The National 4-H Council has selected a student from McLean County in Illinois as the winner of the 2016 Youth in Action award for science, technology, engineering and math, which is partly sponsored by Hughes Network Systems. Winner Thaddeus Hughes will receive $10,000 in prizes consisting of a higher education scholarship and additional STEM programming for his hometown from […] More

Diane Murray transitioned into the role of federal civilian sector leader at consulting services contractor Deloitte earlier this year as the next step in her respective 18-year information technology and professional consulting careers. The firm also cited Murray’s background in areas such as IT governance and program management, business intelligence and data management upon the announcement of her new position at […] More

Evan Slack, desktop virtualization director at Carahsoft, has called for information technology departments to automatically deploy security patches that correspond with access points such as mobile and connected devices. Slack wrote in a blog post published Wednesday organizations should get serious about addressing security gaps amid the development of new devices and applications that access agency networks […] More

San Francisco, Calif.-based data wrangling software company Trifacta has formed a partnership with government technology reseller Carahsoft in a push to accelerate access public sector agencies have to the former company’s products. Carahsoft will offer Trifacta’s software to federal agencies that seek to carry out new analytics initiatives and build up scale of analysis, Trifacta said Tuesday. Trifacta served as a […] More

Genesys Works has expanded its information technology internship program for high school students from low-income families to Northern Virginia and Washington D.C. metropolitan area. The non-profit organization will collaborate with Fairfax County public schools to carry out the expansion which was made possible partly through AT&T‘s $500,000 contribution, Genesys said Monday. George Newstrom, Dell Services Federal Government vice […] More

Amit Singh, president of Google for Work, has announced that Google will deliver what the search giant calls unlimited cloud storage to U.S. government agencies through the Google Apps for Work offering. Singh wrote in a blog entry posted Friday that the company has received authorization under FedRAMP — the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program — to offer the cloud-based […] More

Lockheed Martin has transported an 11th Littoral Combat Ship the company built for the U.S. Navy to the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin. USS Sioux City will be outfitted and tested at the shipyard prior to its scheduled delivery to the Navy in 2017, Lockheed said Saturday. “The future USS Sioux City’s interchangeable mission modules will […] More

Sudeep Dharan, formerly senior vice president of product development at Razorsight, has joined cloud-based talent management software provider Acendre as chief technology officer. He will oversee the development and implementation of Acendre’s technology goals and product roadmap, Acendre said Monday. “Sudeep brings a strong track record of technology-driven innovation that will enable us to meet […] More

Salesforce.com has received an authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer Salesforce Analytics Cloud with its Salesforce Government Cloud portfolio to public sector agencies. Dave Rey, executive vice president of sales for Salesforce’s North American public sector business, wrote in a blog entry posted Tuesday that Salesforce Analytics Cloud works to provide data intelligence to agencies. He added that […] More

A survey report from Deloitte‘s Center for Health Solutions indicates that the use of technology to manage health, access the healthcare system and purchase health-related goods or services has increased among U.S. consumers. The company said Monday technology use among users with major chronic conditions increased from 19 percent in 2013 to 32 percent in 2014, while 71 percent of the survey […] More

Steve Harris joined Dell Federal — the technology maker’s federal government organization — in March 2014 to lead that business as vice president and general manager. Harris previously led Dell’s state and local government and education business as area vice president for nearly five years and has held other sales leadership roles at the company […] More

Novetta has unveiled a new version of its network-traffic analytics software Novetta Cyber Analytics, which features new functions for prebuilt queries, asynchronous decoding and query sharing. The company said Thursday Novetta Cyber Analytics version 4.4 works to provide near-real-time visibility into the enterprise network. “As a whole, the cybersecurity industry continues to focus on automating security analysis,” said […] More