IBM company Octo has secured a 40-month, $8.9 million task order to develop a new auctions platform for the Federal Communications Commission. Octo will work with Nuvitek, Emprata and DefyneIT to support the FCC’s Auction Application System program. The companies will apply software development, cloud services, human-centered design, data migration and management strategy to the […]
Reps. Ken Buck, Anna Eshoo and Ted Lieu have introduced legislation to create a bipartisan, blue-ribbon commission responsible for providing guidance on artificial intelligence regulations. Comprising experts from the civil, labor, public and private sectors, the panel will review existing rules, assess the need for a new government organization and develop a risk-based framework for […]
The Internal Revenue Service is seeking comments from industry regarding its proposed plan to enter into a contract with a managed service provider for a $1.7 billion update of its hybrid cloud Integrated Enterprise Portals platform. Users internal and external to the IRS, including taxpayers, tax-preparers, employees and contractors, rely on these web portals to […]
Sens. Maggie Hassan and John Cornyn have reintroduced the Legacy IT Reduction Act, a bill that would require federal agencies to take stock of internal information technology systems and create modernization plans within two years. The original 2022 proposal never advanced to a full Senate vote despite being cleared by the Homeland Security and Government […]
U.S. Navy Adm. Lisa Franchetti, vice chief of naval operations, toured the Forge software factory on Friday to meet leadership and personnel working on new combat capabilities. Located in Riverdale, Maryland, the Forge is an initiative managed by the Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems aimed at providing the service with a technological advantage over […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs Veterans Canteen Service is seeking a contractor to replace the agency’s Store Inventory Management System. According to a VA presolicitation, the current Oracle-based SIM solution is no longer approved per the Technical Reference Model and is at the end of its life. The current product also lacks a centralized database […]
Identiv, a Fremont, California-based internet of things security and identification solutions provider, received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program marketplace authorization for its cloud-based access control solutions. FedRAMP authorization was granted to the Hirsch Velocity security management software, Velocity Vision video management system and Hirsch Mx Controller suite. The products are physical access control solutions […]
Bluescape has signed a distribution agreement with Carahsoft to make a digital workbench platform more accessible to the public sector. The Bluescape visual collaboration platform, designed to provide remote and hybrid teams with a common digital workspace, holds Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization at the Moderate impact level and a Defense Information Systems […]
The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health has implemented the Military Health System Genesis electronic health record system in seven military treatment facilities across the continental United States. With the effort’s conclusion, Leidos has fulfilled Wave Wright-Patterson, the final tranche of CONUS deployments for the Department of Defense’s EHR system. A number of National Oceanic and […]
Lt. Gen. Maria Barrett, head of U.S. Army Cyber Command, signed a memorandum of agreement in April with David Markowitz, acting chief information officer of the Department of the Army, to strengthen collaboration between ARCYBER and the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency. Officials said the move advances the service branch’s convergence goals for the Unified Network […]
