Accenture Federal Services has secured a position on the Internal Revenue Service’s seven-year, $2.6 billion Enterprise Development, Operations Services blanket purchase agreement for systems modernization. The company will compete with Maximus, Booz Allen Hamilton and IBM to support efforts by the IRS’ applications development office to devise new modes of customer interaction. Jessica Powell, managing […]
The 805th Combat Training Squadron deployed a prototype of Raytheon Missiles & Defense’s Airspace Total Awareness for Rapid Tactical Execution software during a field experiment. The event was aimed at enhancing airspace management and joint fires integrations between the tactical command and control units of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force. Development objectives […]
UiPath has partnered with Peraton to provide U.S. intelligence, defense and civilian agencies with its cloud-based automation platform, which combines a robotic process automation solution and other capabilities to understand, automate and operate end-to-end processes. The collaboration with Peraton will allow deploying the artificial intelligence-powered platform in sensitive environments as a managed service through the […]
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded Spire Communications and Apprio a three-year contract to revamp HealthIT .gov. The two companies will review and analyze the website’s content, remodel the site’s internal architecture and redesign the layout. Spire President Ivy Eckerman highlighted her company’s decade-long history of work with ONC […]
The U.S. Air Force plans to improve its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities with a focus on digital infrastructure. Lt. Gen. Leah Lauderback, deputy chief of staff for ISR and cyber effects operations at the Air Force, said during a Mitchell Institute webinar that the service now has the funding it needs to pursue ISR […]
Research Innovations Inc. has secured a $54 million firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide the service with software tools for the Command and Control of the Information Environment program. According to a Department of Defense announcement, work involves developing software that can deliver artificial intelligence-enabled C2, situational awareness and data analytics […]
Federal Chief Information Officer Clare Martorana expressed her frustration on Thursday during the Department of Labor’s Federal Tech Day conference over the government’s slow digitalization efforts and outdated form submission systems that led to a $38 billion annual paper expenditure despite the signing into law of the 21st Century IDEA Act in 2018. Martorana, who […]
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Ethiopia mission has awarded consulting and engineering services provider Tetra Tech a five-year, $48 million contract to build a learning platform aimed at supporting program decision-making through predictive data analytics. Tetra Tech is tasked with using research modeling methods to encourage data collection and analysis on the platform and […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted authorization to critical event management provider OnSolve, indicating that the company passed an assessment of cloud security requirements for government use. With the new designation, federal agencies would be able to deploy OnSolve’s solution to improve their security posture. OnSolve offers a cloud-based platform intended to […]
Digital transformation services provider DLH Holdings has received a potential five-year, $18.6 million contract extending and expanding information technology services for the National Institute on Aging, a National Institutes of Health component that studies processes and conditions related to growing older. DLH is expected to modernize the NIA Intramural Research Program by instituting DevSecOps and […]
