IT Visionaries What IT Leaders Can Learn from How the Government Buys Tech
Jun 26, 2025
In this discussion, Bryana Tucci, the Lead of the AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community, shares her expertise on modernizing government tech procurement. She reveals how traditional systems can take up to two years to adapt, but innovative solutions are emerging. Bryana highlights the challenges posed by air-gapped environments and the transformative role of generative AI in national security. She explains what tech companies need to succeed in this space and how AWS is streamlining processes to make advanced tools more accessible for government agencies.
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Procurement Inspiration from Colombia
- Bryana Tucci shares her experience working in Colombia combating coca fields with outdated tech like transistor radios.
- This showed her the stark gap in technology used for national security and inspired her drive to modernize government procurement.
AWS Marketplace Streamlines Procurement
- AWS Marketplace streamlines government procurement by leveraging existing cloud contracts and reducing procurement time by 60%.
- It offers a centralized platform for search, trial, procurement, deployment, and management of software in the cloud.
Enabling Air-Gapped Cloud Procurement
- Some government workloads run in classified, air-gapped AWS cloud regions without internet connectivity.
- AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community uses AWS Diode to securely transfer software images into these isolated environments.