Rocky Thurston joined the federal government business unit of AT&T in June as client executive vice president and focuses on activity in the segment’s Air Force market and others in the military. Thurston himself is a veteran of the Air Force as a retired flight engineer and held a managing director role at Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary […] More

Gary Noyes serves as chief financial officer at AT&T‘s government solutions business and is a more than two-decade veteran of the telecommunications company. In that capacity, he oversees the unit’s financial planning and analysis, internal controls, cost management, investment, accounting compliance and operations-related finance metrics. Noyes previously helped manage capital expenditures and growth programs at […] More

AT&T Corp. has been selected to update the communications infrastructure of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s claims centers. The company will deploy interactive voice response and contact center services under a four-year contract, AT&T said Thursday. AT&T also selected Interactive Intelligence to provide software-based services for the project. The center is designed to collect, authenticate and process […] More

Hitachi Consulting has partnered with AT&T to offer a cloud computing service for enterprise client applications through AT&T’s partner exchange program. AT&T will also support a Hitachi Data Systems-powered framework meant to help organizations adopt cloud technology, Hitachi Consulting said Monday. “By collaborating with Hitachi Consulting, we will help them accelerate their customers’ adoption of […] More

Richard Fisher, formerly president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, has joined AT&T as a member of the corporate development and finance committee of its board of directors. “His extensive financial, trade and regulatory expertise, along with his deep understanding of Mexico and Latin America, make him an invaluable addition to [the board],” Randall […] More

Chris Smith, vice president of technology at AT&T‘s government solutions unit and a former chief information officer from the Agriculture Department, has described his outlook on current developments in cyber-related legislation in a Federal News Radio interview. In that conversation posted Monday on Federal News Radio that he sees progress in movement toward legislation of cyber information sharing and the overhaul of […] More

A Computer Sciences Corp. and AT&T partnership has been awarded a potential seven-year contract to provide information technology network and communication services to Swedish power company Vattenfall. The team will work to build a workplace IT environment for approximately 30,000 end users at Vatenfall’s facilities worldwide, CSC said Tuesday. “Sweden is a key market for […] More

Stacy Schwartz has served as vice president of public safety at AT&T‘s government solutions business since December 2013. Prior to her current role, she was VP for the organization’s sales center and led efforts to market wired and wireless communications products to federal civilian agencies. She has worked to help the company build customer relationships […] More

Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T’s government solutions business and an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, has highlighted the company’s mission to provide mobile technology services to government clients through its existing contracts. Kapoor wrote in a blog post published Monday that federal agencies are adopting mobility, cloud services, collaboration tools and analytics to […] More

Casey Coleman, client executive vice president at AT&T‘s government solutions business, forecasts industry to drive an interlinking of social, mobile, analytics and cloud systems in 2015, she told FCW in an interview published Tuesday. She told interviewer Colby Hochmuth that technological convergence could help federal agencies to better manage workloads with any device. Coleman also […] More

Chris Smith, vice president of technology for AT&T‘s government solutions business, has told Federal News Radio that five recently passed cybersecurity bills could help U.S. government agencies develop a unified approach to infrastructure security. Smith told Francis Rose in an interview aired Tuesday that the Federal Information Security Modernization Act brings clarity about what roles […] More

Chris Smith serves as vice president of technology for the government solutions business at AT&T, a role the company announced him for in late 2013. In this position, Smith leads 175 technologists that develop products and services for the telecommunications provider’s federal agency customers. The 25-year federal market veteran previously served as U.S. federal chief technology and innovation […] More