The U.S. Coast Guard’s cloud and data branch is building a software development foundation, an effort that involves moving systems into the cloud and improving data management to support decision-making related to application development. In an interview for Federal Monthly Insights – Feature Management – Cyber Perspective, Jonathan White, the Coast Guard’s cloud and data […]
The Department of Defense is set to issue the first Joint Warfighting Capability Contract task orders. Sharon Woods, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency Hosting and Compute Center, said in a Defense One-hosed online event that secret-level bidding opportunities will be available in the coming weeks while top-secret contracts will be ready in the […]
Carahsoft Technology will distribute SentientDB, a cloud-based database platform as a service from Verge Technologies, to public sector customers as part of a new partnership. Verge CEO Jimmy Jobe said the product addresses the government’s real-time connectivity and data retrieval needs using artificial intelligence. SentientDB is aimed at providing hybrid and convergent cloud database management […]
Three additional AvePoint software-as-a-service offerings have achieved FedRAMP moderate authorization, which certifies that the products comply with government security standards. The new FedRAMP-authorized SaaS solutions are Cloud Backup for Azure Active Directory, Virtual Machines and Blob Storage; ReCenter for finding and restoring lost data in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace; and Confide, a Microsoft 365-hosted […]
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has awarded CGI Federal a potential five-year, $40 million contract for financial management systems support services. CGI Federal will continue offering its Momentum federal enterprise resource planning solution to the NRC Office of the Chief Financial Officer. Momentum is a cloud-based, agency-wide system that gives the CFO Office a holistic […]
Doug Wade, the head of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s China Mission Group, emphasized the importance of collaboration with the public, private and academic sectors to achieve enhanced data collection and analysis capabilities. He said at a media event Tuesday that his organization has already onboarded data specialists to improve analytics usage, adding that artificial intelligence […]
VMware’s Horizon Cloud Service has attained high-level authority to operate from the federal and state risk and authorization management programs. Federal and state entities are now able to utilize the solution to meet virtual desktop infrastructure and application workload requirements on-premises and on Microsoft Azure GovCloud. Horizon Cloud Service is meant to provide a central, […]
The Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance is soliciting applications to receive funding under the new $8 million Smart Policing Initiative grant program. In a funding notice, the BJA said it wants to support projects focused on the development of toolkits, including web-based dashboards and online portals, for monitoring, preventing and responding to criminal […]
The U.S. Marine Corps is working with the U.S. Army on a three-year pilot program designed to help personnel create software solutions using agile techniques. According to Lt. Gen. Matthew Glavy, deputy commandant for information at the USMC, the Marine Corps Software Factory will train experts in agile tech development, giving warfighters an advantage at […]
The Department of State has awarded Palantir Technologies a five-year, $99.6 million contract for data management and data-enabled decision-making services. Palantir will help the department’s Bureau of Medical Services create an enterprise management platform called Project Axiom. The solution will give the MED an enhanced data-enabled decision-making capability, supporting the department’s emergency management and preparedness, […]
