Dun & Bradstreet“™s government segment has named Yaneev Golombek, a Ph.D. student in civil engineering at the University of Colorado, as the recipient of the company“™s 2019 Geospatial Data Science Scholarship.

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TYSONS CORNER, VA, April 25, 2019 “” Dun & Bradstreet hired Tim Solms, formerly vice president and general manager of Cloudera‘s (NYSE: CLDR) U.S. public sector business, to take the role of GM for the commercial data and analytics firm’s government segment, GovCon Wire reported April 16. Solms, a U.S. Army veteran who has also […] More

Tim Solms, vice president for U.S. federal business and managing director of worldwide government at Juniper Networks, has said the Defense Department should implement automation and software-defined networking efforts as it works to consolidate data centers. Solms wrote in a commentary for Federal News Radio published Monday that the adoption of SDN and automation seeks to help […] More

Forcepoint has formed a partnership with Raytheon“™s cyber services business, GigaTrust and Internet Content Management to deliver a platform designed to help suppliers comply with a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement that requires vendors to standardize security systems and methods to safeguard controlled unclassified information and defense data. Forcepoint said Wednesday its cybersecurity platform works […] More

The federally funded National Center for Atmospheric Research has selected Juniper Networks to build the networking infrastructure for a new supercomputer that scientists will use to forecast climate patterns and analyze the effects of global warming. Juniper said Wednesday the machine will be deployed to the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center this fall and is designed to generate 5.34 quadrillion calculations per second. Tim Solms, vice president of Juniper […] More

Jim Kelly, senior director for the U.S. Army business at Microsoft, said the Army’s transition to cloud computing started with enterprise email but called that move “just a stepping stone” into the future.. “The Army, like all of our Defense Department customers, is facing tremendous pressure to reduce spending, reduce headcount and gain efficiencies,“ Kelly said Tuesday in a […] More

Siemens, the German conglomerate, is having a difficult time finding 3,000 qualified workers to hire in America. The global powerhouse said many applicants don’t have the technical training qualifications they are looking for. So in turn, Siemens is going to train the new hires themselves. “You can“™t just come in and swing a hammer,” said […] More