A coalition of technology and health companies has launched an initiative that intends to enable individuals to obtain digital access to their COVID-19 vaccination records based on interoperable, open standards. Coalition members that are advancing the Vaccination Credential Initiative include Cerner, CARIN Alliance, Change Healthcare, Evernorth, Epic, Mayo Clinic, Microsoft, Mitre, Safe Health, Oracle, Salesforce and The Commons Project Foundation.
Read More »Former GitLab Director Paul Almeida Joins Anchore as Public Sector Sales VP
Paul Almeida, former director of public sector sales at GitLab, has joined Anchore to serve as vice president, responsible for driving the company's sales in the public sector, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Tuesday. He will contribute experience in product sales and account management gained from his nearly 30-year career that also includes work with Oracle and VMWare.
Read More »Kelly Horton Promoted to ServiceNow Federal Civilian Sales Director
Kelly Horton, enterprise account executive for the State Department at cloud computing software provider ServiceNow, has been promoted to director of federal civilian sales. Her industry career also includes time at Salesforce, Oracle and Ellucian.
Read More »VA Seeks Info on HR, Personnel Data System Modernization Support
The Department of Veterans Affairs is looking for potential sources that can help modernize and sustain the agency’s enterprise human resources system envisioned to support over 400K employees including managers and other personnel.
Read More »CDC Deploys Oracle Cloud-Based Data Mgmt Suite for COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has partnered with Oracle to utilize the latter’s cloud-based platform for managing procedures related to the U.S. government’s COVID-19 vaccination program.
Read More »Oracle HQ Relocates to Austin, Texas
Oracle's headquarters has been transferred from Redwood City, California to Austin, Texas, in a move to provide employees of the software company more work location options amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloomberg reported Saturday.
Read More »ExecutiveBiz Announces Top Ten GovCon Executive Recruiters of 2020
ExecutiveBiz is pleased to recognize the most significant executive recruiters of consequence influencing the government contracting (GovCon) industry with its seventh annual list of the Top Ten Executive Recruiters for 2020. Executive recruiters play a pivotal part in maintaining the success of the sector’s most important companies to lead the continued growth of the GovCon industry as a whole.
Read More »Oracle Gets FedRAMP OK for Construction Project Info Mgmt Offering
Oracle has secured moderate-level authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for a variant of its cloud-based tool designed to provide a common data environment for linking teams and information.
Read More »Jose Arrieta: HHS Uses Oracle Cloud Platform to Help Track COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
Jose Arrieta, former chief information officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the use of a cloud platform from Oracle has helped HHS enhance tracking of clinical trials of potential vaccines for COVID-19, FedScoop reported Wednesday.
Read More »Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Secures P-ATO from FedRAMP JAB; Scott Twaddle Quoted
The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board (JAB) has granted Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Government Cloud Services a provisional authority to operate, the company announced Tuesday. "Achieving a FedRAMP JAB P-ATO is a key step as we help our public sector customers take advantage of OCI's security, innovation, and cost savings for their missions." said Scott Twaddle, vice president of Oracle's regulated markets for OCI.
Read More »Former Salesforce Exec Laura Boufford Joins Google as Federal Civilian Sales Director
Laura Boufford, former regional vice president of aerospace sales at Salesforce, has been named director of federal civilian sales at Google, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Monday. Her technology industry experience encompasses the areas of cloud computing, enterprise information technology and software as a service.
Read More »Oracle Helps NIH Build Cloud-Based Clinical Trial Registry
Oracle has built a cloud application system for a National Institutes of Health component to identify qualified participants for large-scale clinical trials of vaccines and monoclonal antibody therapies for the novel coronavirus. The registry is designed to screen indviduals who have volunteered to join tests through the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases' COVID-19 Prevention Network, Oracle said Thursday.
Read More »Oracle’s Cloud Platform Supports Permit Mgmt Operations in California
Oracle has partnered with the city of Vallejo in California to deploy the company’s web-based community development tool to help simplify the delivery of construction permit services to constituents.
Read More »ViON to Help Update SBA Loan IT Platforms; Tom Frana Quoted
ViON has been selected to provide information technology infrastructure for the modernization of Small Business Administration systems used to process loan applications.
Read More »Software Industry Vet Jerome Labat Joins Cerner as CTO
Jerome Labat, a three-decade software market veteran, has been named chief technology officer of health information technology provider Cerner.
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