The Air Force has awarded coaching company BetterUp a sole-source contract to enroll more than 1,500 personnel in its professional coaching program. BetterUp said that it offers individual coaching and group coaching as part of a program approved by the International Coaching Federation. The services will be available to airmen and guardians across multiple U.S. […]
The Bureau of Consular Affairs within the Department of State is looking to launch its online passport renewal system in the fall of 2022. According to a department official, pilot testing of the new system with government employees and contractors is underway to smooth out functionality and operational errors, Federal News Network reported. Inspector general […]
Science Applications International Corp. has launched Rugged Apps, a solution that gives government customers secure versions of commercial mobile applications and software scanning services for apps. Rugged Apps adds extra layers of protection to software offerings to ensure that they comply with the National Information Assurance Partnership and that they will be protected against evolving […]
The Senate Homeland Security Committee has approved legislation seeking to codify the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, a government-wide regime for assessing the security of cloud-based products and services. The Federal Secure Cloud Improvement and Jobs Act would direct the General Services Administration to automate FedRAMP assessments within a year, in addition to the […]
The General Services Administration on Tuesday released new details and cleared common misconceptions about an upcoming multiple-award blanket purchase agreement being launched to speed up enterprisewide modernization initiatives and meet increased demand for secure commercial cloud products and services, FCW reported Thursday. In a notice to stakeholders, the GSA said that a previously published timeline […]
The Air Force has given ECS permission to sell Platform One products and services for clients across the federal, commercial and academic sectors. Platform One supports Department of Defense programs by providing baked-in security to mission-critical software. It merges top talent from across the Air Force using various factories like Kessel Run. P1 resellers will […]
Zenoss, a company specializing in information technology monitoring, has been awarded an expanded contract to support a military intelligence tool used by multiple military branches. The company will support the Distributed Common Ground System program under the terms of the deal awarded by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The new contract expands a previous multi-site, […]
The National Cancer Institute’s chief information officer attributes the agency’s lack of an overarching system architecture to the limited experience of its IT personnel. Jeff Shilling said that the NCI’s current IT specialists are not up to the challenge of establishing a synchronized plan for modernizing infrastructure and integrating systems with the broader National Institutes […]
The Department of Justice is adopting the NetDocuments cloud platform to aid document management efforts at the United States Attorney’s Office, which comprises 94 federal districts encompassing 50 U.S. states and four territories. The initial rollout of document and email management solutions offered by NetDocuments is expected to support 5,000 agency users. A total of […]
The Government Accountability Office said in a new report that the operational expenses of the Technology Modernization Fund outweigh the fee collected from agencies to offset the costs. The TMF, managed by the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration, drives the modernization of out-of-date federal information technology systems by providing funding […]
