Teresa Carlson, vice president for the global public sector business at Amazon Web Services, and Kay Kapoor, president of AT&T Government Services, have joined the Professional Services Council’s executive advisory board for technology policies, FCW reported Tuesday. Jonathan Lutton writes other new additions to the Technology Policy Council include Attain LLC Chairman and CEO Greg Baroni and […] More

Teresa Carlson serves as the vice president of the world wide public sector at Amazon Web Services where she is responsible for operations, strategy, sales and business development. The more than 20-year industry veteran is also the head public policy advisor for the global public sector at AWS and oversees revenue and partnership strategy. Prior to joining […] More

An AWS panel will pick seven winners for the practices and partners in innovation categories for the City on a Cloud Innovation Challenge between May and June, AWS said Tuesday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide public sector at AWS, said the contest is intended to recognize municipalities and partners who could help develop […] More

Amazon Web Services has a obtained provisional authorization from the Defense Department for all four of the company’s infrastructure regions in the U.S. AWS will extend its cloud services to additional defense agencies under the DoD Cloud Security Model for the first and second impact levels, AWS said Wednesday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of the worldwide […] More

Teresa Carlson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ worldwide public sector, has said agencies will control costs, enhance quality and boost the speed of cloud services in 2014, FCW reported Thursday. Carlson writes that the government and private sector have already shifted focus to core business operations from running data centers. Agencies are now able […] More

Max Peterson, vice president of the worldwide public sector business at Amazon Web Services (AWS), has been named a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, the most acclaimed and coveted award in all of government contracting (GovCon), for his leadership with AWS to drive cloud adoption and capabilities across the globe as well as driving innovation for the […] More

Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Google and other technology companies are reaching out to the federal government to help with coronavirus pandemic response efforts, FedScoop reported Monday. “This is unprecedented and so the response from the tech sector has been unprecedented,” Nick Sinai, a senior adviser at venture capital firm Insight Partners, told the publication.

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Executive Mosaic, the leading executive media and events company in the government contracting “GovCon” industry, announced the 2020 winners of the highly coveted and prestigious Wash100 Award. The full list of winners and more information about the award can be found on Wash100.com. 

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More than 300 government officials from 40 countries joined the three-day Amazon Web Services Government Delegation Program at re:Invent in Las Vegas to discuss the barriers to digital transformation and ways to address such challenges.

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The Northern Virginia Community College and George Mason University have partnered with Amazon Web Services to establish a bachelor of applied science degree that will cover cloud computing as well as DevOps, cybersecurity and software development.

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NCAA March Madness is one of the most anticipated sporting events each year. The spectacle of seeing the best teams and the best players in the U.S compete for one of the top prizes in sports generates excitement. Just like March Madness, you can participate in the GovCon competition yourself. This year, the competition to win […] More

Amazon Web Services and Lockheed Martin have agreed to combine their technology platforms to provide clients the capability to download and upload satellite data and commands. Lockheed will integrate its Verge antenna network with the AWS Ground Station to help users quickly download, analyze and process satellite data amid weather disturbances and other unplanned outages, the […] More