The Department of the Interior has opened the bidding process for its potential 10-year, $1 billion Foundation Cloud Hosting Services 2 contract vehicle. According to the DOI’s request for proposals, the contract will allow the department to procure cloud services from federal technology integrators who would also develop a cloud-production environment and provide deployment support. […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Boston-based Aqua Security a multimillion-dollar contract for cyber protection services aimed at enabling cloud expansion, zero-trust implementation and secure software development. Aqua announced that it will provide a cloud-native application protection platform consisting of a set of security and compliance capabilities that can rapidly identify and neutralize risk throughout the […]
U.S. Chief Data Scientist Dominique Duval-Diop said the Office of Management and Budget is developing new data collection standards for race and ethnicity and identifying best practices for gathering sexual identity data. The OMB’s effort is part of an ongoing initiative involving executive agencies aimed at getting data ready for artificial intelligence to enable data-driven […]
The Office of Management and Budget issued on Friday a memorandum extending the deadline for U.S. federal agencies to start collecting software security attestation forms from contractors. Agencies were originally given until June 12 to collect the forms for critical software and until Sept. 14 for all other software. The latest memo anchors the extension […]
The Defense Technical Information Center will train Microsoft’s cloud-based generative artificial intelligence service using defense data. DTIC is a unit of the Department of Defense responsible for storing and disseminating research and technical information. Microsoft’s generative AI capabilities are developed by OpenAI, the company behind the commercially available large language model ChatGPT. A DOD spokesperson […]
ManTech has revealed that it has worked with the Defense Information Systems Agency to write and design the Zero Trust Reference Architecture for the Department of Defense’s cloud-based Zero Trust Government Laboratory. GovLab is the first DOD facility dedicated to evaluating zero trust capabilities against the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Risk Management Framework […]
Two separate artificial intelligence bills were introduced in the Senate on Thursday in a bid to regulate AI use in the country. Sens. Gary Peters, Mike Braun and James Lankford introduced a bill that would require agencies to devise an appeals system for decisions made by AI and to exercise transparency when the agency is […]
Snowflake has combined its data platform, partner solutions and industry-specific datasets to develop a new data cloud for government agencies and educational institutions. According to Jeff Frazier, global head of the public sector at Snowflake, the Government & Education Data Cloud will provide organizations with the data they need and help them accelerate modernization efforts. […]
Congress wants the Department of Veterans Affairs to use automation to deal with a growing backlog of benefits claims enabled by the Honoring Our PACT Act of 2022, which widened eligibility for soldiers exposed to toxic substances. The law requires VA to develop a Veterans Benefits Administration modernization plan that incorporates automation to accelerate claims […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency aims to complete the migration of all its grant programs from legacy systems onto a single IT platform, called FEMA Grants Outcomes, by April 2024. In a recent Senate hearing, FEMA Chief Information Officer Charlie Armstrong told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee’s emerging threats subcommittee that the […]
