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IBM, BAE Systems and General Dynamics presented at the 2020 Association of the United States Army conference their hybrid cloud services that can be moved from one system to another, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday.

Mohammed Farooq, former general manager of IBM operations cloud for hybrid multi-cloud management, has joined Hypergiant Industries as global chief technology officer and a member of its board of directors.

Carahsoft Technology has modified its contract with The Quilt, an information technology networking coalition, to expand the number of products and services for the academic and nonprofit sectors. The amended master service agreement will offer customers access to 25 vendors of software licenses, hardware, cloud subscriptions, professional and managed services and training, Carahsoft said Thursday.

As the leader in exclusive peer networking events, virtual events and media in the government contracting (GovCon) sector, Executive Mosaic continues to expand its platform with the launch of ArchIntel Events. On October 22nd, ArchIntel Events will host the ArchIntel - AI in Competitive Intelligence Forum as its first virtual event featuring August Jackson, senior director of Marketing and Competitive Intelligence for Deltek, as the keynote speaker. 

Amy Johanek, a nearly 15-year IBM veteran and a project management professional, has joined data analytics company Splunk as regional sales director for the public sector, FedHealthIT reported Thursday.

Wendi Whitmore, vice president of a team working on threat intelligence and incident response at IBM, said the company’s Cost of a Data Breach report shows a connection between the adoption of security automation and orchestration practices and reduced data breach costs, Nextgov reported Thursday.

John Kamensky, a senior fellow with the IBM Center for the Business of Government, wrote in a Nextgov article published Tuesday that there are five mindsets that could serve as keys to success for champions of technological innovation in the federal government.

Jennifer Chronis has been appointed as head of Verizon's federal business, succeeding Michael Maiorana, the company announced Tuesday. Chronis will begin her new role early next month.

Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on FCW that frameworks and other resources from the National Institute of Standards and Technology provide government agencies a “strong road map” towards improving their cybersecurity posture.

Alan Crouch, former federal account manager at software engineering company Coveros, has been appointed to lead Steampunk's DevSecOps practice. He brings technical experience in areas such as Agile engineering, cybersecurity, continuous integration, cloud adoption and test automation, Steampunk said Wednesday.

A consortium launched in March to advance research into the novel coronavirus using supercomputers has approved 78 COVID-19 research proposals and has been running 68 projects as of July 1, Nextgov reported Wednesday.

Craig Schneider, formerly a principal and director of technical delivery at Excella, has been named vice president of technology programs at Vertical Applications. He will oversee technical strategy for the Arlington, Va.-based information technology company's federal practice in his new position.

Dan Chenok, executive director of the IBM Center for the Business of Government, told Government Matters in an interview posted Monday about the need for government agencies to understand the benefits and risks of implementing artificial intelligence.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected two research teams to develop technologies for a program that seeks to automate the process of integrating scalable defense mechanisms into integrated circuit chip designs and help improve the security of the semiconductor supply chain.

Donald Fenhagen and Thomas Bruno, executives at IBM and Accenture’s federal business, respectively, have joined the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council’s board of directors to each serve on three-year terms.