Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Al Whitmore, president of intelligence and security sector at BAE Systems’ U.S. arm, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for leading BAE to major contracts in R&D, the cloud and other emerging technologies. This marks Whitmore’s second consecutive Wash100 award.

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ExecutiveBiz spoke with David Kushner, vice president of federal sales, regarding ViON’s multi-cloud offerings and how the company is helping federal agencies modernize their IT infrastructure. “Organizations have gone from cloud first to cloud smart and have a much better understanding of how to modernize their businesses without having to spend millions of dollars.” ExecutiveBiz: […] More

NTT Group has signed an agreement to help the state of Nevada and the city of Las Vegas adopt a distributed platform for urban modernization efforts. Las Vegas will begin testing the company’s smart city offering in spring 2019 and consider implementing a full-scale service by summer 2019, NTT said Friday. The platform is based on the Cognitive Foundation architecture […] More

Keith Salisbury, vice president of federal business at Pivotal Software, told Government Matters in a video interview posted Wednesday that he believes the Defense Department needs to accelerate the way it develops applications in order to win future wars. “We believe the battlefield of tomorrow is one where you need to show up software-enabled if you expect […] More

Eric Clark, former president of the application services division at NTT Data Services, has been named chief digital officer of the Plano, Texas-based technology services provider. The company said Wednesday Clark will aim to address clients’ systems design requirements through the use of digital, cloud and security technologies. Bob Pryor, CEO of NTT Data Services, said the […] More

A coalition of multinational technology firms has volunteered to make public their company policies governing the disclosure and sharing of known software vulnerabilities. Signatories to the Cybersecurity Tech Accord announced Monday they were publishing their Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure policies, a concept endorsed by the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise, an international platform for governments, companies and other […] More

BAE Systems has partnered with Splunk to incorporate a security technology into a cloud computing platform designed to help federal civilian, defense and intelligence agencies monitor networks. The federated secure cloud BAE developed with Dell EMC will employ the Splunk Enterprise platform equipped with security features and machine learning algorithms, BAE said Wednesday. Peder Jungck, vice president and […] More

Cubic‘s transportation systems business will collaborate with Delerrok to offer cloud-based electronic ticketing systems to transit agencies under an investment and alliance agreement. The partnership seeks to integrate Delerrok’s TouchPass electronic fare collection technology with Cubic’s Transit Management as a Service platform in an effort to help operators simplify the ticketing process through a pay-as-you-go […] More

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate will host a live Facebook Tech Talk on May 29 to initiate a discussion on a program designed to commercialize technologies that stem from  government-funded projects. DHS announced that it will present how the Transition to Practice program is accelerating the process of developing and distributing […] More

To comment on Microsoft’s development of machine learning and cloud infrastructure, the usability of as-a-Service offerings and the widespread usage of artificial intelligence in the federal marketspace, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Microsoft’s Scott Price, General Manager of the company’s National Security Group. “Any agency leaning forward to drive artificial intelligence and machine learning has our attention, […] More

ExecutiveBiz recently spoke with Eleanor Desai about Clear Entropy’s role providing information technology modernization to federal agencies. “It’s important to me that Clear Entropy keeps a relentless curiosity for answers to our customers’ problems, and that we’re always looking for new ways to innovate and change the game.” ExecutiveBiz: You and the Clear Entropy team have […] More

“We have a front row seat to the threats, exposure to information, networks and infrastructure…Cyber security is a very real issue and [NTT] can help.”   EM: Being with NTT DATA since 2005 it looks like you have worn several ‘different hats’. Tell our readers about your work experiences that has brought you to this […] More