The Department of the Air Force will host its virtual Digital Drivers Forum on Jan. 17. The event will allow Air Force officials and members of the digital transformation community to drive strategic alignment on the service’s digital transformation priorities for 2023. Participants will also be encouraged to discuss accomplishments, program priorities, enterprise needs and […]
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is implementing a new software-as-a-service governance program that aims to better manage the transfer of systems and applications to the cloud and monitor and evaluate the risks of SaaS products. Shawnte Singletary, the deputy director of the Division of Security and Privacy Compliance in the Office of Information […]
The National Science Foundation has introduced a new initiative to increase minority-serving institution involvement in artificial intelligence research, education and workforce development. MSIs include historically Black colleges and universities, Hispanic-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities and Asian American and Pacific Islander-serving institutions. Expanding AI Innovation Through Capacity Building and Partnerships contains two tracks that differ […]
The Department of the Air Force’s Digital Transformation Office is looking for technologies that can improve the ingestion, digestion and analysis of digital models in support of the U.S. Air Force Unified Certification Strategy, which aims to simplify the certification of airworthiness, cybersecurity and nuclear surety of systems and its digital architecture. The Air Force […]
The Technology Modernization Fund will receive $50 million in funding from the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023. The additional funding will help TMF support federal agency IT modernization projects. The final sum represents a compromise figure after the Senate’s version of the bill identified extra support for TMF, including additional allocations from the American Rescue […]
Software company FiscalNote will upgrade its Fireside constituent relationship management platform with the incorporation of artificial intelligence-powered technology. The CRM software-as-a service platform is designed for federal, state and governments to enhance communications with their constituents. Updating Fireside will give press secretaries, communications directors, chiefs of staff, speechwriters and district office staff quick and direct […]
Absolute Software, an IT and cybersecurity company based in Canada, has announced that its Absolute Secure Endpoint solution suite has been granted a ready designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Absolute Secure Endpoint is designed to support federal agencies in their efforts to strengthen cyber resiliency. It allows authorized users to maintain […]
Department of Defense and intelligence community officials said that the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program represents an opportunity for greater collaboration. According to Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and a 2022 Wash100 winner, the JWCC enables both entities to jointly utilize vendor-supplied capabilities. Skinner was joined at the DOD […]
Pinehurst, North Carolina-based IT services provider Terida has secured an in process designation from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its Terida RegTech Framework – CLASsoft offering. CLASsoft is a cloud-based infrastructure-as-a-service solution that uses Amazon Web Services. It provides security, continuous monitoring and controls for the entire regulatory technology process. CLASsoft integrates […]
Three teams of cyber defenders that participated in NATO’s Cyber Coalition 2022 used a prototype of the Autonomous Intelligence Cyberdefense Agent computer defense software developed by the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory to help them protect computer-based systems and power grids from cyberattacks. AICA, powered by artificial intelligence, enables data collection and analysis and […]
