The 3M RevCycle health services platform is now available on the FedRAMP Marketplace after it was granted a fully authorized status under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The product provided by 3M’s Health Information Systems division allows users to access services, including natural language processing support for medical coding, clinical documentation integrity and […]
The public sector segment of Effectual has been accredited at Level 3 of ISACA’s Capability Maturity Model Integration standard, an outcome-based model intended to promote stronger performance, higher productivity, agile development and technology adoption. Effectual, an information technology services company headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, said its Level 3 status indicates that processes are clear, detailed […]
The Department of Defense must dramatically revamp its approach to software design and architecture to keep up with evolving warfighting needs, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank said in a report. In a report titled “Software-Defined Warfare,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies‘ Strategic Technologies Program said Pentagon systems must be able to support faster […]
Armaments Research Company has secured a contract extending work integrating its conditions-based maintenance platform with U.S. Marine Corps crew-served weapons as part of a five-year, $60 million Phase III Small Business Innovative Research deal with the Department of Defense and General Services Administration to contribute to the Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. The technology involves […]
NASA has posted a preliminary draft request for proposals for its Consolidated Applications and Platform Services contract, which unifies information technology requirements across various existing contracts at an estimated $2 billion. NCAPS is an Alliant 2 governmentwide acquisition contract with indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity task orders. The RFP follows a February announcement that the agency would support plans by its […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s Source Operations and Management Directorate is expanding its work with the private sector, a top official said. The Source Operations and Management Directorate is in charge of providing geospatial intelligence products and services to customers from the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. GEOINT is the use of imagery and […]
Fairfax, Virginia-based company ECS has secured a five-year, $53 million recompete contract to support the U.S. Transportation Command‘s Global Air Transportation Execution System. ECS will provide agile software development to sustain and enhance GATES operations worldwide. The company will also deliver help desk and engineering support and migrate additional capabilities to the cloud. GATES manages […]
The Indian Health Service has tapped General Dynamics Information Technology to provide full software development life cycle services for the Resource and Patient Management System. IHS awarded the company a five-year, $89 million software engineering support contract with a one-year base period and four option years. Requirements under the contract include project management, system deployment […]
The Social Security Administration’s Office of the Inspector General made several recommendations in a report published in late August to improve the agency’s agile software development approach. Gail Ennis, the SSA inspector general, said 12 initiatives were suggested in the audit, aimed at improving decision-making, boosting efficiency and fostering workforce effectiveness, FedScoop reported. According to Ennis, […]
Octo, a technology consultancy provider, announced that it has joined the Nvidia Partner Network to deliver better artificial intelligence products to federal government customers. As part of the collaboration, the computer graphics company will develop and support AI-powered services for Octo and its clients. Octo’s oLabs, a collaborative laboratory in Reston, Virginia, for prototyping federal […]
