Ping Identity, a developer of intelligent identity technology, has announced the availability of its offerings on the Amazon Web Services Marketplace through Carahsoft. According to the company, a spot on the cloud-based platform will make its products more easily accessible and cost-effective for government agencies. Customers will also benefit from conveniences such as a simplified […]
Knightscope, a Silicon Valley-based maker of physical security robots, has received an In Process rating under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP is a government-wide program that provides cybersecurity ratings for cloud-based products and services offered to federal agencies. It also promotes the adoption of secure cloud technologies across the government, Knightscope said […]
The U.S. Air Force is planning to create new hardware and software business models to allow the service to pair autonomous solutions with crewed aircraft for combat operations. The business models are expected to be interoperable across different components across the Next-Generation Air Dominance program. NGAD aims to develop a sixth-generation stealth aircraft, autonomous drones […]
Ann Johnson, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of security, compliance and identity, on Thursday announced that her company has partnered with Tenable to improve the United State’s cybersecurity posture. She said that the partnership grew out of a common desire to support President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity issued in May 2021, Nextgov reported Tuesday. […]
The Alliance for Digital Innovation, a technology trade group, has asked Congress appropriators to boost the Technology Modernization Fund as part of fiscal year 2023 budget. TMF is a government-wide funding vehicle managed by the General Services Administration. Congress authorized it in 2017 to give agencies ways to finance their modernization efforts, according to GSA’s […]
BAE Systems has deployed its flight planning application to Cloud One, the U.S. Air Force’s offering that provides computing platforms, technologies and solutions. The Mobility Air Forces Automated Flight Planning Service is a solution that generates optimized and fuel-efficient flight plans that adhere to modern aviation regulations. The planning software, which is currently fielded for […]
Colorado-headquartered Intermap Technologies announced that it has been awarded a Multiple Award Schedule contract by the General Services Administration, paving the way for the Department of Defense, federal civilian agencies, and state and local governments to purchase its offerings. The award provides agencies with easy access to timely 3D elevation products, source agnostic processing services […]
The Department of Defense’s new Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has met its deadline of achieving full operating capability by June 1. According to a CDAO spokesperson, the office has also finished merging the organizations of the DOD chief information officer, Defense Digital Service, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center and the Advana big data platform, […]
The Department of the Interior is preparing a contract that would give a single cloud service provider up to $1 billion to move the department’s components to a streamlined hybrid cloud environment. According to a draft solicitation issued by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Cloud Hosting Services III indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will allow the Interior Department […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has adopted a new platform designed to improve how its subsidiaries share data among each other, an official said. Dan Jernigan, the CDC’s deputy director for public health science and surveillance, said that the agency’s Enterprise Data Analytics and Visualization platform allows scientists to better manage data and […]
