Gunnison Consulting Group has appointed Dave Uehlinger to the company’s executive leadership team as chief financial officer to lead the finance and accounting division, the company announced on Thursday.
Read More »IBM-Vencore Alliance Launches Emergency Response App Design Challenge; Anne Altman, Kent Matlick Comment
IBM and Vencore have partnered to hold a competition for developers to build cloud-based predictive analytics and mobile software applications that can help emergency response organizations carry out their missions. The First Responder Application Challenge is meant to encourage development of a fully functioning app that will run on IBM’s Bluemix cloud platform …
Read More »IBM Adds 5 New Federal Cloud Ecosystem Partners; Anne Altman Comments
Five companies have joined IBM’s cloud ecosystem to deliver hybrid cloud services to the U.S. federal government. IBM said Tuesday that Arrow, Avnet Government Solutions, Ingram Micro, Tech Data and ViON will incorporate the IBM cloud system into their respective offerings as part of the partnership. “With our partners, we have …
Read More »IBM to Help Peace Corps Implement Cloud-Based Talent Mgmt Platform; Anne Altman Comments
An IBM subsidiary has been awarded a five-year contract from the U.S. Peace Corps to provide a cloud-based technology for the agency to recruit and engage volunteers. Kenexa will help the Peace Corps implement IBM’s recruitment and talent management platform that is designed to run on a SoftLayer cloud infrastructure designed for …
Read More »Eagle Ray CEO Babs Doherty to Serve on PSC CEO Search Panel
Babs Doherty, president and CEO of information technology contractor Eagle Ray, has been selected to serve as a member of the CEO search committee of the Professional Services Council. Doherty will work with Anne Altman, general manager at IBM, in PSC’s efforts to find a successor for the trade group’s departing President …
Read More »Stan Soloway to Leave PSC President, CEO Roles; Ellen Glover Comments
Stan Soloway has announced plans to leave the Professional Services Council after 15 years as president and CEO of the trade association that represents several government contractors. Soloway said Wednesday he will continue to serve in his roles until the organization finds a replacement and begins the transition process. Anne …
Read More »Anne Altman: FedRAMP Board Certifies IBM Mobile Device Mgmt Platform
IBM has been authorized to offer government agencies a cloud-based mobile device management platform through the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. This is the first instance of an enterprise mobility management offering to receive a provisional authority-to-operate designation from the FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board, the company said Wednesday. IBM’s MaaS360 enterprise …
Read More »IBM Receives FCC Nod to Operate Federal Cloud; Anne Altman Comments
IBM has been approved by the Federal Communications Commission to host federal workloads in the company’s Softlayer cloud environment, Nextgov reported Thursday. Frank Konkel writes IBM’s Ashburn, Virginia and Richardson, Texas-based data centers received the FCC’s authorization to run government applications. “IBM’s federal cloud business has reached another milestone as we continue …
Read More »Anne Altman: Army Taps IBM Hybrid Cloud for Logistics Data Center
The U.S. Army has adopted an IBM Hybrid Cloud to add analytics and mobile functions to the branch’s Logistics Support Activity, a service that provides data support to decision makers in Army missions around the world. LOGSA has worked to record 40 million data transactions per day since the transition to the IBM cloud platform in 2014, …
Read More »IBM Vet Anne Altman Appointed to SPX Board; Christopher Kearney Comments
Anne Altman, general manager of U.S. federal and government industries at IBM, has been appointed a member of the board of directors at manufacturing firm SPX Corp. and will serve a three-year term. SPX Chairman, President and CEO Christopher Kearney said Monday Altman brings experience in marketing, workforce optimization and organizational management. “Drawing on her many years of experience …
Read More »Octo Consulting Group, Mehul Sanghani Receive GovCon Award Nominations
Octo Consulting Group has received nominations in two categories of the Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards for the second year in a row. The federal technology and management solutions provider was named a finalist in both the Contractor of the Year and Executive of the Year awards, the same honors it …
Read More »IBM’s Anne Altman: Hybrid Model to Play a Key Role in Gov’t Cloud Adoption
Anne Altman, general manager for IBM‘s U.S. federal business, suggests that a blend of public and private cloud elements could offer government agencies more control and better security, Nextgov reported Monday. She writes that the hybrid model is gaining traction in the federal market as agencies migrate their information technology …
Read More »Anne Altman: IBM to Deliver Gov’t-Focused Cloud Services Through New SoftLayer Data Centers
IBM has established new data centers that will offer a SoftLayer infrastructure-as-a-service platform designed to help federal clients manage and secure their workloads on premise or in the cloud. The SoftLayer cloud facilities are built to host 30,000 servers and share a private computer network connectivity of up to 2,000 …
Read More »Teresa Carlson, Kay Kapoor Join Professional Services Council Advisory Board for Tech
Teresa Carlson, vice president for the global public sector business at Amazon Web Services, and Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T Government Services, have joined the Professional Services Council’s executive advisory board for technology policies, FCW reported Tuesday. Jonathan Lutton writes other new additions to the Technology Policy Council include Attain LLC Chairman …
Read More »Anne Altman: IBM Promotes Watson Supercomputer for Gov’t Healthcare Use
IBM has launched marketing campaigns to offer its Watson computing technology in the federal market with the goal of helping agencies manage health records, the Washington Post reported Monday. Mohana Ravindranath writes that IBM professionals went to Capitol Hill last year to demonstrate the computer’s potential clinical applications to …
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