The General Services Administration is asking industry for help in determining whether it should pursue facial recognition technology for Login .gov, the government’s single sign-on service. In a new request for information published April 25, GSA said it wants to conduct a study on whether identity verification technologies, including facial recognition, can meet equity standards […]
The Department of Energy has issued a request for information for a potential $2.3 billion grant program aimed at modernizing the United States power grid. The department wants to ensure that the critical infrastructure will be safe from wildfires, extreme weather and other natural disasters. The program was established through President Joe Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs inspector general said the agency failed to comply with the Federal Acquisition Regulation at least once by paying Cerner for a task order even before work was performed. Under FAR, agencies must first accept the delivery of goods or services before paying contractors. According to the oversight body, the VA […]
ICF, a strategic consulting company, announced that it has been re-awarded a spot on a $94 million Federal Highway Administration blanket purchase agreement to improve U.S. transportation systems. The five-year, multiple-award BPA calls for technical services in support of next-generation multimodal transportation management systems, ICF said Tuesday. According to the company, it will support FHWA […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $504.4 million in conditional funding for a large-scale project to build a green hydrogen production and storage facility. DOE will award the funding to Advanced Clean Energy Storage I, Mitsubishi Power Americas, Magnum Development and Haddington Ventures. The debt financing would go to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage Project […]
Reggie Townsend, director of the data ethics practice at SAS, will serve on a high-level artificial intelligence government advisory committee. As a member of the National AI Advisory Committee, Townsend is now part of a team tasked with advising the president and the White House’s National AI Initiative Office, WRAL TechWire reported. The Department of […]
DLH Holdings has received a potential five-year, $14 million National Institute of Health contract renewal for epidemiologic and public health research support for the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. Under the contract, DLH will offer solutions that support epidemiological research and biostatistical consultation, data management, statistical programming, data analysis, cloud computing, […]
Fifteen universities will participate in a new Department of Energy competition focused on engineering new technologies for battery electric vehicles. DOE said the EcoCAR EV Challenge is aimed at advancing the Biden administration’s efforts to power the expansion of the U.S. automobile sector. EcoCAR EV has a combined investment of $6 million and will be […]
Steampunk, an information technology company, has secured a spot on a potential $2 billion U.S. Patent and Trademark Office contract for a broad range of modernization services. USPTO’s indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Business Oriented Software Solutions contract has a performance period of 10 years, Steampunk said Thursday. The BOSS contract is aimed at giving USPTO tools for delivering […]
IBM and software company Red Hat have been included in a five-year collaboration effort to modernize the Department of Education‘s G5 grants management system. The initiative is led by Innosoft Corp. Under the deal, Red Hat will provide technologies alongside Amazon Web Services while IBM will provide industry expertise. All companies will replace the current […]
