Amazon Web Services and Accenture have teamed up to establish a new business group that will work to help commercial firms migrate and manage their data workloads and applications onto the AWS Cloud platform. The Accenture AWS Business Group will also provide services for enterprise clients, such as application migration and development, refactoring, architecture and […] More

Amazon Web Services has introduced a fresh data transport tool for customers designed to transfer large volumes of data using secure appliances. AWS Import/Export Snowball works to transport up to 50 terabytes of data into and out of AWS and protect the transfer process with secure enclosures, 256-bit encryption and a trusted platform module, AWS […] More

Amazon Web Services has certified Agilex Technologies as a consulting partner in recognition of Agilex’s AWS competencies the company developed with accredited professionals and four customer references. Roger Baker, Agilex chief strategy officer, said Thursday the company works to reconfigure existing systems so that they operate in the cloud platform. “Having led some of the government’s largest […] More

XO Communications has become a member of the Amazon Web Services Partner Network to offer AWS Direct Connect network users access XO’s Enterprise Ethernet and Intelligent WAN product portfolio. XO said Wednesday it aims to give AWS Direct Connect users secure connections of between 1 and 10 gigabytes per second, as well as application visibility for cloud-based enterprise applications. Don MacNeil, XO chief […] More

An AWS panel will pick seven winners for the practices and partners in innovation categories for the City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge between May and June, AWS said Tuesday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector at AWS, said the contest is intended to recognize municipalities and partners who could help develop […] More

Amazon Web Services has moved to introduce its cloud-based services in China in an effort to help address market demands, Xinhuanet reported Thursday. Meng Jing writes AWS will kick off its cloud-computing services in the country with a limited preview early in 2014. Andy Jassy, senior vice president of AWS, told a recent Beijing conference […] More

U.S. Customs and Border Protection intends to recompete a multiple-award contract for the procurement of cloud computing services. CBP expects the acquisition effort to have a ceiling value of over $100 million and anticipates release of a solicitation for the planned indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract by May 1, according to a notice published Wednesday on the Acquisition Planning Forecast System.

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SAIC will deliver information technology services for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs through a potential 10-year, $60.7 billion award. IT services provided under the Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation Two contract, or T4NG2, will span 11 functional areas and support both the VA and additional agencies, SAIC announced from its Reston, Virginia headquarters on Wednesday.

SAIC is sponsoring the Potomac Officers Club's Achieving Transformative Cooperation for National Defense Forum on March 14. To learn more and register to attend the forum, click here.

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General Dynamics Information Technology has received the Amazon Web Services 2023 North America Collaboration Partner Award for delivering artificial intelligence and machine learning services in support of the Navy Enterprise Service Desk program. The recognition marks GDIT's third AWS award, following the Government Competency Public Sector Consulting Partner Award in 2019 and the Global Public Sector Partner Award in 2021, the General Dynamics business unit said Thursday.

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Lumen Technologies has appointed artificial intelligence expert Satish Lakshmanan as its new chief product officer. The telecommunications company said Monday that Lakshmanan was previously part of Amazon Web Services, where he served as global leader for artificial intelligence services.

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Noelle Russell, an artificial intelligence executive with more than two decades of industry experience, has been named data and AI market lead at Accenture's federal services business arm. She will oversee go-to-market and innovation strategies to drive growth across Accenture Federal Services' data and AI practice in her new position, the company said in a media alert released Tuesday, of which Executive Mosaic has received a copy.

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The Department of Homeland Security is planning to award a contract worth up to $100 million to procure operations and maintenance services in support of its Student and Exchange Visitor Information System. According to an Acquisition Planning Forecast System notice, DHS requires design, development, test, deployment, O&M, engineering and security support for the web-based system that manages data on international students and exchange visitors.

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