Palo Alto-based VMWare was conferred a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program “High” authorization rating for its Cloud products. The “High” rating represents the most secure of three authorization levels that cloud service providers can achieve when seeking approval through FedRAMP, the U.S. government’s security level classification for cloud products and services. The U.S. Marshals […]
Octo and Tyto Athene announced the creation of a new joint venture company that seeks to combine their IT modernization and digital transformation capabilities to better meet the demands of the U.S. federal government market. The new entity will be known as Octo-Athene and it will offer end-to-end solutions with capabilities ranging from network modernization […]
CrowdStrike’s Falcon Forensics solution is now available on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program marketplace. The FedRAMP-approved solution is hosted within GovCloud and is designed to streamline the collection of point-in-time and historic forensic triage data. It also provides increased visibility and automated analysis of attacker activity, enabling swift response and remediation of critical […]
Carahsoft Technology, a government information technology solutions provider, and Cygnus Technologies, a cloud-focused technology reseller and services provider, have released a new turnkey cloud services stack designed for organizations in the public sector. CloudStack allows federal, state and local government agencies to quickly deploy scalable zero trust capabilities supporting data management. With CloudStack, users are […]
Qlik has announced that its cloud government analytics platform received “In Process” designation at the moderate impact level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. 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 […]
The Department of Justice has awarded NTT Data a contract to build a case management system designed to improve the federal reporting function of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. NICS is operated by the FBI and used by gun shop owners, pawn shop dealers and retailers to determine if a person can legally […]
CloudBees, an enterprise software specialist, has formed a corporate partnership with CACI International to rapidly field new capabilities and consistently deliver high-quality software. CACI is an information technology and professional services company that serves federal government clients in the defense, homeland security, intelligence and health care sectors. The partnership will benefit from CACI’s competence in […]
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded its Paper and Remittance Processing Support III prime contract to Leidos, a Reston, Virginia-based company that provides science and technology solutions to a wide variety of clients. The contract will allow Leidos to support the Integrated Submissions and Remittance Processing System and the Service Center Recognition Image Processing System, […]
The federal software-as-a-service platform of software company Everlaw has been moved to Amazon Web Services GovCloud (US), according to a Sept. 13 press release. The migration to AWS GovCloud (US) makes the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant software one of the first cloud-native e-discovery, collaboration and document review solutions to meet the U.S. government […]
The Office of Personnel Management plans on establishing a working capital fund, if given the authority by Congress, to support much-needed information technology modernization projects. Setting up an IT working capital fund was one of the key recommendations by the National Academy of Public Administration in a March report focused on addressing the challenges of […]
