NTT Group has signed an agreement to help the state of Nevada and the city of Las Vegas adopt a distributed platform for urban modernization efforts. Las Vegas will begin testing the company’s smart city offering in spring 2019 and consider implementing a full-scale service by summer 2019, NTT said Friday. The platform is based on the Cognitive Foundation architecture […] More

Shamlan Siddiqi, chief technology officer of NTT DATA‘s public sector business, will take part in a panel discussion on Nov. 13 at the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Capital Cybersecurity Summit in Tysons Corner, Va. NVTC said Wednesday panelists and keynote speakers at its third annual event will offer their perspectives on cyber-related emerging technology, digital services and […] More

Eric Clark, former president of the application services division at NTT Data Services, has been named chief digital officer of the Plano, Texas-based technology services provider. The company said Wednesday Clark will aim to address clients’ systems design requirements through the use of digital, cloud and security technologies. Bob Pryor, CEO of NTT Data Services, said the […] More

An NTT Data division has secured approval from the Small Business Administration to provide business development support to Virginia-based information technology services contractor Spear through a mentor-protege agreement. The agreement between Spear and NTT Data Services is part of SBA’s All Small Mentor-Protege Program and could run for up to three years with a potential […] More

NTT Data has secured a position on the second iteration of the General Services Administration‘s governmentwide contract vehicle for information technology services. Tim Conway, president of NTT Data’s public sector business, said in statement released Monday the company seeks to provide technology-based services to current and potential federal customers through the Alliant 2 contract. GSA issued […] More

Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch and Tim Conway, president of NTT Data’s public sector business, have been appointed to the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board of directors for fiscal year 2018-2019. Desch is one of the eight executives appointed by Rich Montoni, NVTC board chairman and vice chairman at Maximus, to the trade association’s board, […] More

NTT Group and Dell Technologies have teamed up to launch a smart cities program in Las Vegas in support of the city’s digital transformation effort. The companies will field a smart city platform that will integrate NTT’s Cognitive Foundation architecture with Dell EMC’s internet-of-things gateways and hyperconverged infrastructure and VMware’s vCloud network functions virtualization function, […] More

NTT Data‘s services division and the Georgia Technology Authority have extended a partnership agreement to help the state’s government entities manage information technology assets. The company said Monday it has supported more than 41,000 computers and operating systems built for public sector employees throughout Georgia over the past nine years. “We’re extremely proud of our work with […] More

NTT Data Services has obtained a “Gold Partner” status from Axiomatics and will begin to offer the latter’s authorization management suite for applications, databases and big data to federal clients. Both companies aim to help customer agencies gain access to control software, architectural guidance and professional services necessary to implement external authorization tools, Axiomatics said Wednesday. “Secure […] More

NTT Group‘s security subsidiary has partnered with ThreatQuotient to offer threat intelligence services using the latter’s threat intelligence platform. Analysts at NTT Security‘s Global Threat Intelligence Centers will use ThreatQuotient’s ThreatQ platform to process data and produce threat intelligence to support the cybersecurity efforts of consulting and managed services customers, NTT Security said Wednesday. “Our partnership with ThreatQuotient is designed […] More

NTT Data will offer GDS360-built information protection and data security platforms to the former’s public sector client base as part of a multi-year teaming agreement. GDS360 said Wednesday its end-to-end products combine elements such as zero-knowledge encryption key management, user identity management, behavioral analytics and access audits to help clients meet data security requirements. The company’s […] More

NTT DATA closed its estimated $3 billion acquisition of the former Dell Services business in November 2016 to expand information technology services and consulting work for public sector agencies with the backing of a global IT company. Shortly after the deal’s March 2016 announcement, NTT DATA Public Sector President and 2017 Wash100 inductee Tim Conway told ExecutiveBiz the […] More