The Department of Agriculture has awarded CACI International a seven-year, $376 million task order to support its Web Based Supply Chain Management system. Under the terms of the task, CACI will provide sustainment services and perform business process improvements to the WBSCM system. Services include facilitating cloud migration, modernizing the system’s built-in SAP S/4HANA platform […]
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center wants to connect AI projects across the Department of Defense enterprise with the cloud environment that best suits them. To do so, JAIC plans to establish a joint common fabric of development environments that will provide universal access to the various cloud and software development platforms used by different DOD […]
GRSi, an information technology service management company, has been awarded a five-year contract to provide operations services to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The $96 million contract will expand NHLBI’s infrastructure, multi-cloud posture, DevSecOps and continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, enterprise operations and service management and configuration management, GRSi said Thursday. CI/CD refers to […]
Telos has announced that its Xacta compliance solution will support Microsoft Azure government cloud instances at all security levels. Xacta was purpose-built to automate tasks associated with getting systems and networks to comply with security frameworks, Telos said Tuesday. Such frameworks include the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework, the Federal Risk and […]
In a recent FedInsider webinar, chief technology officers from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency touted the benefits of emerging technologies in enhancing mission delivery. FEMA CTO Ted Okada said emerging technologies like automation tools and artificial intelligence can facilitate information technology modernization and cloud migration. CISA CTO Brian […]
The Department of Defense needs to implement DevSecOps across its enterprise to be able to support continuous information technology modernization, one expert said. Steve Wallace, a systems innovation scientist at the Defense Information Systems Agency, said DevSecOps prevents situations where the DOD needs to update everything at once, leading to a “technical deficit,” Federal News […]
Amazon Web Services said its cloud computing services are now available for customers on the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific’s Secret Wide Area Network. In 2020, NIWC Pacific made the AWS Secret Region Impact Level 6 environment available for both internal and external customers in the Department of Defense, AWS said. IL-6 is the Pentagon’s […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency wants to utilize the CIA’s multi billion-dollar Commercial Cloud Enterprise contract to leverage expanded cloud capabilities. While certain details of the contract remain undisclosed, the DIA said it intends to procure services for more cloud storage and edge computing under C2E. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple-award contract has already been awarded to five […]
The White House has asked Congress for $500 million in additional funding for the General Services Administration’s Technology Modernization Fund as part of its discretionary funding request for fiscal year 2022. According to the White House, the money would facilitate the modernization of agencies’ antiquated information systems. In particular, the TMF funding would be directed […]
The Department of the Treasury is leaning towards awarding its enterprise cloud contract, dubbed TCloud, to a single vendor. Officials confirmed the Treasury Department’s plan to issue a single award for the $1 billion contract in a clarification document, noting that the move would best advance the rapid adoption of cloud across the organization. TCloud […]
