Lumen Technologies and VMware have expanded their partnership to increase design, development and delivery time of edge computing, as well as deliver more secure, work-from-anywhere systems. “The Lumen-VMware partnership will provide the exact combination required to transform business processes and customer experience,” said Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer of VMware.

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Today, Globys has completed the amalgamation of the CenturyLink instances into one SaaS environment that will provide customer-facing capabilities for invoice analysis, consolidation, reporting and payment. The migration will support Lumen’s digital transformation under the new brand. The move will enable customers to view their product and service usage in near real-time, instead of navigating through multiple portals to review, analyze and pay their bills.

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Lumen Technologies has launched a digital procurement platform to  simplify the way businesses buy their networking, edge cloud and security solutions, the company reported on Monday. Lumen’s self-service online portal will enable customers to configure, order, purchase and deploy new products. This new digital buying experience is a foundational part of that," said Shaun Andrews, Lumen chief marketing officer.

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David Young, senior vice president of Lumen’s Public Sector and global hyperscaler business and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding CenturyLink’s recent rebranding to Lumen Technologies. He discussed Lumen’s new initiatives, advanced platform for managing data and applications, and work across government agencies to support real-time decision making. 

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Microsoft has obtained a court order and carried out a technical action to counter Trickbot, a botnet known for distributing ransomware, to protect election infrastructure, government agencies, health care facilities, financial service institutions and businesses from ransomware attacks.

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Jan Niemiec, vice president of sales at Cisco, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the challenges of driving digital transformation efforts for the company to stay ahead of innovation in the federal landscape and support the missions of its customers. In addition, Niemiec also discussed recent growth initiatives and driving value for Cisco in a highly […] More

Allen Ronk, an experienced industry leader who has founded and led various aerospace and defense businesses, will take on new roles as the CEO of Denali Communications Group and president of its largest subsidiary, Brandywine Communications. He will oversee Denali’s multiple businesses focused on engineering electronic communication technologies, including Brandywine, a manufacturer of precision time […] More

Axon announced on Tuesday the appointment of Danielle Citron to a board that aims to guide the responsible development and use of AI-powered technologies being developed by the company.

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Raytheon’s BBN Technologies subsidiary will lead a team that secured a $14.5 million contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity to develop a technology platform for geopolitical event forecasting. The consortium aims to create an automated system to help forecasters predict societal events such as conflicts, disease outbreaks and elections as part of IARPA’s Hybrid […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded research contracts under the Hybrid Forecasting Competition program that aims to enhance the accuracy of geopolitical event prediction methods. IARPA selected HRL Laboratories, Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary and the University of Southern California to conduct research on hybrid forecasting systems under the HFC program, the Office of the Director of […] More

The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has chosen 10 startup companies to join a new research-and-development program that seeks to build  wearable devices for first responders. DHS said Thursday the EMERGE 2016: Wearable Technology program offers startups the opportunity to equip emergency response personnel with body-worn electronics, sensors and integrated voice and data communications systems. “We need […] More