TYSONS CORNER, VA, January 22, 2021 — Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos (NYSE: LDOS), said the company would incorporate managed services and cloud computing approaches acquired through its purchase of 1901 Group to support customers' digital modernization goals, ExecutiveBiz reported Jan. 15.

1901 Group has joined the Zscaler ecosystem as a Public Sector channel partner, 1901 Group reported on Thursday. 1901 Group will leverage the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud platform to help federal agencies adapt to telework with secure access to mission critical applications and data. “Working in FISMA and/or FedRAMP environments takes specialized skill-sets and experience," said Peter Amirkhan, SVP of Public Sector at Zscaler.

1901 Group has committed to support the Red Hat ecosystem as a Gold and Cloud Services partner, Under the partnership, 1901 Group will integrate Red Hat OpenShift as the central component of a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline to automate the migration of mission-critical legacy applications to the cloud, 1901 Group said Thursday.

Ali Kidwai, a 10-year business analysis, capture and growth veteran, has joined 1901 Group as senior director of business development, G2Xchange FedCiv reported Thursday.

Amazon Web Services has certified 1901 Group as a partner under the former’s Managed Service Provider Partner program.

1901 Group has secured a subcontract of an undisclosed value from Science Applications International Corp. to migrate the U.S. Army’s information technology infrastructure and enterprise applications to the cloud.

1901 Group has landed a potential five-and-a-half-year, $6.1M task order from the Federal Trade Commission through the Information Technology Support Service blank purchase agreement to help update the agency’s business applications through the implementation of a low-code, cloud-based offering.

1901 Group announced on Tuesday that George Batsakis has joined the company as its executive vice president and chief strategy officer. 

Information technology firm 1901 Group will assist the Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center in the developing and implementation of artificial technology-based approaches to collect, analyze and disseminate data. The company said Thursday it could receive $3.2M in funds to support a DoD AI adoption project as part of a 10-month, $10M partnership agreement with the National Technical Information Service.

Amazon Web Services has granted 1901 Group a Government Competency designation that validates the latter’s capacity to provide cost-effective software solutions for government clients to improve efficiency and output.

Information technology services provider 1901 Group received a contract under the General Services Administration’s IT Schedule 70 vehicle to help the Peace Corps transition data center operations to a hybrid computing environment.

Reston, Va.-based information technology services provider 1901 Group has completed a training, assessment and enablement program meant to help Amazon Web Services partners gain skills and experience necessary to support public sector customers in cloud migration efforts.