Jim Evans, president of Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association Fort Belvoir, has been appointed to serve as senior director of Department of Defense sales at Govplace.

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Scott Spitzer, formerly lead of strategic programs and the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation initiative at Symantec, has joined ServiceNow as business development and strategic programs director for civilian agencies, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Friday.

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Bill Donellan, formerly area vice president for sales at Adobe, has been elevated to the role of vice president of public sector, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Thursday.

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Executive Mosaic, the leading executive media and events company in the government contracting “GovCon” industry, announced the 2020 winners of the highly coveted and prestigious Wash100 Award. The full list of winners and more information about the award can be found on Wash100.com. 

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Martin Van Ryswyk, a more than 30-year software engineering veteran, has been appointed senior vice president of product at satellite imaging services firm Planet.

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AFCEA International has named 14 government contracting and information technology industry executives to the association's executive committee and appointed 15 professionals to its board of directors.

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Sanjay Gupta, chief technology officer at the Small Business Administration, will deliver a keynote address at the AKIMA-hosted “Tech for Govies Day: Changing the Art of the Possible” event. AKIMA will hold hands-on demonstrations and panel discussions on information technology platforms and how they can benefit government agencies as part of the four-hour event, which will be held on April 23 at Convene in Rosslyn, Va.
 

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NTT DATA Services has received a Smart 50 Award in recognition of the company's smart city technology used for public safety in Las Vegas. The company said Thursday its smart city platform was designed to accelerate response times for public safety activities and boost the situational awareness of corresponding decision makers via early incident notifications.

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The White House’s executive order to prioritize federal investments in artificial intelligence and the Department of Defense’s AI strategy reflect major developments in federal policy to advance the adoption of AI, MeriTalk reported Wednesday.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce Al Whitmore, president of intelligence and security sector at BAE Systems’ U.S. arm, as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena — for leading BAE to major contracts in R&D, the cloud and other emerging technologies. This marks Whitmore’s second consecutive Wash100 award.

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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

Big Switch Networks has received Department of Defense certification and Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 validation for the vendor’s suite of cloud and data center networking platforms. The company said Tuesday its Cloud-First Networking portfolio is included in the DoD Information Approved Products List and designed to help government clients comply with requirements under the Modernizing Government Technology Act. […] More