Jennifer Ward, senior director of solutions engineering at Salesforce, said using a specific cloud computing model can help federal agencies modernize systems, save money and increase customer satisfaction.

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Grimt Habtemariam, federal cloud strategist at Cisco, wrote in a piece posted Monday on AFCEA that agencies must assess their networks’ capacity to handle commercial cloud implementation to meet future mission demands.

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Executive Mosaic is glad to unveil Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for leading the company's efforts to help federal clients modernize IT infrastructure, improve cybersecurity posture and transition to cloud-based platforms.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent as an inductee into the 2019 edition of the Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for her vision and continuing efforts to modernize cybersecurity and information technology in federal agencies.

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Maximus' federal business has obtained a Maturity Level 5 appraisal for its service establishment and management processes under the CMMI Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integration program. The CMMI ML5 designation validates organizations' capacity for process modernization and is the highest rating under the appraisal program, the company said Thursday.
 

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Financial services company Wells Fargo Securities will host a conversation with David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council, during an investor call on Thursday to obtain his insights on the implications of the partial government shutdown.

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Fujifilm Medical Systems USA has secured a risk management framework-based authority-to-operate from the Defense Department to run the Synapse 5 picture archiving and communication system on the department’s networks. The company said Wednesday DoD ruled after a 14-month review that Synapse 5 PACS meets security controls stated in RMFs, which include the DoD 8500 Series […] More

Boeing‘s Insitu subsidiary and the University of Alaska Fairbanks have received permission from the Federal Aviation Administration to conduct unmanned beyond-visual-line-of-sight and nighttime test flights. The effort will help authorize autonomous drone flights in the National Airspace System, at or below an altitude of 400 feet, Insitu said Wednesday. Esina Alic, president and CEO of […] More

FireEye‘s cloud-based email security offerings have received certifications from Schellman & Company and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The enterprise cybersecurity company said Tuesday its Email Security Cloud Edition obtained International Organization for Standardization 27001:2013 certification and Service Organization Controls Type 2 recertification for security and confidentiality. The platform is designed to block potentially […] More

Xerox has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization to deliver cloud-based managed print services to federal government agencies seeking to decrease printing efforts. The company said Tuesday its cloud-based printing offering will help agencies reduce paper use and unnecessary printing, manage energy consumption on all eligible agency electronic products, boost printing security and […] More

ExecutiveBiz spoke with Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager, and a three-time consecutive Wash100 winner, about Dell EMC Federal’s multi-cloud services and what lies ahead for government information technology modernization. “We recognize cloud not as a destination, but as a delivery model. Cloud isn’t the goal, the goal is getting information into the […] More

Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said federal agencies need a long-term plan for digital transformation in order to reduce technical debt and leverage the Technology Modernization Fund through the Modernizing Government Technology Act. Harris wrote in a FedScoop article posted Thursday organizations accumulate technical debt through […] More