TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 29, 2020 — The board of directors at the Professional Services Council named Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), as chairman for 2021 and he will continue to lead the group that promotes fairness and competition in the federal contracting market, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 17.
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Perspecta Wins Red Hat Partner of the Year Award; Paul Smith, Bill Lovell Quoted
Red Hat has honored Perspecta with the Application Platform Success Partner of the Year award in recognition of the latter's open-source offerings for public sector customers.
Read More »Red Hat Enterprise Linux Platform Earns NIST Security Recertification; Paul Smith Quoted
TYSONS CORNER, VA, December 26, 2019 — Red Hat renewed its Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 security certification for version 7.6 of its Enterprise Linux platform, GovCon Wire reported Dec. 12.
Read More »Raytheon, Red Hat Team Up on DevSecOps App for Software Dev’t; Paul Smith Quoted
Raytheon and Red Hat have partnered to build a DevSecOps application designed to facilitate software development at an unclassified level and accelerate deployment of tools in a classified environment.
Read More »ORock Gets FedRAMP OK to Offer Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Within Cloud; Paul Smith Quoted
ORock Technologies has secured certification from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to add the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to its cloud environment.
Read More »Kevin Phillips of ManTech International & Paul Smith of Red Hat Among New Members of PSC’s Board of Directors; David Berteau Quoted
The Professional Services Council (PSC) announced new members to its Board of Directors on Friday. Kevin Phillips, chief executive officer of ManTech International and 2019 Wash100 Award winner, became the newest board member after being approved during a PSC board meeting on June 18th.
Read More »Red Hat Helps Lockheed Implement Open Architecture for Air Force’s F-22 Fleet; Paul Smith Quoted
Lockheed Martin and Red Hat have produced an open source architecture in efforts to accelerate the development and delivery of software-based applications for the U.S. Air Force's F-22 Raptor jets.
Read More »Red Hat’s Paul Smith: Federal Digital Transformation Requires Cultural Modernization
Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat's public sector business, said digital transformation calls for the federal government to advance cultural modernization to support the creation of environments that encourage employee empowerment and creative thinking. Smith, a 2019 Wash100 winner, explained in a commentary piece published Monday on Federal News Network how Dev/Ops could help agencies transition away from waterfall software development in order to facilitate the development and deployment of platforms.
Read More »Boeing-Led Team Conducts Missile Defense System Dual Interceptor Test
A Boeing-led industry team and the Missile Defense Agency launched two ground-based interceptors to counter an intercontinental ballistic missile target during a test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. Boeing said Monday one interceptor zeroed in on the ICBM target in space and the second GBI observed the intercept before homing in on additional debris as part of the “two-shot salvo” engagement test.
Read More »Paul Smith, Public Sector Head at Red Hat, Added to 2019 Wash100 for Efforts to Accelerate Hybrid Cloud Platforms, Grow Cyber Workforce
Executive Mosaic is happy to announce that Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat's public sector business, has been selected to join the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his efforts to accelerate hybrid cloud platforms and other technology to help federal agencies and grow the cyber workforce. This marks his third Wash100 win.
Read More »Red Hat’s Operating System Gets NIST Data Security Recertification; Paul Smith Quoted
Red Hat has received Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 recertification from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for its Enterprise Linux 7.5 operating system. Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s public sector in North America, said in a statement published Thursday the FIPS 140-2 recertification …
Read More »ORock’s Red Hat OpenStack-Based Cloud Platform Gets FedRAMP Authorization; Paul Smith Interviewed
ORock Technologies has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its Red Hat OpenStack-based cloud platform. A Defense Department agency granted the FedRAMP authorization to operate to ORockCloud at the moderate impact level for hybrid cloud deployments and Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service models, ORock said Tuesday. “The ORockCloud brings …
Read More »Paul Smith Talks Open Source Tech at Red Hat Government Symposium
Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of Red Hat’s public sector, told attendees of the company’s annual Government Symposium that he believes open-source technology “is the best source for choice and security.” Smith cited the Kubernetes project to discuss the role of open source in efforts to address information …
Read More »Red Hat Gets New Common Criteria Certification for Operating System; Paul Smith Comments
Red Hat has obtained another Common Criteria Certification for its Enterprise Linux 7.1 operating system. BSI, Germany’s federal information security office, issued the certification under the General-Purpose Operating System Protection Profile 3.9 that sets security requirements for OS fielded in public utilities, telecommunications, health care and other critical infrastructure, Red …
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