David Levy of AWS Wins 6th Wash100 Award for Championing Federal Digital Modernization
David Levy, vice president for the worldwide public sector at Amazon Web Services, has earned the 2025 Wash100 Award from Executive Mosaic for his efforts in promoting advanced technology use in the public sector.
After winning four straight Wash100 Awards from 2018 to 2021, Levy returned to this prestigious list in 2024 and again this year. Help Levy make it to this year’s top ten favorite government and industry executives by voting for him at Wash100.com. The deadline to vote is April 30!
Founded by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson, the Wash100 Award honors the best of the best in the government contracting industry. Winners are recognized for their recent contributions and potential achievements and impact.
Commenting on Levy’s latest win, Garrettson said, “Dave continues to be a driving force in advancing cloud and AI adoption across the public sector. Under his leadership, AWS has recently secured major contracts like a $158M award with the Army and a $115M deal for impact level 6 cloud services, reinforcing the company’s role in powering mission-critical government operations. His push to accelerate generative AI adoption—including AWS’ $50M Impact Initiative and partnerships with industry leaders like Booz Allen and GDIT—demonstrates his commitment to helping agencies innovate at scale. With six Wash100 wins now under his belt, Dave’s influence in shaping the future of cloud and AI in government is undeniable.”
Leading the Charge in Technological Innovations
Levy and AWS have been at the forefront of technological advancements in the federal sector. For the past year, he advocated for digital transformation across federal agencies. This includes the use of the company’s Digital Public Infrastructure, or DPI, which enables efficient and secure interactions. With the DPI, government agencies can deploy new digital services rapidly and provide more efficient public service while businesses can streamline their operations.
The AWS executive promoted the adoption of generative artificial intelligence since it is considered “an important piece of technology” according to a survey conducted by AWS last year. Based on the survey, GenAI is essential to enhancing information analysis and automation. It was also determined that organizations willing to adopt GenAI require a trusted partner for this process, which Levy also emphasized. “The survey shows what AWS already knows to be true: 85% of public sector respondents need a trusted partner in generative AI by their side,” he said.
Levy is pushing for generative AI adoption through various initiatives, including the AWS Public Sector Generative AI Impact Initiative. This two-year initiative with $50 million in funding aims to accelerate generative AI adoption by providing AWS Promotional Credits, training and technical expertise to participants. They will also be provided access to the Generative AI Innovation Center, training, technical support, networking opportunities and global thought leadership opportunities. AWS intends to help organizations interested in leveraging generative AI overcome challenges such as resource optimization, changing needs and security issues.
AWS pledged hundreds of millions in 2020 to provide free cloud computing training around the world by 2025. Last year, they already helped over 31 million people from 200 nations through their portfolio of free cloud computing offerings, including AWS re/Start’s workforce development training programs for unemployed and underemployed people and AWS Skills Centers’ in-person learning centers. Digital, self-paced trainings and learning plans were also made available through the AWS Skill Builder and AWS Educate learning centers.
In addition, AWS and Booz Allen Hamilton recently expanded their strategic partnership to drive innovation and scale advanced technologies across intelligence, defense, civil and commercial missions. The goal is to boost digital modernization for federal agencies and enhance their capabilities involving generative AI, cybersecurity and cloud migration. Booz Allen will offer its digital offerings at scale through the AWS Marketplace, enabling agencies access to advanced capabilities such as AI-enhanced defense capabilities against cyberattacks, deployment of cloud services to remote locations, IT infrastructure migration and scientific discovery with high-performance computing.
AWS is one of four foundational companies that provided $40 million to fund the establishment of the Cancer AI Alliance. The CAIA aims to leverage AI to generate insights in cancer biology and treatment resistance, determine new therapeutic targets and analyze cancer care data.
“Together, we will accelerate innovation in cancer discovery and treatments, deploy generative artificial intelligence at scale, and leverage the power, agility and security of cloud computing to revolutionize health and patient outcomes,” said Levy.
David Levy’s Career Highlights
Levy has spent the last seven years of his distinguished career at AWS. Before serving as the VP for worldwide public sector, he was VP of U.S. government, nonprofit and healthcare. The 20-year industry veteran previously worked at Apple as head of U.S. government sales. He was instrumental in the government’s adoption of various mobile technologies, including the Air Force’s first electronic flight bag initiatives on the iPad. Levy also worked for Monster.com, where he oversaw the growth of its automation and innovation portfolio to federal hiring and recruiting platforms.
Levy has so far earned an astonishing six Wash100 Awards. His 2025 win focuses on his contributions to digital modernization within federal agencies.
Executive Mosaic extends its congratulations to David Levy and his team at Amazon Web Services for another Wash100 Award.
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