Google Public Sector has taken the next step in its efforts to serve the U.S. government with the creation of a board of directors. Board members will offer feedback to Google Public Sector to ensure that the company’s products and services align with current and future customer needs and help characterize the company’s presence in the […] More

Google‘s cloud business created a pair of artificial intelligence technology suites in a bid to provide life sciences and public sector organizations with secure online tools to shorten time-to-market of drug development. The Target and Lead Identification Suite uses AI to predict antibody structures and identify the function of amino acid mutagenesis, Google said Tuesday. […] More

The Department of Defense has awarded the first batch of task orders to Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. In December, the four companies won positions on the potential $8 billion JWCC contract, which will enable DOD to directly procure enterprisewide cloud service […] More

Aaron Weis, former Navy chief information officer, was named managing director of technology at Google‘s public sector arm, ExecutiveBiz has learned. The move took effect Monday and Weis is now tasked to oversee GPS technology strategy development and execution for Google Cloud Platform. Reporting to Vice President Leigh Palmer, the new managing director will also […] More

ManTech will migrate its workforce to Google Workspace, becoming the first government contractor to make the cloud platform transition, said David Hathaway, executive vice president and general manager of defense at the company. The Department of the Army and other ManTech clients have adopted the platform, and moving company employees to the Google offering is […] More

Cloud migration and cybersecurity are interconnected issues and currently front of mind for the U.S. Department of Defense. In November 2022, the Pentagon released its Zero Trust Strategy, an implementation plan that lays out the methodologies and approaches the department will mount to reach a full-scale version of the cybersecurity mandate President Biden issued in May 2021. […] More

As the Department of Defense moves forward with its enterprise-wide cloud effort, key trends are steering the future of cloud innovation. Executive Mosaic spoke with Oracle Senior Vice President Glen Dodson to find out more. In an exclusive video interview, Dodson shared four market-leading cloud trends: multi-cloud, OCONUS — or outside of the contiguous United States — […] More

Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft’s federal arm and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said he sees as a primary challenge the emergence of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation and how the federal government can take advantage of such technologies, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. He told the publication in an […] More

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has tapped Google‘s public sector business arm for a multi-phase collaborative agreement to digitalize visitor experience at the library. The organizations have agreed to co-create interactive experiences using artificial intelligence as well as extended and augmented reality technologies available on Google Cloud, the tech firm said Monday. The […] More

Cloud storage and technology has come into focus as the technology of the future for the Department of Defense. Late last year, the department made two huge steps in signaling its commitment to cloud. First, in November 2022, it released its strategy for the next few years of cyber protections. This plan for implementing a zero […] More

Google and the Department of Labor have partnered to offer training for military personnel transitioning to civilian life under DOL’s Employment Navigator and Partnership Pilot. Lisa Gevelber, founder of the Grow with Google program, wrote in a blog post that service members at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California, U.S. Army’s Fort Drum in […] More

Microsoft‘s new cloud environment is now generally available to host classified data for the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and federal civilian agencies. Office 365 Government Secret provides a set of cloud-based productivity, compliance, collaboration and security tools that can handle military and government data at Impact Level 6, Paul Lorimer, corporate vice president […] More