The Federal Emergency Management Agency has issued a request for information in search of support services to maintain and further develop its Web Emergency Operations Center Crisis Management System. Since its launch in 2012, the WebEOC CSM has been essential to FEMA’s disaster response and recovery efforts as it enables field communications all year round. […]
The General Services Administration has launched the revamped website of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. According to Ashley Mahan, acting assistant commissioner of GSA’s Technology Transformation Services, the new website clearly points visitors to where they are within the FedRAMP authorization process, unlike the previously content-heavy website, which made it difficult to find […]
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Excella a $23.9 million contract to expand its provision of data technology services. The five-year contract includes a $14.3 million base award. Excella will support the Office of Chief Data Officer within the HHS Office of the Inspector General in integrating disparate data sources, increasing accessibility […]
WEDI, a nonprofit organization specializing in health information technology guidance and a statutory adviser to the Department of Health and Human Services, has named Robert Tennant as its new vice president of federal affairs. In his new role, Tennant will support WEDI’s government affairs functions on regulatory and legislative matters, with emphasis on health IT issues. […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $100 million in funding for the development of clean energy technology in support of the Biden administration's climate agenda. The funding will be made available through the Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy's OPEN 2021 program, the Department of Energy announced Thursday. “Today we are inviting scientists, inventors, entrepreneurs and creative […]
The General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service posted record revenue for information technology products and services in 2020. Laura Stanton, assistant commissioner of the FAS Office of IT Category, credited the high figure to data transparency and the trust put in by other federal agencies, Federal News Network reported Thursday. Stanton said the IT category […]
The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the Department of Veterans Affairs delay the deployment of its new electronic health record system at planned locations. VA has not yet resolved all critical and high-severity test findings, whose fixes were called for in the department's testing plan, GAO said Thursday. Critical test findings are issues that […]
ThoughtWorks, a software company based in Chicago, Illinois, has partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs to launch a digital notifications tool for updating veterans of their benefits and other services. The tool, dubbed VANotify, enables VA business lines and development teams to send emails and texts, allowing them to confirm receipts of benefits applications […]
The General Services Administration's Technology Transformation Services has awarded Medallia and DLT Solutions a contract for a text analytics and natural language processing solution. The solution will let public-sector organizations collect and analyze social media, mobile, text files, chat transcripts and other data to extract insights for decision-making, Medallia said Monday. “Deploying Medallia’s text analytics […]
The Department of the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service has begun piloting an artificial intelligence algorithm designed to streamline the annual appropriations process. Without an AI tool, the bureau has to manually analyze the text of Congress' appropriation bills to determine which agencies get what amount of funding, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. Fiscal […]
