The U.S. Army will spend $290 million over the coming months to accelerate the migration of several legacy applications to the cloud as part of its digital transformation efforts. Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo unveiled the plan during his keynote address at the Army IT Day conference. The transition to the cloud will allow the service […]
Spider Strategies’ Impact for Government offering has obtained certification from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, a standard security assessment process for cloud-based software and services. Impact for Government is intended to provide users with a means of managing key performance indicators, generating reports, holding meetings, visualizing business intelligence and enacting data governance policies, […]
NetImpact Strategies has secured a $60 million Information Technology Operations contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture to provide modernization support. The company will support the various IT applications and hardware used by the Natural Resources Conservation Service, a USDA component that supports farmers and owners of private farm and forest lands. Current and future […]
Allan Friedman, a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency senior adviser, said that efforts are underway to devise a government-wide approach to open-source software, which is composed of publicly accessible and usable code. During a keynote speech at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event, he explained that the Office of the National Cyber Director […]
The Department of the Air Force has awarded Science Applications International Corp. a $112 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the Advanced Battle Management System program. SAIC will provide agile DevSecOps and portfolio and product management for ABMS cloud-based command and control, supporting the platform’s tactical C2 kill chains. The capability will be initially delivered to […]
U.S. federal agencies and government contractors can now process and store sensitive unclassified data using Nuix Discover for Government, which recently attained the FedRAMP ready designation at the high-security impact level. Nuix Discover offers eDiscovery processing, review, analytics and predictive coding technologies packaged in one software-as-a-service solution that can be hosted in Nuix’s cloud environment […]
The U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory placed an artificial intelligence toolbox under trials during two military exercises. The toolbox jointly developed by Dtsl and AFRL is designed to deliver mission-specific AI capabilities to warfighters in joint military missions. It provides data collected from uncrewed ground and aerial […]
The 2023 omnibus funding bill includes a provision that gives the Federal Citizen Services Fund a new tool that allows agencies to transfer money to the General Services Administration for technological efforts. Experts say the new tool could help the FCFS fund existing programs and cross-agency customer experience work. According to the omnibus bill, the […]
SteelCloud and Telos have entered into a partnership to provide a consolidated platform for organizations looking to comply with the National Institutes of Standards and Technology’s Risk Management Framework. RMF is a seven-step process that adds security, privacy and cyber supply chain risk management elements to system development. The alliance aims to offer services for […]
Leidos will support the digital modernization work of Accenture Federal Services within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a subcontractor. AFS won a three-year $169 million cloud modernization contract with the CDC in October 2022 to enhance the agency’s IT legacy systems and accelerate their migration into a secure cloud environment. The company […]
