John Sherman, the Department of Defense’s chief information officer, has ordered all existing cloud services to transition upon contract expiration to the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability vehicle. In a memo circulated on Aug. 2, he also mandated that all future cloud services sought by DOD components be procured through JWCC. JWCC is the […]
The U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run is preparing to scale its Kessel Run All-Domain Operations Suite to support multi-domain operations for the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. KRADOS is a software application designed to replace the Theater Battle Management Core System. It contains several tools, including the Jigsaw Tanker Planning Tool, which streamlines and optimizes airborne refueling […]
DLH Holdings has secured a position on a five-year, $85 million blanket purchase agreement to provide agile development, data science and health information technology services to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. The company and four other vendors will compete for task orders to modernize the NHLBI IT and Applications Center’s software. The institute’s […]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has launched a solution for securely operating Department of Defense mission workloads and storing data at impact levels 2, 4 and 5, which cover non-critical, controlled unclassified information and mission-critical information. The new offering is meant to enable compliance with the Secure Cloud Computing Architecture, a DOD standard for maintaining the boundary […]
PagerDuty has achieved “in process” status under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its digital operations management platform. PagerDuty Operations Cloud uses artificial intelligence technology to detect and analyze issues in mission- and time-critical operations. It also identifies the appropriate team members to address problems and simplifies the process of resolving them through […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded ECS a potential five-year, $154 million contract for infrastructure engineering services. Under the contract, ECS will work with Commander, Navy Installations Command IT services branch N61 to continue modernizing the service’s public safety network, which enables CNIC mission operations systems worldwide. Specifically, the contractor will provide IT governance and network […]
The Senate has approved four amendments to its version of the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Department of Defense components to address vulnerabilities in artificial intelligence-powered systems. The amendments package, called “AI, Group of Four,” includes language directing the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office to create and implement a […]
Microsoft received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program high authorization on Thursday for its Azure OpenAI service. The FedRAMP authorization allows the government to integrate ChatGPT, DALL-E and other language models into their cloud applications for tasks like natural language-to-code translation, semantic search, content generation and other tasks. According to Microsoft, data used within […]
The U.S. Army has issued a presolicitation notice for a contractor to supply command, control and communications tactical post-deployment software support and post-production software support for the Fires Division within the Software Engineering Center at the Army Communications-Electronics Command. The Fires Division extends life-cycle software solutions and software engineering and sustainment support services. The division’s […]
Ardent, an Arlington, Virginia-based management consulting company, has received a contract from the FBI to deliver advanced geographic information system expertise to the agency’s Directorate of Intelligence. The next-generation contract, the company’s first with the bureau, includes Ardent extending its GIS analytics and software development capabilities to the directorate. Under the contract, the geospatial platform […]
