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 […]
The Food and Drug Administration has combined its information technology, data management and cybersecurity portfolios under the newly launched Office of Digital Transformation. Vid Desai, who previously served as chief technology officer and acting chief information officer of the FDA, was appointed CIO to lead the new division. In a LinkedIn post, Desai said that […]
Attivo Networks’ ThreatDefend Platform has been included in the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Approved Products List of the Department of Homeland Security. Developed in 2012, the CDM program aims to provide risk-based, consistent and cost-effective cybersecurity solutions to protect all federal civilian networks. CDM tools and services help agencies reduce their threat surface, increase visibility […]
Global Systems Technologies, a security engineering company, has secured a $300 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement to provide test and evaluation services to the Department of Homeland Security. The company said it will serve as an independent test agent for the department’s major acquisition programs. The program portfolio covers security, detection, communications and other systems […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate is seeking solutions for the 2022 First Responder Electronic Jamming Exercise. The event will be held next year at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico from April 25 to 29. Industry, academia and federal organizations with anti-jamming technologies ready for testing and evaluation are invited […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs is developing augmented reality technology that will allow physicians “X-ray vision” during operations. Thomas Osborne, director of VA’s National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation, said the goal is to help doctors perform safer procedures by using AR headsets to superimpose medical imaging on patients, FedScoop reported Thursday. He said doctors […]
