The Northern Virginia Technology Council will auction off regional and industry c-level executives in a fundraising event scheduled on Feb. 4. Attendees will bid electronically for a chance with c-level executives within 12 months and gain insights, forge business connections and learn about future plans of various companies, the NVTC said. The NVTC CXO Auction event […] More

Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Dave Levy, vice president of federal government at Amazon Web Services, 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. This is his second consecutive Wash100 award.

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Andy Jassy and Pat Gelsinger, respectively CEOs of Amazon Web Services  and VMware, announced at a recent industry event that both companies will debut a hybrid cloud service intended for government customers in the AWS GovCloud region by the end of 2019. Both executives spoke about the planned release of VMware Cloud on AWS and other joint offerings at the […] More

Amazon Web Services has concluded an independent evaluation that would allow Australian government agencies to perform self-accreditation to host data at the protected level on the AWS cloud platform within the Sydney region, CRN reported Thursday. The completion of the Information Security Registered Assessors Program assessment comes as AWS continues to work with the Australian […] More

The U.S. Transportation Command has announced its intent to award a contract to Amazon Web Services to provide commercial cloud services designed to host data classified at the “secret” level. Transcom said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday the proposed contract will cover storage, virtual machines, internet protocol management and network bandwidth services. The company […] More

Amazon Web Services has received authorization from the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide the AWS GovCloud platform for highly sensitive government workloads. The company said Friday VA issued a Federal Information Security Management Act High General Support System authority to operate as well as a FISMA Moderate GSS ATO for AWS GovCloud. The FISMA High ATO permits VA to continue using GovCloud […] More

Engility will present its high-performance computing platforms at the six-day Supercomputing 2016 conference that will kick off Nov. 13 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Kirk Dye, senior vice president of Engility’s federal civilian business, said in a statement released Tuesday that the company works to help clients address big data challenges through HPC platforms as well […] More