CenturyLink has won a potential two-year, $8.5 million contract to design, plan and install a telecommunications system for the Marine Corps in Quantico, Va. and Washington. The company said Wednesday that it will also work to support Marine Corps tenants such as the Navy Criminal Investigations Service and Marine Helicopter Squadron One, which flies the U.S. president onboard a helicopter. Diana […] More

CenturyLink’s technology solutions unit has been selected to provide colocation services for the additional data center needed for eDiscovery company KNJ’s expansion into forensic technology services, the two companies said Thursday. Drew Leonard, vice president for colocation product management at CenturyLink, said the company will work with KNJ to address its added storage and information […] More

CenturyLink Technology Solutions will use an IO software-defined data center infrastructure to extend its colocation and managed hosting services into the Phoenix market. The CenturyLink subsidiary aims to deliver up to 9 megawatts in data center capacity to Phoenix customers using IO’s Intelligence Control platform, IO said Wednesday. Jeff Von Deylen, president of CenturyLink Technology […] More

CenturyLink Technology Solutions, formerly known as Savvis, is working to expand its data center reach in Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz. with the help of IO. Under the partnership, CenturyLink Technology will use IO’s Intelligent Control technology platform to provide control, data collection and business intelligence services across data centers, CenturyLink Technology announced Wednesday. Users and […] More

CenturyLink has changed the name of its data hosting business Savvis with the goal of reflecting a collective offering of enterprise information technology services. Savvis has been renamed CenturyLink Technology Solutions and will led by President Jeff Von Deylen, CenturyLink announced Tuesday. “Though our name is changing, our customers will continue to be served by the same […] More

Ian Dix has been named vice president for business marketing at CenturyLink where he is responsible for the business solutions group’s product, program and field marketing. Prior to CenturyLink, the more than 25-year marketing veteran served as senior vice president of marketing and market development at Trilogy Software. Dix was chief marketing officer at Xtendwave, SafeNet […] More

Benjamin Mourad, formerly a technical director and chief architect for cyber at Science Applications International Corp., has been appointed senior director and solution architect at digital transformation company DMI. Mourad will oversee the development of next-generation artificial intelligence-powered zero trust architectures to support the cyber mission requirements of federal and commercial customers, DMI said Monday.

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The government contracting industry relies on partnerships to fulfill various missions for different domains. Federal agencies tap into their partners’ products and services to cater to their missions’ needs and address issues conserving defense, costs, mission effectiveness, and many more.   At the helm of advancing new technologies and solutions and promoting health relationships with […] More

Lumen Technologies has received a $223 million task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency to deliver secure, mission-critical communications services to the Department of Defense. Under the award, Lumen will provide modern hybrid-cloud and audio-conferencing services in support of the DOD’s novel Voice over Internet Protocol system, which is designed to remove the need for desk phones […] More

Cloud plays a major role in the public sector’s overarching information technology modernization and digital transformation goals. But the cloud is still relatively new in practice, and organizations are still working through how to best leverage it.  There are many instances in which the public cloud makes sense, and many instances in which it does […] More

Executive Mosaic is pleased to welcome Dave Young, senior vice president of strategic sales at Lumen Technologies, as an inductee into the 2022 class of the prestigious Wash100 Award, which is annually bestowed upon the top 100 executives of consequence in the government contracting community for their notable impacts and contributions across the federal sector. This is Young’s […] More

David Young, senior vice president of public sector and hyperscaler business at Lumen Technologies and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, said public sector agencies should take a holistic approach as they develop plans to comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity and deliver secure digital experiences to employees and citizens. Young wrote in […] More