The enactment of zero trust cybersecurity policy — wherein, essentially, users are required to provide credentials at every new access point in a digital architecture — is an immense undertaking that comes with its share of long-term benefits. (The concept was ordered by the Biden Administration via Executive Order in May 2021 and its rollout for […] More

VMware has achieved authorization to offer its Horizon cloud service to federal, state, local and tribal government agencies looking to migrate to the cloud. The company said Thursday it secured high authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and State Risk and Authorization Management Program for its desktop virtualization service available […] More

Executive Mosaic is excited to present Max Peterson, vice president of Amazon Web Services’ Worldwide Public Sector, with his second Wash100 Award in recognition of his leading role in carrying AWS’ cloud innovation to new heights while solidifying the Amazon business arm’s standing as a key technology provider for the federal government. In its historic 10th year, […] More

Microsoft‘s new cloud environment is now generally available to host classified data for the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and federal civilian agencies. Office 365 Government Secret provides a set of cloud-based productivity, compliance, collaboration and security tools that can handle military and government data at Impact Level 6, Paul Lorimer, corporate vice president […] More

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft‘s federal arm and five-time Wash100 winner, said the company will continue to develop cloud capabilities and strategic partnerships to meet the Department of Defense’s joint warfighting needs and allow the military to establish an enterprise-level tactical cloud environment.  He wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Microsoft’s work on […] More

Leidos and Microsoft have demonstrated the successful pairing of the former’s Edge to Cloud technology with the Azure Cloud Infrastructure in an effort to bridge the gap between legacy and modern military systems. The two organizations showcased the collaboration, which represents a milestone in the development of the Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative, during the U.S. Army’s Project […] More

Microsoft has signed an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to provide cloud computing capabilities in support of NOAA’s environmental research and development efforts. The company will integrate cloud computing capabilities into a range of collaborative R&D efforts aimed at advancing the agency’s climate, weather and ocean prediction initiatives, NOAA said Wednesday.  Under […] More

AvePoint has named Kevin Briggs, former executive at Qualtrics’ federal business, as vice president of its U.S. public sector segment. Briggs will focus on AvePoint’s growing education, federal, state and local government clients that need support in cloud-based applications and digital collaboration security, the company said Tuesday. Before Qualtrics, Briggs worked for nearly a decade […] More

BAE Systems has partnered with Microsoft to equip its artificial intelligence-based wargaming platform with cloud computing capabilities to provide high-fidelity simulations across the air, land, sea, space and cyber domains.  The defense contractor said Tuesday that the Pioneer system will utilize the Azure cloud to deliver an immersive wargaming environment to military customers. “With tight […] More

IBM has appointed Terry Halvorsen, a previous Wash100 Award winner, and Mark Johnson to leadership positions within its federal market organization in line with its continued focus on driving government digital transformation. The appointments are aimed at expanding IBM’s mission to support the secure and efficient adoption of hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence technologies within the federal government […] More

NetImpact Strategies has received the Preferred Solution badge from Microsoft for its commercial-off-the-shelf software designed to help organizations automate the implementation of information security policies and manage their security posture. NetImpact said Tuesday its DX360 Security Accreditation, Remediation, Management of Operations and Risk in Microsoft AppSource is a cybersecurity platform that could help organizations manage […] More

Wes Anderson, vice president of defense at Microsoft, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz about the core values that make up the company’s successful culture as well as how we can all drive greater collaboration between industry and federal government and address the challenges on the business side of innovation in our sector during the latest Executive Spotlight […] More