Kevin Durkin serves as senior vice president for the civilian sector business of NTT Data Federal, leading strategic direction, operations and financial management activities within the sector. He previously served as VP of account management for Hewlett-Packard‘s Navy Marine Corps Intranet account and worked to negotiate and execute a $5.6 billion continuity of services contract between […] More

Tim Conway serves as president of the public sector at NTT DATA, where he oversees the company’s business in the U.S. that works with agencies at the federal, state and local government levels. He served as EVP of the public sector business at Keane prior to that company’s acquisition by NTT DATA in 2011. His 23-year public sector career […] More

NTT DATA will deliver and implement an SAP data analysis and reporting platform for the transportation agency of New South Wales, Australia, under a $1.13 million contract, CRN reported Thursday. Transport for NSW chose NTT DATA to deploy the SAP Business Warehouse software for the agency’s enterprise resource planning system project, according to the report by […] More

NTT DATA is expanding its operations in Canada by establishing an Advanced Development Centre in Nova Scotia. “Nova Scotia has proven to be an ideal location for us since we opened our office under the name Keane, Inc. in 1997,” Dean Williams, NTT’s executive vice president of global human capital, said Friday. NTT DATA Canada said it will be […] More

NTT Data has been chosen to support the Vatican Apostolic Library‘s project to digitally archive an estimated 3,000 preserved specimens, including manuscripts, books, prints and paintings, under a four-year, $22.6 million agreement. The project involves digitally reproducing the library specimens as high-definition data in a sustainable storage format and applying modern processes such as metadata management and optimized search algorithms, […] More

NTT DATA has partnered with the U.S. Army as part of the Army Partnership for Youth Success program, where private U.S. companies work to train and hire qualified young Army veterans for future careers in the civilian workforce. “The PaYS Program is an integral part of our recruiting strategy as it introduces highly motivated and exceptional candidates to […] More

The venture capital arms of Lockheed Martin and NTT Docomo have invested in TileDB, a company that developed a system for storing, analyzing and sharing large datasets on-premise or in a cloud environment. TIleDB said Wednesday it will use the funds to further develop its database platform that processes information using multidimensional arrays can work […] More

NTT Communications has launched a new data center in Osaka, Japan as an addition to its Nexcenter data center service. The Osaka 5 Data Center located in Japan’s Kansai region consists of 11 floors and has systems designed to reduce the impact of earthquake and other natural disasters, such as seismic-isolation device and seismic damper, NTT Communications said Monday. […] More

Fortinet and NTT Com Security have forged a partnership to combine their platforms in an effort to help enterprises protect their data centers and other information technology infrastructures from network threats. Both companies will work to provide consulting services for commercial firms on various areas, such as risk reduction, incident management and IT implementation, Fortinet said Monday. Fortinet […] More

The recent Elastic Public Sector Summit offered several key takeaways into how government agencies could better handle data in order to improve citizen engagement and deliver public service more efficiently, according to Chris Townsend, vice president of public sector at search analytics company Elastic. First, tools that can rapidly transform large data sets into actionable […] More

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

Grant Thornton’s public sector business and Microsoft have expanded their partnership to help federal agencies generate insights from data and comply with provisions of the administration’s Management Agenda and other regulations that seek to advance transparency and efficiency. Greg Myers, vice president of Microsoft’s federal business, said in a statement published Thursday the company will […] More