Executive Biz spoke with Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer, about HP Federal’s role driving information technology modernization and cybersecurity enhancements. “One of the largest (and often overlooked) risks facing the federal government is an unsecured printer … From a security perspective, whether it’s documents left in the printer tray or a default password that has […] More

A new report by P&S Market Research says the government cloud market in North America is estimated to generate more than $15 billion in revenue by 2023. Increased demand and investments in cloud-based systems from government agencies will drive the projected revenue growth in the region, P&S Market Research said Monday. Key players in the government cloud market […] More

Mike Lawrie, chairman, president and CEO of DXC Technology, has said the company saw a 13 percent growth in its cloud business during the third quarter of fiscal 2018 that ended Dec. 31, CRN reported Friday. Lawrie told analysts Thursday that DXC has introduced five centers worldwide to advance digital transformation efforts and experienced progress […] More

AT&T has been named a teammate on DXC Technology‘s pursuit of the Next Generation Enterprise Network recompete contract for information technology services to the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps. Virginia-based DXC, which currently holds the $3.5 billion NGEN contract, said in a press release it is forming an industry team to chase the follow-on award. […] More

The World Economic Forum has introduced a program that seeks to address a global skills gap and job displacement challenge in the information technology sector. PwC said Tuesday the IT Industry Skills Initiative seeks to train and provide resources for 1 million people via the SkillSET portal by January 2021. The portal will offer a PwC-developed […] More

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 Hat said Wednesday. Paul Smith, […] More

A computing platform that CSRA upgraded for the National Institutes of Health has been named to the Top500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. NIH’s Biowulf cluster ranked 66th on the Top500’s 2017 list, CSRA said Monday. Biowulf works to process simultaneous computations related to genomics, statistical analysis, image processing and other areas in biomedical research. CSRA […] More

DXC Technology intends to set up a new center in New Orleans, Louisiana, to support the development and delivery of cloud computing, data analytics, cybersecurity, applications, intelligent automation and other digital platforms and services to customers worldwide. The company said Monday it expects the Digital Transformation Center to generate approximately 2,000 employees in the next five […] More

“If we can start adopting standards for data and system interoperability, we will be able to make tremendous advances in understanding how we can best support the total population across America.” EM: Let’s start with your background. Bill Lovell: I’ve spent my adult life inside federal healthcare, starting as a laboratory scientist in the military health […] More

A new Deltek report says the Department of Homeland Security spent a total of $437.3 million on contracts for continuous diagnostics and mitigation and continuous monitoring-as-a-service offerings during the past three fiscal years. The General Services Administration spent approximately $12.6 million on CDM/CMaaS contracts over the past three fiscal years, followed by the Labor Department at $9 […] More

CSRA has led an industry team in efforts to boost the computing capacity of the National Institutes of Health‘s supercomputing cluster. The company said Wednesday it installed the second computing power increment to the Biowulf supercomputing system designed to run computations in genomics, image processing, statistical analysis and other biomedical research efforts. The second increment follows […] More

Chip Bergh, lead independent director of HP Inc.‘s board of directors since March, has been elected as the personal computer and printing company’s independent board chairman. HP said Wednesday Bergh succeeds Meg Whitman, who held the chairman post since the former Hewlett-Packard organization split in November 2015 into two independent companies now known as HP and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Whitman is […] More