joined Cloudera in […] More

John Lambeth is chief information officer at PAE, where he oversees the company’s information technology strategy, IT support delivery and corporate application development operations. Before PAE, he worked at QinetiQ North America as CIO and managed the firm’s process quality training and management team and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program cloud practice. The […] More

Erin Hawley serves as director of national security programs at Cloudera, an integrator of open source technologies such as Hadoop for federal agencies and commercial businesses. Hawley joined Cloudera in December 2011 after five years at Composite Software and is also a veteran of firms such as Blackboard and Sun Microsystems. In this conversation with […] More