The United States Postal Service has awarded Verizon Business a potential $10-year, $145.7 million contract to support the agency’s migration to a new cloud platform. The cloud transition will enable USPS to speed up its integration of artificial intelligence capabilities for providing better responses to inquiries, thereby enhancing customer satisfaction, Verizon said. According to Maggie […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is planning a program that would integrate new forms of artificial intelligence and other technologies that would speed up the patent application process, ease access to the national intellectual property system and reduce the costs associated with patent searches. Under the Track Three Pilot Program, the USPTO plans to […]
Leaders from various intelligence agencies recently spoke on hurdles to establishing secure and reliable cloud access to information technology services and classified data. Fred Ingham, a CIA employee assigned to serve as the National Reconnaissance Office’s deputy chief information officer, cited limited governance as one reason for a lack of multicloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure […]
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 […]
