Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Christopher Krebs, director of the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, will be inducted into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for serving as the agency’s first director and helping to protect the nation’s cyber infrastructure.

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Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON, told MeriTalk in an interview published Tuesday that agencies seeking to leverage artificial intelligence should have a comprehensive understanding of AI and analytics before integrating such technologies into their operations.

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The White House’s executive order to prioritize federal investments in artificial intelligence and the Department of Defense’s AI strategy reflect major developments in federal policy to advance the adoption of AI, MeriTalk reported Wednesday.

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Dan Tucker, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and head of the company’s digital platform capability team, has said that cloud operations and costs can “spiral out of control” if not managed well, Meritalk reported Monday. “A lot of agencies, as they move to the cloud are novices–for good reasons–at forecasting the costs,” he added.

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Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, told MeriTalk in an interview published Monday that artificial intelligence, internet of things and software-defined infrastructure are some of the emerging trends he sees in the federal information technology market. Harris discussed the importance of IT infrastructure modernization amid the presence of such tech capabilities.
 

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Dan Tucker, a vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, told Meritalk in an interview published Tuesday that federal agencies need to assess their data architecture and future requirements for data scalability and extensibility when moving workloads to the cloud. “You almost need the data strategy at the application and portfolio level before you can lay out your cloud strategy,” Tucker said.

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A panel of industry and federal leaders on Wednesday told the audience at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference how startups and small businesses could work with federal agencies and introduce emerging technologies to support government missions, MeriTalk reported Thursday. Some panelists said startups that aim to speed up their entry into the government marketplace could team […] More

Eighty-three percent of 150 federal information technology managers who responded to a MeriTalk survey believe that adopting cloud technology and updating networks would help agencies address missions over the next five years. MeriTalk said Monday the study, jointly underwritten by Riverbed Technology and Tech Data‘s government solutions business, also found that 98 percent of federal IT […] More

William Bender, senior vice president of strategic accounts and government relations at Leidos, said he has observed military services working to modernize information technology networks, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. The retired U.S. Air Force general described the military network modernization project as “complex” and noted that USAF’s projects include building software-based and virtual networks. In regard to security, Bender […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology and a consortium of technology companies have teamed up to build a “trusted cloud” platform that seeks to demonstrate how credible compute pools that leverage commercial systems can offer security capabilities, MeriTalk reported Monday. “These capabilities will not only provide assurance that cloud workloads are running on trusted […] More

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of Hortonworks‘ U.S. public sector business, has said he observed agencies tapping into internet-of-things platforms to store, process and compute data from multiple sources, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. He noted the Census Bureau has implemented handheld devices to support its digital information gathering process and the General Services Administration has adopted sensors to collect information about the […] More

Adam Clater, chief architect of Red Hat’s North American public sector business, has said there is a need for federal agencies to accept the integration of security in software development processes as a cultural change, MeriTalk reported Monday. Clater noted he believes it is important that agency managers grasp the need to standardize their way of […] More