Ken Glueck, an executive vice president at Oracle, said the federal government looking to advance information technology modernization should focus on buying commercial cloud applications. “Focusing on applications also brings the additional benefit of modernizing government infrastructure. Investing in applications makes government data centers more efficient and secure as part of the package because modern cloud applications come with cloud infrastructure already included,“ he wrote.
Read More »Former Smartmatic North American President Kevin Shelly Named Area VP at Appian
Kevin Shelly, formerly president at Smartmatic's North American segment, will assist government and federal civilian agencies in his new role as an area vice president at Appian, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday.
Read More »DCSA Seeks Engineering, Modernization Support for DOD Insider Threat Mgmt System
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is looking for potential sources of engineering services to support the agency's custom-developed information technology and threat management system.
Read More »Oracle Provides Gov’t Customers With Expanded Access to Cloud Marketplace
Oracle has expanded its cloud marketplace to help customers in the U.S. government sector implement the company's cloud tools and related software to support workload migration and other operational activities.
Read More »Mitre, Microsoft, Salesforce Join Coalition to Advance Vaccination Credential Initiative
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.
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