The Internal Revenue Service is gearing up for the awarding of its application development and modernization contract in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023. A formal request for quotation is set for release in June 2022. The planned Enterprise Development, Operations Services contract will unify the 400-plus systems comprising the IRS’ applications development portfolio, […]
Virginia-headquartered WidePoint Corporation, a provider of technology-based products and services to the government sector, announced that its proprietary Intelligent Telecommunications Management System platform has achieved FedRAMP Ready Status. Being conferred the “Ready Status” is a strong indicator of success for full FedRAMP authorization and means that its Readiness Assessment Report has received government approval, WidePoint […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to update the in-flight rerouting software on the RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle. The software update is known as Dynamic Mission Operations. It is designed to improve the aircraft’s ability to provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data to combatant commanders. Jane Bishop, vice president […]
The U.S. Air Force has reached an agreement with six technology contractors to allow them to sell parts of the Platform One software development environment. The deal was made through a special framework that allows the government to permit contractors to sell government-developed technologies. Booz Allen Hamilton, Seed Innovations, BrainGu, Revacomm, Indrasoft and Novetta were […]
The Air Force Test Center, a development and test organization, has concluded its Data Hackathon aimed at enhancing airmen’s ability to take advantage of data. Participants from the 412th Test Wing, the 96th Test Wing and the Arnold Engineering Development Complex came together for the five-day event that was simultaneously held in different locations, AFTC […]
The Department of Defense has formally issued requests for proposals to the companies vying for spots on a new enterprise multi-cloud effort. Hyperscale cloud companies Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle received invitations to bid on the DOD’s indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, FedScoop reported. JWCC is the replacement to the potential […]
The Technology Modernization Fund Board is seeing an overwhelming number of project proposals, with there being more demand for investments than available funds. TMF Executive Director Raylene Yung noted more than $2 billion in agency requests, which is more than double the amount appropriated to the funding vehicle under the American Rescue Plan Act in […]
NCI Information Systems announced that it has been awarded a two-year recompete for a $14 million prime contract from the Federal Communications Commission. The contract calls for the delivery of a new, modernized Universal Licensing System with a microservice-based API-driven design that complies with FCC non-functional requirements such as security, accessibility, scalability and data retention […]
Carahsoft announced that it has entered into a partnership to distribute Geosite’s business intelligence software products to government clients. Customers in the Department of Defense, federal agencies and state-level agencies will have streamlined access to Geosite’s suite of software tools for applications that use spatial data, Carahsoft said Wednesday. Rachel Olney, founder and CEO of […]
Penguin Computing, a provider of high-performance computing and artificial intelligence solutions, has released Penguin Computing on Demand HPC/AI Cloud. The solution includes software, hardware and management platforms that eliminate challenges associated with traditional cloud computing. GovPOD HPC/AI Cloud gives federal government users the ability to take advantage of a high-performance computing environment in the cloud […]
