Paul Smith, a Red Hat veteran and a three-time Wash100 awardee, has been appointed as acting CEO of Rancher Government Solutions. He takes over the responsibilities of Lynne Chamberlain, who decided to retire after three years at the helm of RGS, the company said Thursday. Smith spent 17 years at Red Hat, where he served […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has cleared and issued the Security Technical Implementation Guide for Rancher Government Solutions’ RKE2 offering. RKE2, also known as RKE Government, is RGS’ next-generation Kubernetes distribution platform designed to adhere to security requirements of federal government agencies by regularly scanning components for common vulnerabilities and exposures, among other functions. DISA […] More

Rancher Government Solutions has entered into a strategic alliance and reseller agreement with the defense solutions division of Curtiss-Wright with the aim of bringing Kubernetes and container management technologies to the tactical edge. The two companies said Wednesday that under the partnership, the Harvester hyper-converged infrastructure and the Rancher Multi Cluster Manager will be hosted on PacStar 400-Series tactical communications products.

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Executive Mosaic is pleased to announce that Paul Smith has once again been named a winner of the Wash100 Award. Smith's win this year, his fourth overall, is in recognition of his achievements as the new CEO of Rancher Government Solutions, leading the Kubernetes management software provider to a key new hire, the formation of industry partnerships and the rollout of Rancher Government Hauler.

The Popular Vote Competition of the 2024 Wash100 Award runs through April 30, 2024. Click here to vote for Paul Smith as one of your favorite GovCon industry leaders!

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Rancher Government Solutions has unveiled a new platform designed to help U.S. government and military agencies accelerate and streamline the secure transfer of applications, artifacts and other assets across the airgap to classified environments. Rancher Government Hauler works to improve the airgapping process by treating container images, files and other assets as content and collections, enabling operators to easily store, fetch, package and distribute the assets through the command line or with declarative configuration files, RGS said Tuesday.

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Kratos Defense and Security Solutions and Rancher Government Solutions will help customers field and scale virtual ground systems using the software-based OpenSpace Platform from Kratos under a strategic partnership.

Gulla will serve as one of the speakers at the Potomac Officers Club’s Workloads at the Tactical Edge Forum on Feb. 8. Register here to hear the RGS CTO’s insights as he joins a panel discussion on hyperconverged infrastructure.

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Executive Mosaic, the premier media and events organization in the government contracting sector, is honored to announce the 2024 edition of the highly anticipated Wash100 Award. Now in its historic 11th year, the Wash100 Award recognizes the top 100 industry executives and government leaders in the GovCon community for their outstanding leadership, positive impact and […] More

Dr. Mark Linderman has laid out deep foundations for transformative discoveries, development, and integration of the warfighting capabilities of the Air Force. Equipped with diverse competencies in science, technology, research, and development, he serves as the Chief Scientist of the Information Directorate at the Air Force Research Laboratory–Rome, New York.   As a highly skilled […] More

Booz Allen Hamilton will help the U.S. Air Force commercialize products and services made by Platform One, USAF’s combined software development effort that observes DevSecOps practices, to help both public and private sectors accelerate software development. The company said Thursday it will commercialize Platform One’s Big Bang development product and Iron Bank container repository services […] More