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Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), has received a 2021 Wash100 Award in recognition of her strong and notable leadership that helped the company secure IT modernization work with government customers. To date, Gilliland has four consecutive Wash100 awards. You can read Gilliland’s full 2021 Wash100 Award profile by visiting GovCon Wire. 

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Dr. Reginald “Reggie” Brothers, CEO of BigBear.ai and GovCon Expert, with his first Wash100 Award, the standard of excellence in all of government contracting (GovCon), as a member of the 2021 class for driving revenue, expanding offerings and growing the company’s footprint through executing NuWave Solutions’ strategies and spearheading valuable acquisitions. 

Ashok Sankar, director of marketing and strategy for public sector and education at Splunk, has said that Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-authorized cloud tools are vital to helping agencies accelerate modernization, FedScoop reported Thursday.

Amazon Web Services has made its FSx service available in GovCloud (US) regions to allow educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and government customers to use the offering to launch and run highly performant file systems for streamlined operations and cost savings.

Array Information Technology and Fairfax, Virginia-based IT consulting firm Chainbridge Solutions have formed a joint venture that will focus on full-scope modernization and application support services.

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking information on cloud hosting options to migrate and field services in a bid to support public health emergency response activities.

DLT Solutions, a Tech Data subsidiary, will distribute IBM-made cloud and software technologies across the U.S. public sector under a new partnership. DLT said Thursday it will offer IBM's hybrid cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and other types of software through the Cloud Navigator Program that extends reach across the company's partner network and boosts visibility of cloud investments.

The U.S. Air Force is looking for potential sources of engineering and technical capabilities to implement cloud-based applications into propulsion systems.

Amazon Web Services and OmniSci have partnered to apply the former's new computing product to the latter's data analytics platform used by industry and government customers. AWS said Monday its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud or EC2 P4d instances bring additional graphics processing unit performance suitable for complex ML models and accelerate ML training by three times.

Peter Amirkhan, senior vice president for public sector at Zscaler, has said that implementing a digital structure, prioritizing cloud efforts and adapting hardware infrastructure for telework has helped agencies ensure operational efficiency amid the pandemic.

Eric Trexler, vice president of global government sales at Forcepoint, has said that adopting a secure access service edge network could bring potential benefits for agencies seeking to deploy unified and cloud-native services.

SentinelOne has secured Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for an autonomous cybersecurity platform designed to protect end-user devices and workloads across a network.

Eric Trexler, vice president of global government sales at Forcepoint, has said that agencies must invest in cloud experts, implement zero-trust security concepts and ensure operational flexibility in executing direct-to-cloud approaches.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, September 14, 2020 — Michael Buscher, chief growth officer of NuWave Solutions, described current trends at U.S. government agencies in areas such as cloud computing, artificial intelligence and machine learning, GovCon Wire reported Aug. 28.

Drew Schnabel, vice president of federal at Zscaler, said that agencies should prioritize cyber threat detection and zero-trust architecture deployment as organizations continue to implement telework operations.