Amazonâs (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing business looks to increase the number of its data center campuses in Virginia as part of a $35 billion investment that will run through 2040. According to a post on Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s website Friday, Amazon Web Services‘ planned footprint expansion is in support of its long-term growth in the...
As the Department of Defense shifts its focus away from counterterrorism and toward the peer and near-peer competition, modernization and rapid technological innovation have become crucial to national security missions. Executive Mosaic spoke with DOD Chief Information Officer John Sherman in a new video interview to learn more about his thoughts ...
Amazon Web Services will provide the Department of the Navy access to a cloud computing environment under a blanket purchase agreement worth potentially $723.9 million over five years. DON personnel will also receive training, certification and professional services from the cloud provider through the Enterprise Software License BPA, the Department ...
Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP, a fully managed data and storage service, has achieved FedRAMP and Department of Defense certification and is approved for public sector use. The service, offered by a NetApp-Amazon Web Services partnership, now has FedRAMP Moderate and High authorizations in select regions and meets impact levels two, four and five of...
The Department of Defense has awarded Amazonâs (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing business, Google, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) positions on the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract worth potentially $9 billion over five and a half years. DOD said Wednesday JWCC is a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity c...
A team led by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) has secured an other transaction agreement with the U.S. Army to support cyber training of up to 17,000 remote-based civilian personnel at the military branch. Amazon Web Services, Aries Security and Ultimate Knowledge Institute are part of the team that will help train Army employees bas...
David Rubal, formerly a senior technical business development manager within the worldwide public sector business of Amazon Web Services, has received a promotion to lead U.S. federal business development for AWS storage services. In a LinkedIn post published Saturday, Rubal wrote that he will lead a team of BD managers and subject matter experts re...
Amazonâs (Nasdaq: AMZN) cloud computing business and Project Kuiper, Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and SpiderOak Mission Systems have received contracts for the second phase of a Defense Innovation Unit project that seeks to demonstrate a hybrid architecture that would connect ground communications systems to satellite networks. The Hybrid Space Archit...
Lily Zeleke, acting deputy chief information officer at the Department of Defense, said DOD is on schedule to award the potential $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract by the end of 2022, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. âDecember 2022 is still the date weâre aiming for, for awards,â Zeleke said at an event Wedneday. âI can...
Jennifer Hayes, sales director at MongoDB, said government agencies looking to update legacy applications in a secure and fully managed environment in support of their missions should consider adopting database-as-a-service platforms. Hayes discussed how cloud database services like Atlas for Government could help federal, local and state government...
