Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent as an inductee into the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her vision and continuing efforts to modernize cybersecurity and information technology in federal agencies.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Dana Deasy, Defense Department chief information officer, has been inducted into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for his leadership promoting and developing artificial intelligence capabilities and spearheading cloud adoption effort. This marks the first Wash100 award for Deasy.
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A coalition of technology companies has begun efforts to counter the Defense Department’s plan to pursue a single-award contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement program, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Sources told the publication the coalition includes Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, Red Hat, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies, SAP’s U.S. arm and General Dynamics’ CSRA unit. […] More

IBM has partnered with companies, universities and national research laboratories to study quantum computing and identify its potential applications for financial services, automotive, materials, chemical and electronic industries. The New York-based company said Thursday it will collaborate with JPMorgan Chase, Samsung, Daimler, JSR, Barclays, Honda, Nagase and Hitachi Metals through the IBM Q Network. The IBM […] More

SANS Institute will host a cyber threat intelligence summit and training beginning on Feb. 3 through 10 in Alexandria, Virginia, with focus on analysis techniques. Threat intelligence professionals from Lockheed Martin, JPMorgan Chase and the Department of Homeland Security‘s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center will discuss how to develop cyber threat intelligence analysis systems, […] More

Leidos Chief Financial Officer Mark Sopp will represent the company as one of the presenters at a J.P. Morgan-hosted conference in New York this week. The three-day Aviation, Transportation and Industrials Conference kicks off Tuesday. Sopp, a Wash100 inductee for 2015, will be joined by Leidos Chief Technology Officer Dr. S. Gulu Gambhir in the […] More

Many Fortune 500 companies are seeking to hire chief information security officers or board directors who have experience and skills in cybersecurity, Reuters reported Friday. Nadia Damouni writes that Cardinal Health, Deere & Co., JPMorgan Chase, PepsiCo and The United Services Automobile Association are among the firms that are searching data security professionals in order […] More