The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking sources for a cybersecurity tool that can help the agency safely collaborate with commercial vendors. On behalf of DIU, the Washington Headquarters Service is looking for a multifactor authentication tool that can verify user identities without the use of the Department of Defense’s standard ID, C4ISRNET reported. DIU said […]
CGI’s Momentum Enterprise Suite Software as a Service has received authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board. The milestone indicates that the SaaS platform can now be used by federal agencies for cloud deployment. FedRAMP granted the authorization after a rigorous authorization process and a six-month trial, CGI said. In […]
Aaron Weis, chief information officer of the Navy and a 2021 Wash100 winner, stressed the importance of a robust global information technology infrastructure in achieving information superiority. Modern technologies will play a key role in allowing the Navy to provide accurate and timely data and services to naval warfighters and the civilian teams that support […]
Leidos has been awarded a spot on the Defense Intelligence Agency’s potential $12.6 billion Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise III contract vehicle. SITE III is a 10-year multiple-award contract that covers cybersecurity, application development and sustainment, connectivity, network services, enterprise computing, cloud services and other IT services. Under the terms of SITE III, Leidos […]
The Department of Defense has awarded GE Research two contracts totaling $36 million to create 5G-enabled smart warehouses at the Naval Base San Diego in California and Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany in Georgia. GE Research will be utilizing digital twins to build the smart warehouses. The virtual replicas will integrate real-time asset tracking and […]
Nutanix, a cloud computing company, announced that its Clusters cloud platform now extends to Amazon Web Services GovCloud. The Clusters platform covers Nutanix on-premise and hard disk Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances running on the AWS GovCloud region, Nutanix said. Chip George, vice president of U.S. public-sector sales at Nutanix, said previous offerings did not […]
Booz Allen Hamilton has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Liberty IT Solutions, a small business specializing in health information technology. The $725 million transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of fiscal year 2022 and is subject to customary closing conditions. Booz Allen said the acquisition is aimed at enhancing its […]
Astadia, a mainframe modernization company, said it has completed a large-scale migration of a mission-critical Air Force maintenance system to Microsoft Azure. The project’s objective is to modernize the Air Force’s Unisys mainframe, which the Government Accountability Office identified as one of the most critical legacy systems that required modernization, Astadia said Tuesday. In a […]
The new model for the Technology Modernization Fund offers a more flexible repayment method for federal agencies. As per the updated model, not all agencies will be required to repay TMF funding in full. The repayment scheme will be divided into three categories and will be based on a project’s cost savings, the General Services […]
ManTech has entered into a partnership agreement with Google Cloud to provide the U.S. federal government with cloud and analytics services. As part of the agreement, ManTech was named a Google Cloud premier partner. With the label, the Herndon, Virginia-headquartered government contractor can now use Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to develop […]
