The U.S. Navy’s shipboard network team is turning to the cloud to facilitate the delivery of new software tools to sailors. According to Capt. Catherine Boehme of the Naval Information Warfare Systems Command, cloud technology enables the Navy to carry out integration testing before installing software on ships. Boehme’s team is using the cloud for […]
General Dynamics Information Technology said that milCloud 2.0, the company’s warfighter-focused cloud instance, is on track to receive authorization that would allow it to host classified workloads. Jim Matney, vice president and general manager at GDIT, said milCloud 2.0 will likely host additional migrations once it secures Impact Level 6 authorization, Nextgov reported. The Defense […]
MetTel will implement an integrated SD-WAN-based architecture for the National Archives and Records Administration, an agency responsible for preserving publicly available and historically valuable government records. NARA’s jurisdiction includes 44 sites consisting of federal records centers, regional archives, presidential libraries and museums and the Federal Register. Work will be done under the terms of a […]
The House Government Operations Subcommittee has received suggestions to include agencies’ use of grants from the Technology Modernization Fund in the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act scorecard. Kevin Walsh, director of the IT and cybersecurity team at the Government Accountability Office, told members of the subcommittee that while not every agency will benefit from […]
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 […]
