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The accreditation body of the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has formed the Industry Advisory Council that will be responsible for providing CMMC-AB and DOD with CMMC implementation feedback, input and recommendations on behalf of organizations seeking certification (OSCs).

Salesforce has launched a new cloud platform designed to help government agencies, health care institutions and other organizations manage and implement their vaccine programs. Vaccine Cloud could help public health agencies, health care providers and nonprofit organizations schedule vaccination appointments, manage staff training, logistics and inventory, facilitate recipient registration and streamline vaccine outcome monitoring.

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.

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.

IBM and Salesforce have teamed up to help government agencies, businesses and schools verify an individual's health and vaccine status to enable them to safely reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The partnership will facilitate the integration of IBM Digital Health Pass with the Salesforce Work.com platform to provide organizations with a single tool for making data-driven decisions as they work to streamline communications, initiate actions and reduce risks.

Government agencies from across the globe have used Salesforce to manage multiple functions of COVID-19 vaccination programs. Over 15 agencies from all levels of government have adopted the Salesforce platform for efforts to administer these programs, deliver the vaccines and inform the masses, the cloud software company said Wednesday.

Accenture's federal arm will develop a platform to automate Thrift Savings Plan processes, offer electronic signature capabilities and help TSP users access services through phone, email, virtual assistant and other channels under a contract with the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. The Recordkeeping Services Acquisition contract awarded to Accenture Federal Services has a transition period of 18 months and four, three-year option terms.

Hitachi has formed a global partnership that includes five founding members from the technology sector to drive digital transformation in areas such as information technology, smart infrastructure, mobility and energy.

Accenture has launched a platform to help government agencies and health care institutions plan and manage COVID-19 vaccination programs and related communication and distribution efforts.

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.

The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services has implemented a cloud application that is built on the Salesforce platform and designed to monitor the supply of naloxone, a medication for patients who have overdosed on opioids.

Copado has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to distribute in the public sector market a technology offering designed to help organizations build and deploy software applications on the Salesforce platform.

Merivis, a nonprofit organization that trains military veterans in Salesforce cloud technology administration, has received a $100K grant from Accenture and its federal arm to offer training services in San Antonio, Texas.

ASRC Federal has built a web-based tool for the Department of Agriculture to process data on competitive federal grants under a program aimed at expanding availability of ethanol and biodiesel products.

Darryl Peek II, formerly a senior manager within Salesforce's global public sector unit, has joined Google as head of federal strategic partnerships. Peek said Monday in a LinkedIn post that he aims to create value, use thought leadership and provide support for government transformation efforts in his new capacity.