Palantir Technologies, a big data analytics company, has secured a spot on a $90 million Department of Health and Human Services contract vehicle. HHS’ five-year Solutioning with Holistic Analytics Restructured for the Enterprise blanket purchase agreement is intended to improve the department’s access to best-value data solutions, Palantir said Wednesday. The company said that its […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded Sigma Defense company Solute a task order to continue working on its Surface Search Coordination Planner capability for two Navy program offices. Under the contract, Solute will continue to develop, deliver and demonstrate SSCP’s ability to test software code using a government-provided DevSecOPs pipeline toolset that is available on the […]
Multiple technology groups are urging lawmakers to invest at least $300 million in the Technology Modernization Fund for fiscal year 2023. The coalition also wants appropriators to add funding to help agencies improve their zero trust capabilities. The organization said in a letter sent to the heads of the House and Senate appropriations committees and […]
Palo Alto-headquartered software developer Mattermost announced that it has been awarded a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract through the Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX innovation arm. The latest award is a follow-on to a previous Phase I effort seeking the development of technologies to enhance collaboration among government agencies and departments, Mattermost said […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency is seeing early successes with its prototype-stage cloud computing program known as Stratus, an official has said. Stratus is the agency’s latest attempt at building a hybrid, on-premise cloud computing infrastructure. Sharon Woods, director of DISA’s Digital Hosting and Computing Center, said that the agency has already begun migrating applications […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has released a new strategy that is focused on changing how software delivery works within the agency. Under the plan, dubbed “The NGA Software Way,” the agency wants to deliver software similar to how it is done in the technology industry, where delivery is fast and consistent. The main points of […]
The Library of Congress‘ top officials told lawmakers Thursday that the library needs more money in its 2023 budget to pay for a cloud management program that supports operational needs. Speaking before the House Appropriations Committee, chief information officer Judith Conklin said the library has made “great progress” on its strategic information technology investments despite […]
Amazon Web Services is being re-awarded the National Security Agency‘s cloud computing contract after losing it in a legal protest filed by a losing competitor, an NSA spokesperson revealed. After being directed by the Government Accountability Office to reevaluate the offers of AWS and its primary rival, Microsoft, the NSA went ahead and gave the […]
The Department of Defense expects that the cloud-based Secret and Below Releasable Environment will reach initial operating capability in either the spring or summer of 2022. Danielle Metz, the deputy chief information officer for information enterprise at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense and a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, said during the AFCEA […]
Oak Ridge National Laboratory announced that its researchers, working with counterparts in the Department of Veterans Affairs, Harvard’s TH Chan School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have developed a novel, machine learning-based technique to explore and identify relationships among medical concepts. The new technique involves using electronic health record […]
