Andrew Borene, a certified information systems security professional and former IBM (NYSE: IBM) executive, has been appointed senior director of the federal national security group at Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC). He will lead a team that offers integrated technology platforms and services meant to help government clients defend against cyber threats, Sy...
Maria-Paz Barrientos, formerly a vice president and partner at IBM (NYSE: IBM), has been appointed managing director of federal health at Deloitte, G2Xchange Health reported Tuesday. She assumed her new role after a 17-year career at IBM and with more than two decades of experience in enterprise-wide transformation efforts and client relations. Barr...
Five companies have won contracts worth up to $350.6M combined to provide training and supplemental materials for Department of the Navy acquisition professionals. Contractors will work to help the department energize its acquisition personnel, foster teamwork, understand career path productivity and inform workforce-related decision making, accordi...
Phong Huynh and Raj Yanambakkam of Deloitte have said platform as a service could help government agencies attract and retain employees and advance innovation when it comes to customer engagement. Huynh and Yanambakkam wrote that PaaS works to accelerate transformation by allowing agency employees to focus on citizens and relieving them from repetit...
Deloitte US has appointed Joseph Ucuzoglu as CEO and Janet Foutty as board chair in a couple of leadership changes slated to take effect on June 2. Ucuzoglu, currently the chairman and CEO at Deloitte & Touche LLP, has managed all transformation efforts for the audit and assurance practice over the past four years, the...
Juan Garcia, a 26-year U.S. Navy veteran and former leader for global associate development at Amazon, has been named a managing director for the defense, security and justice sector at Deloitte Consulting™s government and public services practice. He will work with federal agencies to help them address workforce transformation goals, Delo...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, February 4, 2019 ” Deloitte has developed a cloud-based workflow management system for government agencies that is designed to help process public information requests under the Freedom of Information Act while ensuring data privacy, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said Wednesday the technology is built on Re...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has awarded 58 companies and institutions spots on a potential 10-year, $25B contract vehicle to support data-driven health care quality improvement efforts across various settings and programs. CMS said in a FedBizOpps notice published Monday each contractor has a minimum guaranteed award amount of $1K...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 18, 2018 ” A Deloitte report has urged agencies to explore artificial intelligence, particularly the aspect of natural language processing, in order to gain insights from unstructured government data to support policy analysis and decision-making, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. Deloitte said in an article published W...
Fourteen companies will compete for task orders to provide business and professional support services to the National Institutes of Health and other Department of Health and Human Services component agencies through a potential $45M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. NIH listed the name of awardees for its NIH...
