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 […]
Telecommunications company CallTower and its federal market partner, Team Consulting Inc., have secured a spot on the General Services Administration Schedule. The GSA Schedule is a government-wide contract intended to simplify agencies’ procurement of commercial products and services, CallTower said Tuesday. Using the long-term contract, CallTower’s potential government customers can save time by using the […]
The Department of Health and Human Services‘ top official announced the launch of a $90 million initiative to supply health centers with the necessary data for reducing health disparities using remaining American Rescue Plan Act funds. HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said the initiative, dubbed Uniform Data System Patient-Level Submission, pays for efforts to gather more […]
Palantir Technologies has secured a contract extension and expansion from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to apply its outbreak response and disease surveillance solution to more respiratory diseases. Under the renewed contract, Palantir will continue to modernize the Data Collation and Integration for Public Health Event Response environment to give the CDC the […]
LinQuest, a provider of digital solutions to the national security community, announced its participation in the inaugural Department of the Air Force Modeling and Simulation Summit. During the event at Eglin Air Force Base, government contractors delivered presentations on topics such as model-based systems engineering, military campaign analysis and adaptive learning, LinQuest said. Eric Spittle, […]
Information technology services and consulting firm GRSi announced that it has been awarded a four-year contract to provide support to the United States Marine Corps‘ Technical Control Analysis Center Family of Systems. The deal was awarded by Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic after a full and open competition, GRSi said Thursday. In a statement, GRSi […]
