State and Federal Communications

Emerging Technology,Government Business,Cybersecurity

Carahsoft | January 05, 2023

Carahsoft Technology Corp., the government's trusted IT solutions provider, is now an AWS Federal Distributor for Dell Technologies Data Protection solutions in the AWS Marketplace, an organized digital catalog that customers can use to buy, find, manage, and deploy third-party data, software, and services to build solutions and run businesses on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Customers in the U.S. public sector have easy access, flexible pricing terms, streamlined billing, rapid ...

JOHNSON & JOHNSON | March 31, 2020

The Trump administration has made another move in the race to combat and stop the viral outbreak of COVID-19, also known as the coronavirus, around the globe. The Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR) recently signed a deal for a $456 million order with Johnson & Johnson’s Pharmaceuticals arm Janssen. The order has been specified as a “new vaccine asset for 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19).” It is the largest amoun...

Government Business

Deloitte | July 27, 2021

Deloitte said today that it has acquired almost all of the assets of Sentek Consulting, Inc., a San Diego-based systems engineering and cybersecurity company that mainly serves the United States Navy. "The acquisition of Sentek Global's business will strengthen Deloitte's existing presence in San Diego while also expanding our current mission-focused systems engineering capabilities and cyber offerings to other military branches and federal agencies," said Mike C...

Nextgov | June 29, 2020

A bicameral group of Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation to ban the use of facial recognition technologies by all federal agencies without explicit authorization from Congress. On Thursday, Sens. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., and Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., and Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., introduced the Facial Recognition and Biometric Technology Moratorium Act of 2020. The bill’s long title offers a fuller picture of the lawmakers’ intent: To prohibit b...