Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector business and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, said the company will contribute up to $20M to a new program aimed at helping customers research and develop diagnostic tools for detecting the novel coronavirus known as COVID-19.
Read More »Perspecta Gets AWS DevOps Competency Status; Mike Kirkland Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, March 20, 2020 — Amazon Web Services has given Perspecta (NYSE: PRSP) a DevOps Competency designation for the latter’s delivery of cloud-based technology platforms to government customers, ExecutiveGov reported March 12.
Read More »Byron Bright, President of KBR Government Solutions, Named to 2020 Wash100 for Company Growth; Driving Innovation for Tomorrow’s Workforce
Executive Mosaic is honored to present Byron Bright, president of KBR's U.S. government solutions business, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award, the most prestigious and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon) for driving company growth for the company while also helping to push innovation for federal agencies in cybersecurity, autonomous vehicles and other technologies to develop tomorrow’s workforce.
Read More »Cloud Could Help Agencies Accelerate Innovation Through Data Analysis; AWS’ Brett McMillen Quoted
Government and industry leaders took part in Government Matters’ Tech Leadership Series: Innovation program to discuss how cloud computing helps agencies advance innovation, deliver citizen services and carry out their missions. One of the key themes discussed during the program is the cloud’s role in enabling agencies to store and analyze large datasets to advance public service innovation, according to an Amazon Web Services blog post published Monday.
Read More »Treasury Issues Cloud Shared Service Support RFI
The Department of the Treasury has issued a request for information on vendors of Amazon Web Services offerings to support a cloud shared services program.
Read More »AWS Adds Forcepoint Security Products to Security Portal Under New Partnership
Forcepoint has partnered with Amazon Web Services to market cybersecurity offerings to enterprise customers through the AWS Security Hub.
Read More »AWS, CircleCI Forge Cloud Application Modernization Partnership
CircleCI, a San Francisco-based continuous integration and delivery platforms provider, and Amazon Web Services teamed up to help federal agencies using the AWS GovCloud platform advance the modernization of their application development workflows, TechCrunch reported Tuesday.
Read More »Former GSA Official Beth Angerman to Join Slalom; Luanne Pavco Quoted
Beth Angerman, former principal deputy associate administrator of the Office of Governmentwide Policy within the General Services Administration, will take on a client service partner role at Slalom starting Monday, FedScoop reported Thursday.
Read More »ECS Bags AWS Premier Consulting Partner Status for Fifth Year; George Wilson Quoted
Amazon Web Services has recognized ECS as a premier consulting partner for the fifth consecutive year.
Read More »Iridium Launches Global IoT CloudConnect Offering; Matt Desch Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 6, 2020 — Iridium Communications (Nasdaq: IRDM) collaborated with Amazon Web Services to introduce a service that will enable clients to use internet-of-things platforms on a global level though satellite-enabled cloud technology, GovCon Wire reported Jan. 29.
Read More »Navy to Migrate Asset Mgmt System to AWS Cloud Platform
The U.S. Navy is set to move an enterprise resource planning system to Amazon Web Services’ cloud environment as part of an information technology modernization effort.
Read More »Executive Mosaic Announces 2020 Wash100 Award Recipients; CEO Jim Garrettson Quoted
Executive Mosaic, the leading executive media and events company in the government contracting “GovCon” industry, announced the 2020 winners of the highly coveted and prestigious Wash100 Award. The full list of winners and more information about the award can be found on Wash100.com.
Read More »AWS, Credence Management Solutions Wrap Up Cloud Migration of DLA Apps; Dave Levy Quoted
Amazon Web Services partnered with Credence Management Solutions to complete the migration of five applications operated by the Defense Logistics Agency to the AWS GovCloud environment.
Read More »New AWS Partner Network Program Supports Disaster Response Initiatives
Amazon Web Services’ recently launched Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency initiative has helped entities like the Australian government look for technology vendors that can support their citizen welfare efforts, GCN reported Friday.
Read More »NOAA Partners With AWS, Microsoft, Google to Open Up Environmental Data; Dave Levy Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 8, 2020 — Amazon Web Services, Google (Nasdaq: GOOGL) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) received contracts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to make the agency’s environmental data available on the companies’ cloud platforms, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 23.
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