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

SparkCognition will leverage an Hewlett Packard Enterprise-made rugged, converged system in an aim to boost the performance of the former’s industrial artificial intelligence platform, under a partnership between the two firms. SparkCognition said Wednesday its SparkPredict platform will perform at full potential when operating with HPE’s Edgeline Converged Edge System. SparkPredict uses category-leading and machine learning […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise will allow astronauts and researchers aboard the International Space Station to directly perform in-space analyses through its supercomputer. HPE said Thursday it will offer commercial high-performance computing services to experimenters on ISS following the completion of a one-year mission that sought to evaluate the Spaceborne Computer’s capacity to withstand zero gravity, radiation […] More

Willard Williams, a 26-year federal information technology market veteran, has joined 9th Way Solutions as chief operating officer of the Fairfax, Va.-based company. The company said Friday Williams will oversee operations in the enterprise and health IT services, systems and program management, and cyber and information security areas. He previously led enterprise IT projects for AECOM, ManTech, […] More

General Electric‘s aviation business has opened a collaboration space in Washington, D.C., to help federal civilian and defense customers transform operations with digital products and services. GE Aviation established the Accelerator for data scientists, software developers and domain experts to work with government clients to condense multiple data points generated by the defense sector each year […] More

Dell EMC and Hewlett Packard Enterprise are helping the U.S. Air Force‘s Space and Missile Systems Center develop information technology infrastructure platforms built on supply chain risk management. The two firms will provide the center with SCRM systems that employ commercial, government and open source technologies, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base said Monday. The center would […] More

Eric Clark, former president of the application services division at NTT Data Services, has been named chief digital officer of the Plano, Texas-based technology services provider. The company said Wednesday Clark will aim to address clients’ systems design requirements through the use of digital, cloud and security technologies. Bob Pryor, CEO of NTT Data Services, said the […] More

A coalition of multinational technology firms has volunteered to make public their company policies governing the disclosure and sharing of known software vulnerabilities. Signatories to the Cybersecurity Tech Accord announced Monday they were publishing their Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure policies, a concept endorsed by the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise, an international platform for governments, companies and other […] More

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has begun development work on a high-performance computing system designed to help the National Renewable Energy Laboratory speed up research and development of energy technology platforms across data sciences, vehicle and wind power areas. The Eagle supercomputer is built to process HPC workloads at a speed of up to 8 petaflops through […] More

A new group of elections systems providers and an information technology-centric cybersecurity data sharing organization have agreed to partner to safeguard voting platforms from possible election interference, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The Elections Industry Special Industry Group will provide election technology firms access to the IT Information Sharing and Analysis Center’s data sharing infrastructure […] More

A coalition of technology companies has begun efforts to counter the Defense Department’s plan to pursue a single-award contract for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement program, Bloomberg reported Tuesday. Sources told the publication the coalition includes Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, Red Hat, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell Technologies, SAP’s U.S. arm and General Dynamics’ CSRA unit. […] More

The Energy Department has selected Hewlett Packard Enterprise to provide a supercomputer for DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration to process simulation and modeling workloads intended for science, energy and national security applications. HPE will deploy the Astra supercomputer at Sandia Labs Laboratories as part of the Vanguard program, the company said Monday. Astra is based on the Arm […] More