Rear Adm. Stephen Donald, deputy commander of the U.S. Navy’s 10th Fleet, has asked the industry to identify ways to provide the service with a virtual cloud that can work online and offline. At the recent Navy League’s Sea-Air-Space conference, Donald said the cloud should enable offline capabilities, allow seamless reconnection and serve as an […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded SparkCognition Government Systems a multi-year, $4.2 million contract for artificial intelligence-enabled aircraft support services. SGS will continue providing its Digital Maintenance Advisor solution to support the Air Force’s F-16 fleet. DMA will be applied to additional maintenance, supply and logistics use cases and will support full-spectrum readiness solutions […]
The National Background Investigation Services, the federal government’s one-stop-shop IT system for end-to-end personnel vetting, is planning to award a software asset management contract to an unnamed Native Hawaiian small business. The plan was unveiled in a notice posted on SAM.gov after a new consolidated acquisition method for NBIS was approved in March. According to […]
The Department of the Treasury’s internal watchdog found several faults in the Internal Revenue Service‘s cloud security practices relating to Enterprise Case Management, an Amazon Web Services-hosted platform intended to replace legacy systems for processing tax audit information. In a March 27 report, the inspector general noted that the IRS failed to meet certain action […]
The Department of Energy’s inspector general said the agency is not authorizing and monitoring its cloud computing services properly. According to an IG report, some cloud services used by the DOE, its national laboratories and the National Nuclear Security Administration were onboarded without proper checks for determinations, unmanaged accounts and continuous monitoring. The IG noted […]
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 […]
