The Department of State has made several updates to its draft request for proposal for the EVOLVE indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The agency lifted oral presentation and corporate certification requirements for service offerings and revised certain evaluation criteria, among various other changes. The issuance of a formal RFP is scheduled to occur sometime within the current fiscal […]
CirrusMD is expanding the VA Health Chat app to provide more veterans with the capability to connect with Department of Veterans Affairs-accredited clinicians. The company delivered the virtual care platform to the VA under an agreement with Iron Bow Technologies, which holds a prime contract with the agency. Three new Veterans Integrated Service Networks will […]
The Department of Energy will discuss supercomputing technologies and National Laboratories’ expertise during the International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis event in Dallas. During SC22, experts from DOE’s national laboratories will hold tutorials, present technical papers, participate in workshops and join panel discussions. The department will also showcase research efforts happening at […]
Lauretta AI has secured a $198,000 award from the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate to develop an artificial intelligence solution that can automatically detect anomalies in soft target locations, including schools, sports venues, transportation systems and shopping venues. The phase 1 other transaction award was issued under the Silicon Valley Innovation Program […]
The first phase of a U.K.-U.S. competition for privacy-enhancing technologies has seen 12 white papers chosen out of 76 entries, with a total of $157,000 distributed among the winners. Participants are competing for funding sourced from a $1.6 million prize pool to develop a way to train artificial intelligence models on sensitive data without revealing […]
President Joe Biden plans to nominate Danny Werfel as the commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service. Werfel is currently a managing director and partner at Boston Consulting Group. He oversees BCG’s federal and public sector teams and works with governments worldwide to identify key opportunities. Werfel was the acting IRS commissioner from May to December […]
The General Services Administration has released new beta versions of the USA .gov website and its Spanish counterpart as part of efforts to improve customer experience. Leilani Martinez, acting director of GSA’s public experience portfolio, said GSA noted how and why individuals access the websites and used the information to build the pages from scratch. […]
Raytheon Intelligence & Space will participate in the Federal Aviation Administration’s Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Traffic Management Field Test, which aims to gather data to inform new policies and update industry standards for drones to enable safe beyond-visual-line-of-sight operations at low altitudes. RI&S will collaborate with the Virginia Tech Mid-Atlantic Aviation Partnership and the Lone Star UAS […]
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality has awarded VMD a five-year, $22 million contract to support fuel compliance verification platforms such as the electronic Transactions, Registration, Reporting and Access information technology ecosystem. Specifically, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company will assist with DevSecOps practices and provide cloud computing, data analytics, robotic process automation […]
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has extended its partnership with IDEMIA for biometrics services with an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that could run through 2027. The cybersecurity solutions provider is tasked with replacing Livescan fingerprint scanners at USCIS facilities and installing document authentication technology and check-in kiosks. The deal also stipulates operations and maintenance support, IDEMIA said […]
