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Zscaler announced Tuesday its appointment of Laura Davis as vice president of Public Sector Channels. In this role, Davis will advance America's Public Sector sales strategy, develop the company’s channel infrastructure and ensure Zscaler supports partner success with high-impact programs. 

John Phillips, a more than 20-year enterprise software sales management veteran, has joined automated testing services provider Tricentis as vice president for public sector. Phillips will oversee Tricentis' public sector go-to-market approach and build strategic partner relationships under his new capacity.

Federated Wireless has partnered with Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Perspecta Labs, Vectrus, JMA and Capstone Partners to deploy a Citizens Broadband Radio Service-enabled private 5G wireless network for the Department of Defense. The prototype deployment is part of a multiyear initiative that seeks to modernize Marine Corps Logistics Command's warehouse operations in Albany, Georgia, through the creation of a reference design for a 5G smart warehouse.

Linda Bixby, director of academic programs at LMI, has been appointed to join the advisory board of the Pennsylvania State University's Center for Supply Chain Research. The center is established to educate and conduct research efforts on supply chain management and build a community of students and members from industry and academia.

Leidos has been recognized for its innovation, leadership and performance as Cisco's business partner for federal contracting efforts in defense and intelligence markets. Leidos said Friday it was named Federal Breakaway Partner of the Year as part of the Cisco Partner Summit Global awards, a program that recognizes the outcome-focused programs, innovative processes, sales approaches and effective system architecture of top-performing Cisco partners.

Red River has been awarded a five-year contract with the California Department of Technology's (CDT) California Network and Telecommunications (CALNET) Program to deliver next-generation data network and communication services to the State of California. “We are excited to be able to support the State of California with leading edge, cloud-based communications services,“ said Ross Woodley, Red River's chief programs officer.

Pete Brady, a U.S. Army Veteran and former senior vice president at BlueWater Federal Solutions, has been named chief growth officer at Reston, Virginia-based information management technology company TekSynap.

More than 130 countries have privacy laws in place and a new Cisco report has found that 79 percent of security professionals said they believe these laws meant to hold organizations and governments accountable for their data management have had a positive impact. Cisco surveyed more than 4,400 security professionals from 25 countries in summer 2020 for the Data Privacy Benchmark Study and found that 93 percent of organizations said their privacy teams played a key role in helping them respond to COVID-19 pandemic-related challenges, including the shift to telework and implementation of controls on the use and access of shared personal information.

Andy Stewart, a senior federal strategist at Cisco, wrote about the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Level Certification framework and how it helps deliver trust throughout the entire supply chain and drive change across the defense industrial base to protect the government's data and technology used to support military operations.

Deloitte and Cisco have offered next-generation contact center technologies to help agencies address the surge in demand for government services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Rethinking the customer experience and integrating automation and virtual assistants should be part of the long-term solution for every government," said Marc Mancher, principal at Deloitte Consulting.

The Professional Services Council has found that the use of shared information technology services by federal agencies has jumped 2 percent each year since 2017, FedScoop reported Monday. 

Hitachi has formed a global partnership that includes five founding members from the technology sector to drive digital transformation in areas such as information technology, smart infrastructure, mobility and energy.

A Government Business Council survey sponsored by Cisco has found that 58 percent of federal defense agency employees said they think agencies should consider cloud security as the top priority as they advance cloud adoption.

AT&T and Cisco will collaborate to help enterprise customers increase visibility into internet of things devices across a network as part of an extended partnership between the two companies.

Cisco has obtained Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for Webex for Government, an application designed to unify messaging, calling and virtual meetings into one platform.