Stephen Skarlatos, an information technology veteran for 39 years, has been named chief information officer of IT services provider Planned Systems International.

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Semantic AI has hired Sally Kenyon Grant, Neal Harper and Thomas Jurewicz to take leadership roles to support the firm’s efforts to drive growth in the cyber, cloud and government market areas.

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StackRox has received approval from the Department of Homeland Security to offer a container security technology to the U.S. government's Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program.

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ECS inaugurated a facility in Northern Virginia to help government and commercial customers address cyber threats with the use of technology.

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Recently, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Rob Sherry, the senior director of federal healthcare for VMware regarding the greatest challenges facing the company and potential future initiatives to make the process easier for their customers. “When you have built and are part of a successful team, that’s something you take with you throughout your career and the […] More

Several technology companies have expressed support to the Federal Reserve’s plan to come up with a real-time payment network designed to connect all U.S. banks, credit unions and other financial institutions, Forbes reported Wednesday. “Only the Federal Reserve can serve as the catalyst to achieve real-time payments ubiquity in a timely manner,” a trade association representing […] More

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, has introduced a new contract that outlines a set of principles for internet companies to protect privacy, advance transparency of their algorithms and address online abuse, The Telegraph reported Monday. Berners-Lee said at the Web Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, the “Magna Carta for the web” was launched in response […] More

Six companies have issued a joint statement at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference to address barriers to the use of technology platforms that work to facilitate health care interoperability. Microsoft, IBM, Google, Salesforce, Oracle and Amazon have vowed to work together to “unlock the potential in health care data, to deliver better outcomes at […] More

Equinix has wrapped up the integration of Verizon’s Terremark Federal Group subsidiary into its government solutions business. Equinix said Tuesday it expects TFG to broaden its contract vehicles and help build up its capability to bring data center platforms and interconnection services to federal agencies and civilian research and education organizations as they advance their […] More

ExecutiveBiz recently talked with Tiffany Gates, president and chief executive officer, about trends in data analytics and where she sees Novetta expanding in the future. “Our customers want to understand how emerging approaches such as deep learning can be applied to their problem sets, particularly in computer vision and object recognition. We think there are […] More

Cloud computing has reached a flash point, picked up and picked apart by powerhouse tech companies from Amazon to Microsoft to Google. Applying cloud computing to the public sector, however, is a different beast altogether. To discuss the methodology of how to bring the cloud to market, ExecutiveBiz reached out to Wayne Lewandowski, Senior Vice […] More

NIC has released its personal assistant platform for digital government services in all 50 states. The company said Monday the Gov2Go tool works to combine a user’s interactions with all levels of government in one platform to eliminate the need to navigate different websites, mobile applications and platforms for federal, state, county and city government. Gov2Go’s initial set […] More