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 […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency is building a software factory at the unclassified level, whose standards and processes can be adopted by Five Eyes nations when developing their own software, thereby making data sharing easier, DIA Deputy Chief Information Officer E.P. Mathew said in a speech during the recent ACT-IAC Emerging Technology and Innovation Conference. The […]
More Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services have secured authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, increasing the number of OCI offerings available to civilian, defense and intelligence community customers. According to Rand Waldron, vice president of the global government sector at Oracle, the FedRAMP approval assures government agencies that the cloud services employ security […]
U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Linda Fagan said on Wednesday at a Brookings Institution event that the agency has completed its information technology acquisitions and noted it is time to put those capabilities to work by using artificial intelligence and machine learning to make its operations more efficient. The setting up of the Office of […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted moderate-level clearance to five Software AG Government Solutions offerings. According to a press release, the entirety of the company’s product suite is now “fully validated by government.” The Software AG solutions assessed by FedRAMP are intended to support the integration of application programming interfaces, process mining, […]
The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has set in motion the Biden administration’s efforts to pursue the beneficial use of artificial intelligence while addressing and minimizing its risks through the launch of a working group on generative AI that will conduct multi-sectoral consultations prior to making recommendations to the president on how […]
U.S. Army officials said a project introduced in December would help the service get a better sense of the work needed to successfully implement artificial intelligence solutions. Bharat Patel from the Army Program Executive Office for Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, said Project Linchpin would take standard AI and machine learning operations from the private […]
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman, a 2023 Wash100 awardee, wants to fast-track the provision of top-secret cloud capabilities to warfighters as the tools are critical for ground forces operating on the battlefield. Sherman said on Thursday at DefenseScoop’s DefenseTalks that the Pentagon never had the enterprise cloud capability arising from the $9 […]
