Clare Martorana, the federal chief information officer and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner, said accelerating IT modernization and improving customer experience are among her top priorities for 2023. In an interview with Federal News Network, Martorana highlighted the importance of strengthening the collaboration with the IT community and maximizing the impact of each IT investment […]
Reggie Cummings, the deputy chief information officer of infrastructure operations at the Department of Veterans Affairs, spoke with GovCIO Media and Research about an ongoing shift toward an infrastructure-operations-as-a-service model aimed at reducing downtime and streamlining services. He explained that the framework encompasses customer-centric service, bimodal operations and continuous communication. According to Cummings, his team’s […]
The Transportation Security Administration has selected Peraton to enhance the agency’s IT equipment, services and processes and provide support to TSA employees, contractors and personnel deployed at various locations. Work will be performed under a five-year, $342.7 million Information Technology Management, Performance Analysis and Collaborative Technologies II contract awarded to Peraton subsidiary Perspecta Enterprise Solutions. […]
The Senate has confirmed Evelyn Wang as director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, where she will lead funding and commercialization efforts for early-stage energy research that could affect generation, storage and use. She was most recently the head of the mechanical engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has […]
The national coordinator for health IT said multiple applicants are expected to have fully operational information networks for sharing clinical data in 2023. Speaking at eHealth Exchange’s annual meeting on Dec. 15, Micky Tripathi said he heard details about some prospective organizations building new platforms in anticipation of being approved as a QHIN. According to […]
AIM Photonics and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will work together to provide engineers with a tool for designing chips that can transmit information faster. The chips, called integrated photonic circuits, are used in fiber-optic networks and in technologies such as laser-guided missiles and medical sensors. Under a cooperative research and development agreement, […]
Two senators are urging the National Science Foundation to require encryption for sensitive data that would be shared through a new platform. In a letter addressed to NSF Director Sethuraman Panchanathan, Sens. Ron Wyden and Rob Portman said encryption will ensure that data shared through the National Secure Data Service would not be accessed by […]
Mythics will provide Oracle infrastructure hosting support to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s cloud platform under a five-year blanket purchase agreement. The Virginia-based vendor of Oracle products has worked with Department of Homeland Security component agencies since 2004. According to Matt Perron, vice president of sales, the award adds to “growing confidence” in the Gen […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has retired a cryptographic algorithm that was used for security applications such as website validation. Secure Hash Algorithm 1 became part of the Federal Information Processing Standard in 1995 and remained active despite the emergence of more sophisticated threats from more powerful computers. It works by performing complex […]
The General Services Administration is looking to provide the departments of Justice and Homeland Security two more years to transition to the $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, a pathway for federal agencies to move away from old telecommunications service deals. According to a Friday blog post, GSA decided to grant requests by the two […]
