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Jennifer Chronis Named Verizon Federal Business Head; Andres Irlando Quoted
Jennifer Chronis has been appointed as head of Verizon's federal business, succeeding Michael Maiorana, the company announced Tuesday. Chronis will begin her new role early next month.
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FEC Deploys AWS Tech for Election Campaign Contribution Processing
The Federal Election Commission has expanded its Amazon Web Services cloud migration and scaling efforts in a move to simplify the processing of U.S. campaign contribution data.
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Halfaker Books CMS Cloud Security Support Contract
Halfaker and Associates has secured a three-year, $18M contract to help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services secure the agency's enterprise cloud computing system.
Lockheed’s Rick Ambrose Notes AWS’ Move to Extend Cloud Innovation to Space
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 10, 2020 — Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's (NYSE: LMT) space segment, has lauded Amazon Web Services' move to bring the cloud computing experience to the space domain, GovCon Wire reported July 1.
Members Offer Updates on COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium’s Work
A consortium launched in March to advance research into the novel coronavirus using supercomputers has approved 78 COVID-19 research proposals and has been running 68 projects as of July 1, Nextgov reported Wednesday.
AWS’ Jennifer Chronis: Cloud Migration Helps Navy Advance Analytics, Improve Security
Jennifer Chronis, general manager for the Department of Defense market at Amazon Web Services, told SiliconANGLE Media’s theCUBE in a video interview posted Tuesday that the migration of the U.S. Navy’s enterprise resource planning system to AWS GovCloud has enabled the service to facilitate analytics and improve the decision-making process.
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Census Bureau Uses AWS Cloud Tech to Store, Process Data; Dave Levy Quoted
The U.S. Census Bureau migrated its website for the decennial count to an Amazon Web Sevices GovCloud (US) environment in a move to modernize data collection procedures.
AWS’ Teresa Carlson: Agencies Speed Up Move to Cloud During COVID-19 Pandemic
Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said the COVID-19 pandemic has prompted government agencies to accelerate their migration to the cloud to meet telework requirements and increased mission demands, the Washington Business Journal reported Tuesday.
McAfee Receives FedRAMP High Certification for Cloud Access Security Broker Platform
McAfee has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for a cloud security access broker platform designed to help federal customers protect data and applications in multicloud computing environments. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board granted provisional authority-to-operate approval to McAfee's MVISION Cloud offering at high level, the company said Thursday.