Jeff Shilling, the National Cancer Institute’s chief information officer, had a recent interview with Federal News Network where he discussed his approach to migrating information technology systems to the cloud. NCI aims to set up two cloud environments covering all new development activities. According to Shilling, the agency has already transferred several of its virtual […]
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is conducting a study aimed at detecting rogue nuclear threats using data analytics and machine learning algorithms. Researchers at the Department of Energy’s national laboratory are employing their knowledge of nuclear nonproliferation and combining it with artificial reasoning to monitor materials that can potentially be used for producing nuclear weapons, […]
The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health says the Military Health Systems Genesis platform is now operational at over 2,700 locations following its deployment to an additional nine military treatment facilities. The latest rollout brings the EHR to facilities in the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia, the Leidos Partnership for Defense Health said. Liz Porter, […]
Senators received updates on Wednesday regarding the Department of Defense’s progress on implementing cloud computing. Chief Information Officer John Sherman said at a hearing of the Senate Armed Services Committee’s cybersecurity subcommittee that Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle are now offering enterprise cloud services to the DOD under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability. […]
The Department of Defense intends to keep the program executive office that manages the agency’s electronic health record system even as the platform nears deployment completion. According to Holly Joers, program executive officer for Defense Healthcare Management Systems, MHS Genesis brings new capabilities in addition to record-keeping. She said the system will help enable patient-centered […]
The Department of Defense has awarded the first batch of task orders under the potential $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract to Google, Oracle, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft – the four vendors that secured spots on the JWCC contract in December. According to a Defense Information Systems Agency spokesperson, each company received a […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has issued a high impact level authorization for Okta’s identity platform for U.S. federal agencies. Okta for Government High is a cloud-enabled platform that covers federal and public identity use cases and allows users to accelerate their zero trust security architecture efforts. It also supports cloud adoption efforts […]
Collins Aerospace Mission Systems’ Cloud Cap Technology subsidiary has entered into a distribution agreement with aviation services firm AAR. The company is now authorized to market TASE and Piccolo, which are meant to provide imaging and flight management capabilities to manned and unmanned aerial systems used for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. In a press […]
NASA has unveiled its plan to merge its 11 cloud contracts with Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform into a single contract set aside for small businesses to be awarded through the NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement vehicle. According to a special notice from NASA, a small business reseller would deliver the […]
The U.S. Space Force seeks $187.37 million for fiscal year 2024 to enhance the Unified Data Library, a cloud-based repository that takes data from multiple sources to support situational awareness. Lisa Costa, the Space Force’s chief technology and innovation officer, said during the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Space Force IT Day that UDL […]
