Kurt DelBene, the Department of Veterans Affairs chief information officer, said that the agency plans to onboard 1,000 new employees to its Office of Information and Technology. During a press event Friday, he specified that some of the new hires will be product managers tasked with handling the implementation of Oracle Cerner’s Millennium program. According […]
The first three security solutions providers under the Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator have started technical assessments of their authentication solutions for distributed energy resources. The technical assessment phase will see Blue Ridge Networks, Sierra Nevada Corp. and Xage participate in a six-month acceleration period where their solutions will be evaluated in the Advanced Research on […]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded Palantir Technologies a five-year, $443 million contract to support the Common Operating Picture initiative, an interagency project aimed at promoting collaboration between government health organizations and industry partners. The deal calls for the merging of Palantir platforms such as Health and Human Services Protect and Administration […]
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is planning to update critical infrastructure protection standards amid increasing attacks on the software supply chains of electric utilities and other energy-sector entities. At a technical conference on Wednesday, FERC Chair Richard Glick solicited comments from the industry on the potential CIP standard changes. Currently, regulated entities can formulate their […]
Noblis has awarded a subcontract to Aquia to support an existing four-year deal with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by developing a software-as-a-service governance program. The service-disabled, veteran-owned small business based in Millsboro, Delaware, will also apply a review process to evaluate the security risks of SaaS applications. Specific tasks include the automation […]
IT modernization and the adoption of emerging technologies are among the top priorities of the Department of State to counter China’s and Russia’s disinformation campaigns and achieve data-informed diplomacy. During an event hosted by The Atlantic Council, Ambassador Dereck Hogan, the principal deputy assistant secretary in the department’s Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, said […]
The Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate has launched a new initiative designed to create secure and easy-to-use identity validation technologies. The Remote Identity Validation Technology Demonstration challenge will require participating organizations from the private industry to deliver secure, accurate and easy-to-use remote technologies to combat identity fraud in a variety of contexts […]
The Government Accountability Office has determined that the Department of Veterans Affairs directed a portion of the $36.7 billion in COVID-19 relief funds it received from three pieces of legislation toward veterans’ health care, digital operations and information technology services. In a report published Tuesday, the watchdog said the money was used to improve telehealth […]
The National Nuclear Security Administration has launched a new effort to improve future nuclear arms control arrangements and is seeking input from industry members about potential technologies. Jill Hruby, the administrator of the NNSA and the undersecretary of energy for nuclear security, said in an online interview with the Advanced Nuclear Weapons Alliance that new […]
Several companies and organizations, including Intel, Microsoft, Micron and Synopsys, have committed to reducing the energy consumption of microelectronics under a partnership with the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and five other national laboratories. As part of the agreement, the partner companies pledged to increase the energy efficiency of microelectronics every two years for […]
