Deloitte and Google Cloud have expanded the companies' partnership to introduce additional products and services intended to help government customers address digital transformation goals, Deloitte announced Monday.

A National Science Foundation-managed observatory has chosen Google to provide an interim cloud environment that will host astronomical data ahead of the telescope’s scheduled commencement of operations in 2023.

Google Cloud has entered into a five-year agreement with the Department of Energy (DOE) to provide access to a variety of Google Cloud technologies to help the department scale research efforts and drive innovation across DOE national labs and field sites, the company announced Thursday. "Our work with Google Cloud is helping us reduce the friction and pivot to innovation," said  Rocky Campione.

Dan Wilbricht, vice president of Ivanti's public sector business in the Americas, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the internal advancements of automation, cloud and managed services. He also discussed external technology initiatives, including Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and Certified Information Systems Auditor’s (CISA) Trusted Internet Connection (TIC) policy 3.0, and the potential future of the technology sector.

Darryl Peek II, formerly a senior manager within Salesforce's global public sector unit, has joined Google as head of federal strategic partnerships. Peek said Monday in a LinkedIn post that he aims to create value, use thought leadership and provide support for government transformation efforts in his new capacity.

The General Services Administration has authorized Jellyfish to offer a suite of technologies and services intended to help federal agencies implement digital marketing efforts. Jellyfish said Thursday it will provide government customers access to a range of cloud-based marketing platforms from Google and Salesforce.

Carahsoft Technology has agreed to distribute Mapbox’s cloud-based mapping technology to public sector customers as the latter’s master government aggregator.

Several U.S. government, commercial and academic organizations have vowed to provide high-performance computing resources to support COVID-19 research and development efforts worldwide through a newly formed public-private consortium.

The U.S. Postal Service has partnered with Google Cloud in an effort to decrease customer wait times in call centers, FedScoop reported Thursday. The company offers Diologflow Enterprise Edition, a tool suite designed to provide artificial intelligence virtual agents that could help agency customers access services via websites, texts and calls.

Google’s cloud platform has achieved high-status authority to operate for 17 products under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program.

DLT Solutions and A Cloud Guru have teamed up to offer cloud training services to government clients.

Shamlan Siddiqi, chief technology officer of NTT DATA’s public sector division, recently spoke with ExecutiveBiz regarding the impact artificial intelligence is having on the U.S. government, the reason why there’s so much red tape in AI innovation, why attracting talent is such a challenge in today’s climate and how the government can implement emerging technology more effectively.