The U.S. Coast Guard has completed its transition to a new integrated system for financial, procurement and asset management. The milestone makes USCG the third Department of Homeland Security component to transition to the Financial System Modernization Solution. The Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office and the Transportation Security Administration completed their transitions in October […]
The General Services Administration is seeking feedback on a plan to transfer .gov website management to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The interim rule took effect Monday. According to a GSA notice, the .gov domains should always be available and protected because millions of users rely on the thousands of services that the government […]
The Coast Guard recently adopted a new version of its integrated financial, procurement and asset management system to take much of the burden off clerical work. The new management system, dubbed the Financial System Modernization Solution, emphasizes security, data integrity and more accurate, transparent financial reporting, FedScoop reported Friday. Stacy Marcott, the Department of Homeland […]
Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has reiterated the agency’s commitment to driving technological progress in the transportation sector. “Transportation and technology have always gone together,” Buttigieg said remotely on the second day of the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The secretary highlighted the department’s work in overseeing the development of autonomous vehicles, research in new […]
The U.S. Forest Service has partnered with chemical and biological analysis device manufacturer 908 Devices to integrate additional capabilities into an existing handheld spectrometer. Under the collaborative research effort, the two entities will use the MX908 handheld, battery-powered spectrometer to look for marijuana fields on federal lands. The Forest Service and 908 Devices will add […]
President Joe Biden has renominated Ed Gonzalez for the role of director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Biden first selected Gonzalez for the role in April 2021. The nomination expired at the end of the year because the Senate did not vote on the matter, Homeland Security Today reported Thursday. If confirmed for the role, […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $35 million in funding for small businesses working to develop clean energy and climate solutions. DOE said the funding will be distributed among 158 projects across 29 states. The projects are expected to advance technologies such as climate research tools and enhanced batteries for electric vehicles, DOE said Thursday. […]
Small businesses Aquia and RevaComm will team up on a five-year contract to support the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Continuous Authorization and Verification Engine initiative, otherwise known as batCAVE. Modeled after the U.S. Air Force’s Platform One, batCAVE was launched to transform security approaches to software development. CMS Chief Information Security Officer Robert […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Office of Central Processing is seeking machine learning solutions to translate weather forecasts into Spanish and other languages. Currently, NOAA manually translates announcements from the National Hurricane Center Atlantic into Spanish through the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office San Juan, according to a request for information posted on […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has awarded New Light Technologies a five-year contract to support the Center for Domestic Preparedness. Under the contract, NLT will deploy and integrate new web-based mapping, geospatial and analytics capabilities to improve training and exercises delivery at CDP. The company will also develop and host a cloud-based platform to provide […]
