As head of Maximus‘ federal services business, Tom Romeo oversees an approximate $500 million portfolio of work for the federal government in areas such as health program support and business process services to agencies for the facilitation of a process the company calls the “Citizen Journey.” The company views the Citizen Journey as one that contains new expectations […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is looking for industry partners to help create and demonstrate a standards-based reference technology design for the protection of wireless medical infusion pumps against cyber threats. NIST said Thursday its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence seeks modules for an end-to-end sample platform intended to help healthcare organizations and clinicians avoid unauthorized access and unintended […] More

A new Accenture survey of U.S. citizens indicates an increase in demand for digital platforms to facilitate their interactions with government and access to public services. The company said Tuesday 86 percent of respondents seek increased digital interactions as 92 percent stated improvements in the deployment of digital services would have a positive effect on their view of government. Accenture surveyed 6,624 […] More

Accenture has been selected to update the U.S. Census Bureau’s digital services in order to help users gain access to information via the Census.gov website. Accenture Federal Services will provide tools for the Census Bureau’s work to transform digital communications, data dissemination and customer interactions, Accenture said Tuesday. The contract contains a one-year base period […] More

An IBM subsidiary has been awarded a five-year contract from the U.S. Peace Corps to provide a cloud-based technology for the agency to recruit and engage volunteers. Kenexa will help the Peace Corps implement IBM’s recruitment and talent management platform that is designed to run on a SoftLayer cloud infrastructure designed for government organizations, IBM said Thursday. […] More

Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have carried out an endurance flight test with an unmanned helicopter at Naval Base Venture County in Point Mugu, California. The company said Tuesday the MQ-8C Fire Scout system flew for 11 hours with more than an hour in fuel reserve. “Endurance flights provide a full evaluation of the MQ-8C Fire Scout […] More

Wes Anderson serves as vice president of worldwide public sector services at Microsoft and leads a team that offers information technology services to U.S. and international government agencies. Anderson, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, previously held the VP title for U.S. public sector services at Microsoft and also created and led the […] More

The U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center is looking into commercial software and related service offerings to supplement the military branch’s mobile health information technology infrastructure. In a request for information published June 9 on FedBizOpps, the Army said its Mobile Health Care Environment System is designed to employ government and commercial off-the-shelf […] More

Lockheed Martin has estimated the usage of National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s software testing tool for product development programs could help reduce costs for test planning and design by up to 20 percent. NIST said Wednesday the company conducted a two-year study of the Advanced Combinatorial Testing System as part of a cooperative research and development agreement […] More

A subsidiary of NIC Inc. in Arkansas has introduced a government application for Apple Watch. The Gov2Go app from NIC’s Arkansas Information Consortium LLC works like a personal digital assistant to remind users about deadlines of car registration tag renewal, property tax payments and other government-related events, NIC said Thursday. “Since the founding of our […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps is examining land-based robotic technologies in order to help infantry soldiers with their patrolling, explosive disposal and combat missions, Defense Systems reported Tuesday. David Walsh writes the military service is working to modify a QinetiQ North America-designed unmanned ground vehicle as part of the branch’s Combat Robotics System development program. “We started CRS […] More

Teresa Bozzelli leads Sapient‘s U.S. public sector arm — Sapient Government Services — as president and brings a 20-year background in technology and strategy to her role at the company. Her career includes time at IDC Government Insights, an organization she founded and served as chief operating officer for, and as a vice president at Booz Allen […] More