The Department of Defense continues to grapple with software acquisition despite adopting six new acquisition pathways in 2020 to ensure officials have access to the tools they need. Cara Abercrombie, assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, said the Pentagon plans to address the issue by sending a team of experts to expedite the adoption of […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted cloud-native software company Mark43 High impact level authorization. The authorization, made possible through the agency sponsorship of the U.S. Secret Service, ensures that public safety agency partners can avail of the highly resilient platform, Mark43 said. In October, the company also secured State Risk and Authorization […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency plans to put its new DOD Olympus cloud service management platform under beta test in the third quarter of 2024. Korie Seville, DISA’s deputy chief technology officer for compute, said the testing phase will be extended until the agency figures out the funding and customer charge models for the service. […]
The U.S. Army has tapped Science Applications International Corp. to modernize its signals intelligence and electronic warfare systems under a $232 million contract. Josh Jackson, executive vice president of the Army Business Group at SAIC, said the company is committed to continuing its support for the service branch in fulfilling its mission, especially those involving […]
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a seven-year blanket purchase agreement worth up to $431 million to provide artificial intelligence and machine learning expertise. The Scientific Modeling, Application, Visualization, Computational Science, Software and Statistical Support blanket purchase agreement will see the company supplementing the EPA’s Office of Research and Development’s mission to […]
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded AvaWatz a contract to access the company’s Genie advanced data label generation platform for training high-accuracy machine learning models. According to Rajini Anachi, CEO of AvaWatz, Genie can support the agency’s mission-critical use cases requiring high-performance artificial intelligence. The platform features a suite of solutions to enhance the […]
A team at the Defense Contract Management Agency has transitioned to the new Contract Administration Management System, automating the analysis of contractor on-time delivery data. Craig Morgan, chief digital and artificial intelligence officer at DCMA, said that with the addition of on-time delivery information and contractor effectiveness capabilities to CAMS, the agency gains flexibility and […]
Groq announced that it has entered into a partnership with Carahsoft Technology to offer rapid artificial intelligence inference capabilities to government customers. Carahsoft President Craig P. Abod, a 2024 Wash100 winner, said that the collaboration enables public agencies to be early adopters of AI while customizing the technology according to their daily operations. Available through […]
Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux platform will be the operating system for El Capitan, the National Nuclear Security Administration’s first exascale supercomputer. Located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, El Capitan will be used to ensure the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile and aid in scientific research in climate science, computational biology, high energy-density […]
New York City-based blockchain intelligence company Chainalysis Government Solutions announced that its Crypto Investigations solution has received an in-process designation from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. An offering of the company’s Chainalysis Government Solutions, the platform is designed for law enforcers, including intelligence, tax and regulatory agents, to uncover leads, assess illicit activities, […]
