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 […]
ICF, a strategic consulting company, has entered into a partnership with Google Cloud to pursue work in the public sector. According to ICF, the partnership is a testament to its past success in using Google Cloud’s technology to serve federal health clients, including the National Cancer Institute. The new collaboration will blend technology consulting expertise […]
The Technology Modernization Fund should improve its scrutiny of the modernization projects for which it grants funding, a government watchdog said. TMF is a government-wide program managed by the General Services Administration aimed at funding technology projects proposed by agencies, with the goal of reimbursing the program within five years. According to the Government Accountability […]
SailPoint Technologies has secured an In Process designation from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its software-as-a-service identity security platform. The SaaS offering uses an agile, intelligent and always-on approach to meet federal agencies’ identity security requirements. If the solution receives a full FedRAMP authorization, it will provide agencies and other organizations with […]
The Technology Modernization Fund‘s board of directors promised lawmakers that they would distribute among agencies needing money for modernization projects the more than $750 million remaining in its budget by the end of 2022. TMB officials made this assurance after lawmakers criticized them for being too slow in releasing money amid requests by agencies seeking […]
The Department of Defense’s chief information officer said that the legacy desktop hardware being used by personnel in certain highly classified work will soon be retired in favor of a new virtual, cloud-based desktop solution. John Sherman revealed that the new desktop solution for use in secret assignments is being called Compartmentalized Enterprise Desktop, FCW […]
