The Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is looking for vendors that can provide test and evaluation services. On behalf of JAIC, the Army Contracting Command-Rock Island plans to award multiple blanket purchase agreements worth $249 million in total, SAM.gov posted Thursday. The performance work statement calls for the acquisition, development, integration, operation, support […]
The U.S. Army has renewed the contract of IBM to continue supporting the Army Materiel Command's Logistics Data Analysis Center by providing a full portfolio of information technology management services. On Feb. 10, IBM announced that it received the military branch’s third iteration of the LDAC IT Services contract. Over the next five years, the […]
Parsons said it will help the Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Army Research Laboratory develop experimental technologies in support of warfighters. The Army awarded a five-year, $69 million contract for the research and development of solutions related to tactical computational architectures, scalable technologies, machine learning and high-performance computing, Parsons said Tuesday. “Our mission is to […]
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center is looking to issue a multiple-award contract within the month to give the Department of Defense enterprise access to private sector support for AI testing needs. JAIC’s head of AI testing and evaluation, Jane Pinelis, told attendees at a recent AFCEA DC event that the contract’s design for enterprise-wide use […]
The Marine Corps has asked industry to recommend technologies that can be used to analyze open-source information, including online public data. The service said its Capabilities Development Directorate has been working to identify gaps in the Marine Corps Information Environment Enterprise's publicly available information and OSINT analytics capabilities, SAM.gov posted. OSINT is intelligence that is […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency's Office of the Chief Procurement Officer has issued a request for information to gauge industry expertise and capabilities with regards to improving its adoption of robotics process automation. The RFI came with a corresponding matrix where the OCPO listed a range of processes, workflows and procedures that it hopes to […]
Department of Defense leaders are working out how to constantly move enterprise-level data to and from the tactical level as part of the department's enterprise-wide data strategy. DOD acting Deputy Chief Information Officer Clark Cully said 5G is one candidate technology that could drive information from the enterprise level down to the tactical edge, Nextgov […]
The federal government spent a total of $6.6 billion on cloud computing in fiscal 2020, an increase from the $6.1 billion spending the previous fiscal year, a report showed. Bloomberg Government's analysis showed that the growth federal cloud slowed in fiscal 2020 due to major contract protests and delays caused by the pandemic, Nextgov reported. […]
Twelve technology advocacy groups have called on lawmakers to add $9 billion to the Technology Modernization Fund to enhance the federal government's information technology and networks. The advocacy groups, composed of the biggest names in the technology sector, said Americans are inconvenienced by the federal government's nemerous legacy IT systems and paper-based processes, Nextgov reported. […]
Microsoft said its new additions to the Azure ecosystem will help accelerate the development of American microelectronics as well as secure its supply chain. The company previously announced it is leading a coalition of major government contractors to support the Department of Defense's Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes using Advanced Commercial Capabilities Project, Nextgov reported Thursday. […]
