Red Hat has announced that its OpenShift Service has received an “in-process” designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, indicating that the company is working to achieve proper authorization in collaboration with a federal agency or the Joint Authorization Board. OpenShift is an Amazon Web Services GovCloud platform for creating, modernizing and deploying […]
Rep. Matt Cartwright has led the introduction of the House of Representatives version of the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets Act, which he said would simplify how the government acquires software. The proposed SAMOSA Act would require software licenses to be unified across federal agencies and compel cost and volume reviews by […]
Agencies at the federal, state and local levels can now directly tap Thoughtworks Federal to support their modernization efforts, made possible through a five-year multiple-award schedule contract the General Services Administration awarded to the Thoughtworks subsidiary. According to Jonah Czerwinski, Thoughtworks Federal’s head of growth, the MAS contract allowed the company to secure the preferred […]
The Department of Defense has awarded artificial intelligence solutions provider Accrete a five-year production operational technology software licensing contract for its Argus software. Argus is an AI-enabled, dual-use, open-source threat detection software product. It supports national security analysis, including supply chain risk management, vulnerability research, insider threat detection and intellectual property theft. The software ingests […]
The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to roll out the Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure Provider Suite, a new contracting vehicle intended to simplify how its subagencies source infrastructure hosting services. Under ECLIPS, four to eight vendors would receive single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts with five-year base periods, FCW reported. Among the capabilities sought are infrastructure, platform and […]
The National Archives and Records Administration expects the latest version of its Electronic Records Archives system to be fully operational by the first quarter of 2023. ERA 2.0 features cloud-based tools for processing and transferring digital records and a new dashboard for tracking the status of record scheduling and transfer requests. The system has already […]
Okta has launched a new cloud-native identity solution for the Department of Defense and its mission partners. The Okta for US Military platform built on Amazon Web Services GovCloud and hosted on the .mil domain is designed to provide Impact Level 4 protection for controlled unclassified information by connecting Defense Information Systems Network users through […]
The Department of the Navy has selected Radiant Logic‘s RadiantOne Intelligent Identity Data Platform to enable the creation and structure of the Naval Identity Services, the department’s planned enterprise identity, credential and access management solution. RadiantOne will consolidate identity information across the Navy Department to enhance its overall network cybersecurity posture. RadiantOne enables a cloud-based […]
Science Applications International Corp. has won a $757 million contract extending support for the U.S. Army Enterprise Service Desk will software development and management services. In addition to service desk operations, the agreement calls for the company to optimize the Army Enterprise Service Management Framework’s service delivery processes, adding new functionality to the software-as-a-service and […]
Denis McDonough, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, told attendees of a Nov. 9 town hall meeting in Washington, D.C., that progress was being made on the transfer of military service records to the cloud and the development of automated data extraction tools. He explained that the agency’s efforts will accelerate internal decision-making, expanding […]
