Andre Mendes strives to drive consensus within his organization. His focus is creating or adopting abstraction layers that remove commodity burdens from the department’s IT portfolio. “Like…
Global CTO & President of U.S. Government, Palantir As president of U.S. government business for Palantir, Akash “Aki” Jain leads by focusing on the experiences of those…
A veteran of the private sector, Aaron Weis joined government as a senior adviser to the Department of Defense CIO and then took over the Navy’s sprawling…
Global CIO and SVP for Supply Chain, GDIT “Listen, encourage, and be respectful to everyone.” Those are the top qualities of a good leader, said James Hannah,…
The Department of the Treasury is developing an enterprise capability that provides a full suite of cloud products, services and support from multiple providers. Called TCloud, the…
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707th Communications Squadron client system technicians update software for computers that will be used on Air Force networks at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Alexandre Montes)
While the larger Department of Defense works to acquire an end-to-end, enterprise cloud, the Air Force seems to be doing just fine on its own. The service…
Jul 12, 2021
The Defense Information Systems Agency building complex at Fort Meade, Md., Jan. 2, 2013. (DoD photo by Thomas L. Burton/Released)
While the Department of Defense’s larger cloud acquisitions like DEOS and JEDI — and now its replacement, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability — tend to get the…
At the Pentagon, JEDI is out and JWCC is in — the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability, that is. While the Department of Defense’s new enterprise cloud acquisition…
Jul 12, 2021
Senior Airman Zach Wilt, 49th Communications Squadron cyber operator, installs Microsoft Windows 10 to a laptop at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M., Nov. 1, 2017. (U.S. Air Force by Airman 1st Class Alexis P. Docherty)
While the Department of Defense’s other single-source cloud contract worth billions, JEDI, didn’t live to see the light of day, the department’s Defense Enterprise Office Solution survived…
Jul 12, 2021
How DHS has tried to improve election security matters
The Department of Homeland Security is in the midst of a $3.4 billion cloud computing overhaul, called the Data Center and Cloud Optimization Support Services contract. Under…