Brett McMillen of Amazon Web Services and Keith Johnson of Leidos discussed in an article published Tuesday on Federal News Network the presence of data in the cloud and how to leverage data to build up citizen services. “The question is how do you make that data usable, not only for the agency that collected it but throughout the agencies of the federal government? … It should be available to commercial entities and citizens,” said McMillen, director of federal government at AWS.

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As if there was not enough instability in our current political climate, Congress has plans to limit funds for the U.S. Army‘s battlefield network development program until they submit a modernization plan for its tactical communications and data networks, according to a recent report by C4ISRNET. The final annual defense policy bill contains language to […] More

Keith E. Johnson who holds more than 36 years of experience in the federal marketplace has recently joined Spire Global, a maritime, weather, and aviation data and analytics company as the vice president and general manager for the federal business. Johnson has extensive experience in business development, and building start-up company’s selling products and services to the federal […] More

Riverbed Technology has facilitated discussions on government cloud adoption at the company’s first annual “Disrupt” event for public sector leaders in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. The event featured a keynote speech from Hansang Bae, Riverbed chief technology officer, where he discussed how federal agencies can deploy software-defined wide area network to simplify cloud systems, the company said Tuesday. […] More

Devra Kelly, former manager of business development for Harris‘ SwitchPlusIP product line, has joined Global Technology Systems as director of public safety and government markets at the Framingham, Massachusetts-based power management technology manufacturer. GTS Chairman Larry Murray said in a statement released Friday that Kelly will work with first responder clients to help them adopt company-made products […] More

Microsoft and Riverbed Technology have partnered to offer government customers access to application performance management tools designed to support information technology modernization and digital transformation efforts. Riverbed said Tuesday its SteelHead CX can now be purchased via Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud marketplace while Riverbed’s SteelCentral AppInternals platform will be available to agencies in the first quarter of 2017. “Federal agencies are seeking technology solutions that help […] More

Davis Johnson joined application and network services provider Riverbed Technology in April 2015 as vice president of a U.S. public sector business that works with government agencies that want new tools to manage network performance in their enterprise. Founded in 2002, San Francisco-headquartered Riverbed is known in the technology sector as the developer of a series of […] More

Davis Johnson serves as vice president for the U.S. public sector business at Riverbed Technology, where he oversees delivery of network and application performance management solutions to government clients. Before he joined Riverbed in April 2015, Johnson held a vice president role at Oracle with responsibility over the company’s hardware and infrastructure sales initiatives in […] More

MarketsandMarkets has predicted the global mHealth solutions market to hit $59.15 billion by 2020, representing a compound annual growth rate of 33.4 percent. The report cites the growing use of smartphones, tablets, connected medical devices, mHealth applications in healthcare management, 3G and 4G networks and patient-centric healthcare delivery as factors that will drive the market, […] More

The Small and Emerging Contractors Advisory Forum has appointed Ben Edson of VariQ and Sirena Johnson of Thompson Greenspon to two-year terms as members of the board of directors. SECAF said July 1 Edson and Johnson will work to support its networking, thought leadership and other programs for the government contracting industry. “The addition of Ben and Sirena to […] More

Ray O. Johnson, a former Lockheed Martin chief technology officer and senior vice president, has joined the international advisory board of New York-based nuclear reactor system developer Terrestrial Energy. The 30-year defense industry veteran said Wednesday that he aims to help bring Terrestrial Energy’s molten salt reactor technology to the marketplace. Johnson supervised more than […] More

Dr. Ray O. Johnson, formerly chief technology officer and senior vice president at Lockheed Martin, has joined Washington-based quantum computing analytics firm QxBranch as a member of the board of directors. “He brings deep insight into the underlying technology, the strategic needs of our customers and research partners, and relationships at the top level of […] More