Arizona-based GlobalMed announced that its virtual health platform has received a Defense Health Agency authority to operate on the Department of Defense’s DHA Medical Community of Interest network. The certification allows the company to integrate its virtual health platform, including carts, medical devices, software and applications directly with the COI network, GlobalMed said Tuesday. With this […]
Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana expects the next round of Technology Modernization Fund awards to be made within a couple of weeks. “We are working every single week on the portfolio. Right now we are looking at the backlog of projects, some of them less complete than others in their submissions,” Martorana told Bloomberg. […]
The General Services Administration plans to reduce barriers for Login .gov adoption through more partnerships, infrastructure and methodologies for high-impact servers. The announcement comes after the Technology Modernization Fund Board awarded almost $187 million in awards to the GSA for the sign-on shared service. According to a GSA spokesperson, partnerships would entice larger agencies like […]
The Defense Digital Service is modifying its automated background investigation tool to be focused more on identifying insider threats. DDS, a Department of Defense team of software and data professionals, began developing the System for Automated Background Evaluation and Review in 2019 as part of the government’s Trusted Workforce 2.0 program, Nextgov reported. SABER was […]
The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit recently learned how a secure approach to using commercial cloud services could work outside of the agency’s traditional methodology. Rick Simon, program manager for the Secure Cloud Management project, said three prototypes out of the 29 respondents to the office’s request for white papers yielded promising solutions to the Department […]
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 wants to build a unified cloud environment as a key piece of its new Army Digital Transformation Strategy, aimed at centralizing its computer systems, data standards, cloud capabilities and cybersecurity procedures. To achieve this objective, the Army’s leadership has realized that they have to turn to non-traditional procurement paths, the service’s chief […]
The U.S. Army said it plans to use a digital engineering approach to develop the service’s next-generation optionally manned fighting vehicle and other future ground combat vehicles. The anticipated OMFV will replace the Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle. Col. James Schirmer, project manager for the Army’s armored fighting vehicles, said during the annual AUSA conference that […]
The U.S. Army is set to field the Cyber Situational Understanding tool, which works to give commanders a picture of a digital battlespace. The offering underwent an operational test last summer. According to Lt. Col. Scott Shaffer, product lead for mission command cyber at Program Executive Office Command, Control, Communications-Tactical, the solution would be deployed […]
Multinational consulting firm Deloitte announced an expansion of its collaboration with software company ServiceNow, to offer a new version of the IT operations platform, OperateEdge. The new product, called OperateEdge powered by ServiceNow, combines the partners’ capabilities, including IT service and operations management, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The pooling of strengths is touted to […]
