Illumio’s Government Cloud suite of security programs has received the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program in process status at the moderate impact level with support from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General. The California-based data and cloud protection provider offers zero trust segmentation capabilities that automatically contain breaches […]
The U.S. Transportation Command has awarded Science Applications International Corp. a potential five-year, $150 million contract for IT modernization services. Under the single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Managed Information Technology Services contract, SAIC will modernize nearly all of TRANSCOM’s enterprise IT services and introduce IT-as-a-Service models. Work will ensure that TRANSCOM’s IT products have the latest innovations. The […]
The U.S. Coast Guard Research and Development Center is looking into existing or in-development programs that can evaluate the effectiveness of a mooring configuration for aid to navigation in maritime environments. The selected software is planned to replace Computer-Aided Mooring Selection Guide, the present Coast Guard tool for modeling and analyzing buoy positions in oceans, […]
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 […]
