ICF has partnered with Google‘s cloud business in an effort to provide federal agencies and other public sector customers with expanded cloud and analytics services in support of their digital transformation initiatives. The firm said Tuesday new Google Cloud capabilities will be paired with ICF’s expertise in public sector domain and technology consulting to help […] More

Two Google Cloud executives described how the company’s cybersecurity framework can help agencies adopt zero trust principles to ensure the protection of cloud-based data assets and applications. Jeanette Manfra and Dan Prieto wrote in a joint blog post published Friday the BeyondCorp Enterprise platform offers an integrated approach for government organizations to defend against security […] More

Lesta Brady, director of federal civilian sales at Google’s cloud business, said the use of Google Cloud and Google Earth Engine, a platform meant for Earth science data and analysis, helped the U.S. Forest Service at the Department of Agriculture analyze a decade’s worth of land-cover changes within an hour. The Forest Service developed new […] More

Google’s government and education arm has named cloud and analytics executive Stephen Elliott as its head of artificial intelligence solutions. According to his LinkedIn profile, Elliott will collaborate with public sector customers in his new role to deliver cloud and artificial intelligence technologies, with a particular focus on leveraging the Palantir Foundry platform. Elliott began his […] More

Google’s cloud business has secured a multiyear, $13 million contract to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs a platform for the development of web-based tools intended to simplify former military personnel’s access to health care services and records. Google Cloud said Wednesday VA will implement the Apigee application program programming interface management platform to further […] More

Google has launched a new cloud-based sandbox environment in an effort to help government agencies, laboratories and academic institutions advance research, development and prototyping of tools for both beginner and experienced users. The RAD Lab is designed to provide a virtual space where teams can experiment and create cloud environments without the risk of affecting […] More

Mike Daniels, vice president of global public sector at Google Cloud, has highlighted how the Air Force Research Laboratory employs the company’s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-certified cloud-based productivity and collaboration platform to ensure scientists and engineers have access to a hybrid environment where they can continue working together. Lab personnel are now using […] More

Google has secured high authorization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based collaboration platform. Mike Daniels, vice president of Google Cloud’s global public sector business, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the FedRAMP High authorization given to Google Workspace will provide federal customers a secure environment to collaborate with other […] More

Sundar Pichai, CEO of Alphabet Inc. and its subsidiary Google, has encouraged the federal government to draft a policy that actively addresses international cyber threats and fosters cyber innovation considering the previous cybersecurity breaches attributed to hackers from China and Russia, Wall Street Journal reported Monday. In an interview, Pichai said the increasingly connected world […] More

Palo Alto Networks has combined its security expertise with Google Cloud‘s scalable infrastructure to jointly design and engineer a new service aimed at addressing security challenges and helping customers detect threats that may harm their cloud networks. The new Cloud Intrusion Detection System is developed to assist cloud users in learning more about network-based threats […] More

Google Cloud has unveiled a set of service offerings meant to help federal, state and local government agencies establish zero trust architecture in compliance with the new executive order on cybersecurity. The company said Tuesday its new service offerings are Zero Trust Assessment and Planning, Secure Application Access Anywhere and Active Cyber Threat Detection. The […] More

The Defense Innovation Unit has issued “success memos” to Zscaler, Google‘s cloud business and McAfee after the technology vendors met prototyping objectives of the agency’s Secure Cloud Management program. All three companies developed platforms that work to help DIU users secure access to software-as-a-service applications via the internet, the Department of Defense’s innovation arm said […] More