An official from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said facial biometrics technology has helped the agency process over 100 million travelers since its implementation. To date, CBP uses biometric facial comparison tech to process passengers at 230 airports and eight seaports. The platform is also used to confirm passenger identities at a pilot port […]
Verizon announced that it will be modernizing all of the Department of Labor‘s legacy telecommunications and IT services after having been awarded five Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions task orders with a combined worth of $887 million. Under the deal, the wireless network operator will develop a secure data and voice network at nearly 1,000 DOL offices. […]
Lumen Technologies has been awarded a task order to modernize the U.S. Postal Service‘s network services in support of more than 32,000 post offices and mail processing sites. The task order was administered through a new USPS multi-vendor, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle, Lumen said Tuesday. Zain Ahmed, senior vice president of Lumen’s public sector unit, said […]
The Department of State has published a three-year strategy to empower its workforce to make better use of data for diplomacy efforts. The enterprise data strategy highlights the department’s goal of cultivating a data-focused culture, accelerating decision making through analytics and achieving enhanced data governance, FedScoop reported. In order to actualize its vision of becoming […]
The Department of Energy has invested $27 million in advancing long-duration battery storage technology and in ensuring equitable access to energy storage. DOE earmarked $17.9 million for research and development projects aimed at expanding the manufacturing of flow battery and storage systems. Flow batteries are electrochemical batteries that use externally stored electrolytes, making them cheaper, […]
The Department of Homeland Security is launching a series of prize competitions in search of tools to combat climate change-related hazards faced by U.S. communities. A total of $195,000 will be allocated for winning technologies, which, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a 2021 Wash100 winner, hopes will increase the resilience of communities and help them address […]
Dell Technologies has secured the National Nuclear Security Administration‘s $40 million Commodity Technology Systems-2 contract for the delivery of expanded supercomputing capabilities at three national laboratories. Dell will provide over 40 petaflops of computing capacity at Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia national laboratories. The contract is funded by the NNSA’s Advanced Simulation and Computing […]
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $73 million to support public health information technology workforce development programs. The funding will be used to boost health IT, improve COVID-19 data collection and broaden the representation of underrepresented communities within the public health IT workforce. The funding is part of the Office of the […]
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is adopting an artificial intelligence-enabled risk management platform to automate the way it monitors grant spending. The Argus platform has yet to be deployed across the entire agency but Wilmer Graham, HUD’s chief risk officer, estimates that once it is fully implemented, time spent manually monitoring program grantees […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published draft guidance to help government agencies securely transition to Internet Protocol version 6. IPv4 uses the 32-bit format, which limits the maximum number of addresses to less than 4.3 billion. IPv6 offers a virtually limitless number of IP addresses. The pool of IPv4 addresses was exhausted in […]
