Private equity firms raise money by investing in different types of assets. Such firms target startups poised for significant growth and even troubled companies, with the goal of turning their business around. Investments in the government contracting industry from 2014 to 2019 have been driven by information technology and addressing needs by cabinet-level agencies such […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection will begin a 30-day demonstration of its new Pedestrian Detection-at-Range system at five ports of entry in California and Arizona, with the goal of reducing the need for physical searches. According to a recently published privacy impact assessment document, the system takes video and photos in order to detect anomalies […]
Voxel Radar has received $387,415 in funding from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to build a passenger self-screening hardware subsystem for airport checkpoints. The development effort supports the DHS S&T’s Screening at Speed Program, which is aimed at increasing aviation security effectiveness while significantly reducing wait times and improving passenger experience. […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted MicroStrategy’s government cloud platform an “In Process” designation. FedRAMP is a government-wide program launched in 2011 that standardizes the security assessment, authorization and continuous monitoring of cloud-based products and services to ensure all federal data is secure in cloud environments. The “In Process” status means a […]
The U.S. Army is investing in simulation technologies for soldier training to regain overmatch against its adversaries. Central to the Army’s modernized training initiative is the Synthetic Training Environment, which immerses soldiers in live and virtual training scenarios with the full complexity of the physical world. Brig. Gen. William Glaser, director of the Army’s synthetic […]
Gene Farrell serves as the chief strategy and product officer for Smartsheet, an enterprise platform provider for collaborative work management. Farrell took on his current role in February. Since then, he has been on top of corporate strategy and development, product management, product marketing, experience design and strategic alliances, according to his LinkedIn profile. He […]
The U.S. Navy aims to implement an enterprise-wide approach to information technology services. Navy Chief Information Officer Aaron Weis, a past POC speaker and 2021 Wash100 winner, and Acting Assistant Secretary of Research, Development and Acquisition Frederick Stefany said in a recently published memorandum that the move will enable employees to reuse IT services depending […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has tapped RevaComm, a small business headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, to deploy a platform-as-a-service DevSecOps solution to facilitate the development, testing and delivery of secure software applications across the agency. Work will be performed under the terms of a $390 million Phase III Small Business Innovation Research indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wants to gain a better understanding of how biometric technologies are being used across the government and private sector. In a request for information posted on the Federal Register website, the OSTP acknowledged that biometric technologies, including facial recognition, voice analysis, gait recognition, voice recognition and […]
The U.S. Air Force has redesignated the 55th Communications Squadron as a cyber protection unit. Members of the new 55th Cyber Squadron will continue carrying out their legacy mission of maintaining the information technology and communications infrastructure of aircraft while also conducting cyber defensive operations, FedScoop reported Tuesday. The squadron’s commander, Lt. Col. Christopher Wong, […]
