The Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services has selected 25 entities to demonstrate artificial intelligence concepts as part of a competition aimed at developing AI capabilities that forecast patients’ health outcomes.

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Darrell McGraw, former federal director of technology enablement and program delivery services at KPMG, has joined Falls Church, Va.-based information technology and management consulting firm NetImpact Strategies as vice president.

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Gus Hunt, cybersecurity strategy lead for Accenture's federal business, has said a managed service offering provides government agencies the information technology tools and expertise that can help detect and respond to security threats.

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The General Services Administration selected the Office of Personnel Management as the third agency that will undergo information technology modernization as part of the former's Centers of Excellence program, Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.

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Doug VanDyke, former general manager of federal civilian and nonprofits at Amazon, has been appointed as new chief executive officer at McLean, Va.-based information technology firm Enquizit, G2Xchange ETC reported Monday.

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Diane Ashley, a former business development executive at Accenture, has been appointed senior vice president of the homeland security sector at Tysons Corner, Va.-based information technology and management consulting services provider Strategic Enterprise Solutions.

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Glenn Davidson, former executive director of enterprise services at the Commerce Department, has joined the government and public services practice of Deloitte’s consulting business as human capital transformation executive. He will work with federal and state government clients to help them transform their agencies’ workforce strategy, human resource operations and employee experience, Deloitte said Monday. Sean Morris, […] More

Trey Theimer, vice president and account general manager for homeland security at Perspecta, has been appointed to the board of directors at the Homeland Security and Defense Business Council. She joins the board along with Brandon LaBonte, president and CEO of ArdentMC; and Martin Mackes, chief delivery officer of E3 Federal Solutions, the council said Thursday. All three appointees will serve […] More

Blue Prism has announced the availability of its robotic process automation software to federal agencies through the General Services Administration’s Information Technology Schedule 70 procurement vehicle. The company said Wednesday its technology employs artificial intelligence, machine learning, sentiment analysis and intelligent automation methods intended to help government customers automate business processes. Jim Fawcett, vice president of […] More

Cerner has formed an organization of private firms that will help perform a potential 10-year, $10B contract to modernize the Department of Veterans Affairs’ electronic health care record. The EHR modernization team will resume the health information technology company’s work in meeting the medical needs of veterans, Cerner said Wednesday. VA Secretary Robert Wilkie said the team […] More

A SAP Concur-led industry team has secured a $9.3M “other transaction” agreement to develop a technology platform for Defense Department employees to manage travel bookings. DoD said Thursday SAP Concur will collaborate with Accenture‘s federal services unit, Booz Allen Hamilton and CWTSato Travel to build a prototype for the Defense Travel System replacement effort. More than two million active duty, reserve and […] More

Five companies have won contracts worth up to $1M each from the U.S. Army to build a big data management platform designed to integrate and analyze information from various data sources and carry out forecasting and predictive analytics functions. The service posted the award notices Thursday in support of the two-phase Army Leader Dashboard program […] More