Cobalt Solutions has received a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Department of Homeland Security for the development of a system capable of detecting and tracking small unmanned aerial vehicles in urban canyon environments. The company’s Urban Canyon Detection Tracking and Identification of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles solution is expected to […]
The Internal Revenue Service and the Office of Management and Budget have selected DRT Strategies to support the government’s Frictionless Acquisition effort. DRT Strategies was named the final winner of the Labor/Wage Data Mashing contract, which has three phases. The winning solution, dubbed DRT FairPrice+, was designed to provide acquisition professionals in the government with […]
Sandia National Laboratories, together with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, has come up with a new design for radiation portal monitors in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s initiative to replace aging radiation detection systems at ports across the country. The plan is to retire over 1,400 monitors deployed at land crossings, rail crossings, […]
A centralized resource for COVID-19 data initiated by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has played a key role in advancing research to combat the ongoing global pandemic. The National COVID Cohort Collaborative Data Enclave consolidates patient electronic health records and other clinical information related to COVID-19 from various institutions, […]
The Department of Energy is providing a total of $16 million for five research projects aimed at developing artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms that will enable scientific insights and discoveries using data produced by computation simulations, experiments and observations. The projects will produce capabilities for a broad range of scientific needs, including forecasts for […]
REI Systems has secured a five-year, $250 million contract to enhance the Electronic Handbooks system used by the Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services Administration. The HRSA’s existing EHB system is used by officials to manage annual grants of more than $12 billion. With EHBs, users are able to efficiently carry […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded the End User Support Services Tier II contract to At-Impact to provide onsite and remote information technology support for the Client Experience Center, which is under the agency’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. At-Impact is a joint venture between NetImpact Strategies, which provides IT consulting services to […]
The Department of Commerce has created a high-level committee tasked with advising the president and federal agencies on matters related to artificial intelligence. The government is currently recruiting candidates for the new National AI Advisory Committee, which will work with the National AI Initiative Office within the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, […]
Raylene Yung has taken on a new role as executive director of the Technology Modernization Fund, which is overseen by the General Services Administration. Yung has held several technology-related positions in the nonprofit, private and public sectors. From November 2020 to January 2021, she served on the Biden-Harris transition team with a focus on technology […]
The Office of Management and Budget has released a draft federal strategy on the government’s effort to transition to zero trust. The National Institute of Standards and Technology defines zero trust as a security architecture that does not automatically trust a user based solely on its physical or network location or asset ownership. Zero trust […]
