Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia has been appointed as the U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s chief information officer. He formally took over the CIO post in mid-February after serving as a temporary replacement for Phil Landfried who retired in June. As the CBP’s lead technology executive, he will be tasked with repaying the $15 million loan CBP […]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection has issued a privacy impact assessment to address privacy issues concerning a new public-facing mobile application called CBP One. The app was launched late last year to provide travelers, brokers, carriers, forwarders and international organizations a single portal where they can access a variety of CBP services. According to the […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded SBG Technology Solutions the five-year option period under the $22.3 billion Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation contract vehicle. SBG is a T4NG prime contractor. T4NG is a 10-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a five-year base period and a five-year option period, SBG said Tuesday. Carlos Del Toro, SBG’s […]
President Joe Biden has selected Jake Braun, founding partner and former CEO of Cambridge Global Advisors, to serve as senior adviser to the Department of Homeland Security Management Directorate. Braun will share his expertise with a directorate tasked with handling budgets, appropriations, expenditure of funds, accounting and finance, procurement, human resources and personnel, and information […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has publicly released resources designed to protect against Global Navigation Satellite System spoofing. The Positioning, Navigation and Timing Integrity Library and the Epsilon Algorithm Suite were designed to boost the resilience of PNT systems and other critical infrastructure from disruptions, DHS said. “Since GPS signals can […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs has set up a custom, hospital-based 5G installation at the Miami Veterans Affairs Healthcare System courtesy of T-Mobile. 5G coverage provided by the telecommunications company enables the facility to take advantage of speeds said to be 7.5 times faster than contemporary LTE. According to T-Mobile, medical teams at the Miami-based […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ Veterans Benefits Administration has issued a request for quotations for program support services. According to the RFQ released on Feb. 26, the VBA plans to award up to three indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contracts in support of its 56 claims processing offices, which deliver monthly payments to veterans with disabilities and […]
Jennifer Granholm has been formally sworn in as the 16th secretary of the Department of Energy, making her the second woman to hold the position. Granholm was sworn in as energy secretary by Vice President Kamala Harris after a bipartisan 64-35 confirmation vote in the Senate. Following her appointment, she released a video message and […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has turned to machine learning techniques to streamline the assignment of patent applications to examiners, according to a top official at the office. USPTO Chief Information Officer Jamie Holcombe said the agency asked Google to train its top engineers on machine learning and TensorFlow application programming interfaces, FedScoop reported […]
The Department of Energy has awarded $46 million in funding to 17 carbon-free geothermal projects with the potential to supply power to homes in the United States. The funding was awarded through the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy Initiative at the University of Utah, the Department of Energy said Wednesday. “There is enormous […]
