The General Services Administration and Office of Management and Budget have appointed government and industry representatives to the Federal Secure Cloud Advisory Committee, a new group tasked with guiding the secure adoption of cloud computing capabilities. The initiative stems from Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program reforms incorporated into the fiscal year 2023 defense budget. […]
The Department of the Interior wants to use drones to help agencies across the United States respond to emergencies. According to the department, unmanned aerial systems can be called on a moment’s notice and could help emergency responders operate in austere conditions. The department seeks UAVs with vertical take-off and landing capabilities, electro-optical and infrared […]
Colleen Shogan will begin her tenure next week as head of the National Archives and Records Administration following her confirmation by the Senate via a vote of 52 to 45. Shogan, who was a senior vice president of the White House Historical Association, was nominated by President Joe Biden on Aug. 3, 2022, for the […]
The National Science Foundation has awarded over $43 million in grants to 44 teams helping communities create economic, societal and technological opportunities for their communities. Under the NSF Regional Innovations Engines program, the NSF awarded recipients around $1 million each for two years. The recipients are working on various challenge areas, including artificial intelligence, high-performance […]
Carahsoft Technology will serve as the government vendor for New York-based data encryption firm Qrypt as part of a new partnership. Qrypt offers Quantum Security Suite, a solution targeted at attacks that take a “harvest now, decrypt later” approach, which involves malicious actors collecting secure data to be processed by a capable computer at a […]
The Government Accountability Office says in a report released on May 10 that the Department of Transportation and the Office of Personnel Management have yet to implement prior recommendations regarding the modernization of their legacy IT systems. In 2019, the GAO flagged eight government agencies either for having incomplete plans to modernize the critical legacy […]
The Department of Energy has allocated around $40 million to 15 projects designed to develop high-performance cooling solutions for data centers located at national laboratories, universities and businesses. Seven companies, seven universities and one national laboratory secured millions in funding to pursue their projects. The largest slice of funding was awarded to computer hardware company […]
A new bot will automate customer and vendor invoice payments and budget line item updates at all 56 field offices of the FBI. The technology is meant to save time and reduce manual labor for the roughly 250 workers handling such financial processes. Peter Sursi, the head of finance modernization, accounts payable and relocation services, […]
The National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center has extended the Chief Information Officer – Solutions and Partnerships 3‘s task order performance period by six months to allow more time to process 119 complaints against CIO-SP4, a 10-year follow-on worth $50 billion. CIO-SP3 is a government-wide acquisition contract for commercial and non-commercial […]
The General Services Administration gathered industry representatives, academics and senior government leaders in a virtual summit to discuss opportunities that high-performance computing brings to various industries. Over 400 individuals participated in the April 20 event co-hosted with the CIO Council and the Information Technology Industry Council to share and learn how HPC benefits federal organizations […]
