Government Cloud

The U.S. Air Force has fielded its Contracting-Information Technology system on Appian’s cloud platform that has impact level 4 certification to host controlled unclassified data. The CON-IT system on Appian Cloud is designed to replace the service branch’s seven legacy contract writing tools in order to facilitate the acquisition process, reduce costs and speed up […] More

The U.S. Coast Guard has granted Knight Point Systems an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer the company’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform to government organizations. Reston, Va.-based Knight Point received ATO certification on May 22 for the CloudSeed  IaaS offering designed to help federal clients view, manage and secure workloads […] More

Amazon Web Services kicked off its two-day Public Sector Summit on June 20 in Washington, D.C., and Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, welcomed approximately 9,000 attendees to the event. One of the highlights of the summit is the launch of a cloud computing degree by Northern Virginia Community College in partnership with […] 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

Eric Shander, an executive vice president and chief financial officer of Red Hat, has said the company is in talks with Defense Department officials regarding the company’s back-end cloud software and service offerings, News Observer reported Tuesday. DoD reportedly intends to award a $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract that may potentially go to a major cloud service […] More

Amazon Web Services has unveiled new applications on the GovCloud platform that works to host sensitive workloads and data in compliance with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and other security regulations, GCN reported Friday. Teresa Carlson, vice president of worldwide public sector at AWS, introduced at the AWS Public Sector Summit those services […] More

VMware and Amazon Web Services have unveiled a hybrid cloud service designed to help government agencies accelerate migration of applications to the cloud and securely manage workloads through a common infrastructure. VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud (US) runs on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud bare-metal infrastructure and is equipped with VMware’s Cloud Foundation software-defined data […] More

Carahsoft Technology has received a public sector solution provider designation from Amazon Web Services and agreed to offer a hybrid cloud service from an AWS-VMware partnership to government agencies. The VMware Cloud on AWS offering is designed to help customers run information technology applications on a vSphere-based cloud environment, Carahsoft said Wednesday. Carahsoft President Craig Abod, a 2018 Wash100 […] More

Amazon Web Services has designated CACI International as a “premier” consulting partner under the AWS partner network. The designation reflects the Arlington, Va.-based contractor’s expertise to support government clients in cloud infrastructure, application migration and cloud-based DevSecOps, the company said Wednesday. CACI has helped clients secure information technology platforms at different data classification levels as the cloud company’s public sector partner and authorized […] More

Amazon Web Services has expanded its web-based center that works to help public sector entities find and procure multiple cloud service offerings. AWS said Tuesday the Public Sector Contract Center contains a database of contract vehicles through which the company’s partners offer services to federal, state, local, education and international government organizations. The platform offers information about the General Services […] More

Unisys has introduced a suite of managed services designed to help organizations speed up the migration of applications, data and other workloads to the Amazon Web Services-built public cloud platform. Unisys’ CloudForte subscription-based managed services work to provide users access to cloud-native service offerings and contract invoicing capabilities that comply with federal mandates, the company […] More

Leidos has earned the highest designation in Amazon Web Services‘ partner network for investing in cloud and technical services to support government and enterprise clients. The Premier Consulting Partner designation came two months after the Reston, Va.-based company received AWS Managed Service Provider status to help clients help design, build, migrate, operate and update cloud environments, Leidos said Wednesday. John […] More