Michael Coene, chief cloud architect at Hitachi Vantara Federal, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Federal News Network that there are three steps agencies should consider to accelerate digital transformation and data management efforts and one is enabling current operations and planning for future changes. “Strategic architectural design should optimize data management practices for the known, and to the extent possible, the unknown,” he said.
Read More »Quantum Names Rick Valentine as SVP, Chief Customer Officer; Jamie Lerner Quoted
Quantum has appointed Rick Valentine as senior vice president and chief customer officer. In his new role, Valentine will work to advance Quantum’s customer experience throughout the company’s transformation into an as-a-service provider for unstructured data management, analytics and storage. "Rick's deep expertise in SaaS transformation and customer experience will ensure that the Quantum customer experience remains second to none,” said Jamie Lerner, president and CEO at Quantum.
Read More »Operational Resilience, Budget Realities Among Key Themes in PSC’s Biennial Acquisition Policy Survey; Alan Chvotkin Quoted
A new Professional Services Council survey has identified five themes based on interviews with more than 22 government officials from 10 federal agencies and one of those is operational resilience and adaptability of the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. Government respondents in the 2020 Biennial Acquisition Policy Survey: A New Paradigm said procurement offices shifted to telework with minimal interruptions to business operations.
Read More »NAVAIR Seeks Ideas for Digital Transformation Pursuit
Naval Air Systems Command is searching for technologies that could support its plans to pursue digital transformation, as well as address its related challenges and meet technology need. NAVAIR said Monday in a SAM notice it seeks white papers on projects that align with the command's digital modernization plan.
Read More »Red Hat’s David Egts on Federal Data Mgmt, Cloudera Partnership
David Egts, director and chief technologist of Red Hat's North American public sector business, said the company has worked with Cloudera to develop a turnkey platform intended for data science functions.
Read More »Deltek: Accelerated Cloud Adoption, DoD Spending Among Federal Cloud Market Trends to Watch in FY 2021
A new Deltek report shows that there are three trends in the federal cloud market to watch in fiscal year 2021 and one of those is the accelerated adoption of cloud-based capabilities by agencies, Federal Times reported Thursday.
Read More »Cubic Subsidiary to Provide NGA Data Mgmt Software; Mike Knowles Quoted
Cubic’s PIXIA subsidiary will continue to provide its software platforms for data management and dissemination to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency after NGA exercised the second option year under a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract.
Read More »Zscaler’s Patrick Perry: Agencies Need Zero-Trust, Cloud-Based Enterprise IT Approach to Telework
Patrick Perry, director of emerging technology for federal, defense and intelligence community at Zscaler, has said that agencies must consider various factors in cloud implementation as remote work becomes ubiquitous.
Read More »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.
Read More »Reggie Brothers: NuWave Eyes Expansion in Federal Civilian, Energy, Health Care Markets
Reggie Brothers, CEO of NuWave Solutions, said the company primarily focuses on intelligence and defense markets with plans to expand its artificial intelligence, advanced analytics and data management work in federal civilian and commercial sectors.
Read More »Booz Allen’s Joachim Roski, Catherine Ordun: Agencies Need Actionable Data for AI Deployment
Joachim Roski and Catherine Ordun, senior leaders at Booz Allen Hamilton, have said that effective data management is the key to successful AI deployment across an organization's enterprise infrastructure.
Read More »Michael Conlin, DoD Chief Data Officer, Inducted Into 2020 Wash100 for His Efforts to Push Data Science and Talent Recruitment to Shift DoD’s Culture
Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Michael Conlin, chief data officer for the Department of Defense, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for his role in pushing data science in the department and working to improve talent recruitment to shift DoD’s culture. This honor marks Conlin’s first Wash100 win.
Read More »Fluree to Develop Blockchain Platform for Air Force, DoD Comms
Fluree has received a contract to help the U.S. Air Force develop a blockchain-based technology platform for the service branch and the Department of Defense to secure communications during command-and-control operations.
Read More »Leidos to Provide Network Services Under Navy NGEN Recompete; Gerry Fasano, Daniel Voce Quoted
Leidos will unify, run and maintain shore-based networks and manage data for the Department of the Navy under the potential eight-year, $7.7B service management, integration and transport portion of the Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract.
Read More »ECS’ Chitra Raghu: Decentralized ‘Microservice’ Apps Help Modernize Data Mgmt
Chitra Raghu, director for federal health and safety at ECS, has said that agencies must analyze data collection and storage methods before implementing data management capabilities such as external data lakes and microservice apps.
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