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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published draft guidance to help government agencies securely transition to Internet Protocol version 6.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 […]
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $29.9 million task order that calls for research support services for the National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology. Work under the task will help enhance NCI’s Clinical Trials Reporting Program as the go-to information source for cancer-related clinical trials, facilitate data access across the cancer […]
Brillient, a modernization solutions provider, has been awarded a contract to support the Internal Revenue Service’s digital transformation efforts. The Enterprise Digitalization and Case Management Office Scanning as a Service contract is a multi-phased deal that encompasses a range of digitalization services, Brillient said Monday. Ed Burrows, vice president of intelligent solutions at Brillient, said […]
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service plans to transition to electronic payments by 2030. The bureau’s commissioner, Tim Gribben, said in an interview that the agency made significant progress in making digital payments in the last decade, but that effort has to continue. His comments come as the organization continues to distribute COVID-19 stimulus payments […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology should account for the possibility of a global catastrophe caused by artificial intelligence, according to a research team from the University of California, Berkeley. UC Berkeley issued the warning in an evidence paper responding to NIST’s draft framework on the adoption of AI across the federal government, FedScoop […]
Ted Kaouk, the chief data officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will leave his post to serve as CDO of the Office of Personnel Management. He will also serve as OPM’s deputy director for human capital data management and modernization starting sometime in October, Federal News Network reported. During his tenure at USDA, Kaouk […]
