Pure Storage’s John Karagozian explains how innovations in flash technologies are making it easier for federal agencies to transition to next generation tools for managing data storage.

Pure Storage’s John Karagozian explains how innovations in flash technologies are making it easier for federal agencies to transition to next generation tools for managing data storage.

The pilot could have significant impacts on IT procurement beyond the defense sector as federal agencies seek to curb the number of protest awards.

Executives from eight of the 11 winning firms put their competitive differences aside to pen a letter to DHS Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa.

"We had an agile process for doing the solicitation and the evaluation, but we fell back to a waterfall documentation process, which caused us some problems," DHS Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa said.