President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2023 budget proposal includes an additional $300 million in funding for the Technology Modernization Fund. TMF is a government-wide program authorized in 2017 to finance information technology modernization projects proposed by government agencies. In budget documents, the administration said that continued investment in IT will help ensure that the government can […]
Coastal Cloud, a provider of consulting, implementation and managed services, has developed new Salesforce-based solutions that are designed to support project implementation activities. Tommie Fern, senior vice president of public sector sales, state and local government at software company Salesforce, said Coastal Cloud’s offerings will support public sector clients by delivering agile, fast and scalable […]
Plus3 IT Systems, a small disadvantaged business, announced that it was selected to support the Department of Defense’s $241 million artificial intelligence data readiness effort. The DOD’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center awarded a basic ordering agreement under its Data Readiness for AI Development program, Plus3 IT said. On its website, JAIC said that having “AI-ready” […]
Virginia-headquartered General Dynamics Information Technology announced that it has been awarded a $95 million enterprise IT Services contract by AmeriCorps. The deal calls for the modernization and operation of the agency’s information technology enterprise by providing managed services, cloud, digital modernization, and cybersecurity services, GDIT said Thursday. In a statement, the company said that the […]
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency has adopted C3 AI’s artificial intelligence application development platform, the company announced. According to its web page, the C3 AI Application Platform is designed to help developers build applications using conceptual models instead of writing code. The platform will help DCSA build the tools it needs to accelerate the […]
Sera-Brynn, a cybersecurity risk management company, announced that it has renewed its accreditation as a third-party assessment organization under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP is a government-wide program designed to grade the security of cloud-based products and services offered to federal agencies. Sera-Brynn said that the re-accreditation followed a stringent evaluation by […]
Lawmakers have introduced a bill seeking to require agencies to modernize outdated information technology systems. Within a year of the Legacy IT Reduction Act of 2022‘s enactment, the chief information officers of each agency must create a list of the legacy IT systems that the organization uses, operates or maintains. The White House’s Office of […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted authorization for DLH Holdings’ Infinibyte Cloud solution, signifying that the offering has undergone a security capabilities assessment. The authorization also means that Infinibyte meets the enhanced data security requirements set by the Department of Defense and other government agencies. Infinibyte Cloud is a platform-as-a-service offering that […]
The organization managing the Technology Modernization Fund will only award loans for information technology projects with the “greatest chance of success,” a federal official said. TMF is a government-wide program authorized in 2017 that finances modernization projects proposed by government agencies. Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana, chair of the TMF Board, said that agencies […]
The Department of Defense considers cloud migration a requirement for software modernization, a top technology official said. In early February, the Pentagon published a software modernization strategy that establishes its enterprise software goals and supersedes its 2018 cloud strategy. Danielle Metz, the DOD’s deputy chief information officer for information enterprise, said the department opted not […]
