Excella has secured several 12-month agreements worth over $13 million to continue supporting the Office of Personnel Management. Excella, in partnership with the National Technical Information Service, will help the agency mature its data visualization, infrastructure, skills, standards and stewardship programs by working with the Data Governance Board and the Human Capital Data Management and […]
The National Archives and Records Administration said it will address issues in its new electronic records management system and will make it available to more users by mid-September. U.S. Chief Records Officer Laurence Brewer said in a memorandum to federal records management offices that agencies have been using the Electronic Record Archive 2.0 system since […]
Guy Cavallo, the Office of Personnel Management’s chief information officer, explained that his organization’s new information technology strategy is intended to reconcile its development pace and legacy technology debt. Released in May, OPM’s IT plan for fiscal years 2023 to 2026 is the first to be released since 2014. According to the plan, OPM’s legacy […]
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced on Tuesday $20 million in total grants to 49 state and territory international trade agencies under the 2023 State Trade Expansion Program. State government entities and nonprofit organizations at the local level manage each of the awardees, which were chosen via a competitive application process. According to agency chief […]
The Los Alamos National Laboratory and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have installed the Crossroads supercomputer at the laboratory’s Strategic Computing Complex. Irene Qualters, associate director for simulation and computation at LANL, said Crossroads will deliver up to eight times better performance than the Trinity supercomputer, which has been at the lab since 2015. The National Nuclear […]
Douglas Robertson has assumed the position of chief technology officer at the Small Business Administration, where he is tasked with forming an organizational strategy, establishing security programs and utilizing new capabilities to improve programming and performance within operations. In a statement to Nextgov/FCW, the SBA explained that Robertson is part of the chief information office […]
The Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research is planning to develop applications that will allow U.S. diplomats to access unclassified, open-source intelligence using their mobile devices, including publications related to foreign governments and blog posts of senior public officials in other countries. The INR has existing partnerships with national security companies to identify […]
Octo Metric JV, a joint venture between Octo and Metric5, has won a five-year, $29 million contract to provide IT transformation services to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of IT. Octo will deliver continuous learning and transformation support, training and hands-on coaching to CMS personnel. Deliverables will focus on transparency, business agility, […]
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded 15 companies a combined $15 million in Small Business Innovation Research phase two contracts to prototype mission-relevant capabilities over two years. DHS’ SBIR program, managed by the Science and Technology Directorate, allocated roughly $1 million to each awardee. Dimitri Kusnezov, DHS undersecretary for science and technology, said the […]
D-Fend Solutions announced on Thursday that the Federal Aviation Administration has chosen its EnforceAir counter-drone solution to participate in the Airport UAS Detection and Mitigation Research Program. According to D-Fend Solutions, EnforceAir is the first radio frequency-cyber-based system participating in the program. The system is designed for 360-degree and long-range directional protection without collateral effect […]
