The Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Tennessee Valley Authority have entered into a memorandum of understanding to jointly advance decarbonization technologies. ORNL said that while largely focused on electricity, the partnership may also touch on other fields such as hydrogen generation. Decarbonizing the American electricity sector is a critical part of the federal government’s […]
The U.S. Army has named Maj. Gen. Anthony Potts as the new leader of its Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical team. Headquartered at Aberdeen Proving Ground, PEO C3T is responsible for driving the Army’s network modernization strategy and delivering tactical network, electronic warfare and cyber capabilities to warfighters, according to the team’s website. Potts […]
The General Services Administration is scheduled to launch a modern version of IT Dashboard, a website containing information on federal information technology portfolios and business case reports. Initially launched in 2009, IT Dashboard is designed to provide the private sector and general public transparency in the federal government’s IT investments. A GSA spokesperson said that […]
Organizations in both the private and public sectors are taking customer experience more seriously. According to Gartner, the number of companies that have a chief customer officer or an equivalent role rose from about 65 percent in 2017 to nearly 90 percent in 2019. The public sector has also long strived to deliver better citizen […]
The Space Development Agency has awarded $1.8 billion in prototype agreements for the buildout of the National Defense Space Architecture, a sensing and data transport capability intended to deliver space-based solutions to warfighters. SDA awarded $382 million to York Space Systems, $700 million to Lockheed Martin and $692 million to Northrop Grumman for each to […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Leidos a potential $11.5 billion single-award contract for digital modernization services. Under the terms of the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Defense Enclave Services contract, Leidos will unify Department of Defense agencies and field activities under a common network architecture. The system will support mission services focused on user experience, security and […]
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Paragon Robotics a multimillion-dollar contract to provide tools for monitoring the ambient storage conditions of medical supplies in the Strategic National Stockpile. Paragon said it will help secure critical supplies in the CHEMPACK program, an initiative to maintain deployable containers of nerve agent antidotes. About 1,400 […]
Lookout, a cloud security company, announced that its secure access service edge solution has been authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Specifically, the company’s Lookout Security Platform attained the FedRAMP Joint Advisory Board Provisional Authority to Operate. FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides a standardized approach to evaluating the security of […]
Unqork, a software development company, has entered into an agreement to provide its no-code platform to the Department of Health and Human Services. The platform will help the department’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health streamline its development of software for improving business processes, Unqork said Wednesday. OASH oversees the department’s major health offices […]
The Army is conducting several pilots of application programming interfaces in an effort to improve the service’s business processes, an official said. APIs are tools designed to simplify software development and allow otherwise incompatible applications to communicate with each other, according to IBM. Army Chief Data Officer David Markowitz said that the goal, for now, […]
