The Department of the Air Force has issued a request for information for an anticipated follow-on contract for the Cloud One program. Cloud One is the Air Force’s platform for IT capabilities and secure computing. It grants secure access to commercial cloud services and environments and automates cloud services and networking. According to the RFI, […]
The Department of the Interior is requesting proposals to support cloud migration efforts across the agency. According to a solicitation posted on SAM .gov, DOI intends to award a potential $1 billion, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Cloud Hosting Service III contract, which has a five-year base and three two-year option periods. Work under the contract includes migrating technology […]
Sharon Woods, the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Hosting and Compute Center, said that officials expect the Department of Defense to award the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract in mid-December. The original plan was to award it in April but the DOD opted to push the deadline back following the issuance […]
The Army Software Factory has posted a request for information regarding industry capacity to deliver technical capabilities in education, hybrid cloud and cybersecurity. Specifically, the Army Futures Command unit is looking into how the private sector can enhance internal software development training for soldiers and civilian personnel, prototype diverse hybrid cloud hosting technologies and deploy […]
The U.S. Air Force is continuing to pursue cloud services that would allow its intelligence community to operate regardless of connectivity conditions. Norman Leach, a director within the Air Force Research Laboratory‘s information directorate, said cloud offerings should work even in areas with higher latencies and lower network reach. He suggested that while hotspots or […]
Acuity has signed a new licensing agreement with ServiceNow. Under the agreement, Acuity can resell ServiceNow licenses to customers in the federal government. Eric Lazerson, vice president of Acuity’s Technology Solutions Group, explained that the agreement will enable the company to “ensure that the number and type of licenses our customers purchase reflect the organizational […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement awarded Unissant a five-year spot under the $340 million Scalable Ways to Implement Flexible Tasks indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The Herndon, Virginia-based information technology company secured one of two positions under SWIFT’s visualization domain area, for which it will upgrade ICE’s dashboard and public reporting capabilities. Other technologies […]
Special Operations Command Pacific has begun rolling out a cloud-based commercial enterprise tactical mission network pilot program to support stealth, lethality and agile missions in the Indo-Pacific region. Speaking at AFCEA TechNet Indo-Pacific in Honolulu, Col. Ronnie Geronimo, director of communications at SOCPAC, said the network will host several platforms, including a force protection interface. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate is working on several capabilities that would support entities that are working on soft target physical security. One of the solutions is called Special Event Planning Tools, a software suite that will support decision-making through security assessments. Ali Fadel, Soft Targets Security program manager at DHS […]
ICF has won a spot under the Scalable Ways to Implement Flexible Tasks indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to modernize technology delivery in the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. The award gives ICF the opportunity to compete in the platform-as-a-service domain. The contract has a period of performance of five years and a maximum […]
