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 […]
The Amazon Web Services Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community now offers Rubrik Security Cloud, which is meant to provide zero-trust data protection capabilities using machine learning. Specifically, Rubrik aims to offer a way to easily set up an enterprise-level cybersecurity platform that offers data resilience, observability and remediation capabilities. According to Brendan McCarthy, vice […]
The Technology Modernization Fund will allocate $100 million toward customer experience initiatives at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. USAID is developing an enterprise-wide customer relationship management system while the RRB is planning to introduce online self-services for accessing benefits. Clare Martorana, the TMF board chair and a 2022 […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s Joint Authorization Board has granted high impact status to the cloud-based software-as-a-service solution of public safety technology company Axon Enterprise. With the FedRAMP high-impact authorization, the company can serve government customers handling sensitive unclassified information. The FedCloud SaaS solution, which previously held moderate-level impact status, supports digital evidence […]
Amazon Web Services has secured a five-year, $723.9 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide access to the company’s commercial cloud environment. Under the single-award, firm-fixed-price software license blanket purchase agreement, the Navy will be able to issue task orders under an enterprise software license agreement that would allow it to use AWS tools. […]
The U.S. Army will roll out a new virtual desktop capability in the coming weeks that will give soldiers and civilian personnel a more flexible work arrangement. The capability features cloud-based virtualized desktops and applications that personnel can use to access their work. The introduction of the new technology is part of the service’s push […]
The Department of the Air Force is considering using facial recognition technology to prove a person’s identity when entering bases. According to a sources-sought notice posted on SAM .gov, the Air Force plans to conduct a proof-of-concept for facial recognition at Scott Air Force Base. During the pilot, facial recognition will facilitate entry approval and […]
Jay Bonci, chief technology officer of the Department of the Air Force, told C4ISRNET at a Dec. 14 webinar that efforts are underway to find ways to drive adoption, reduce costs and scale Cloud One, a service-wide platform meant to connect and provide information technology access for warfighters maintained by Science Applications International Corp. under […]
