ICF has received from the Department of Health and Human Services extensions to a pair of contracts for the continuation of cloud migration and digital modernization work in support of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services systems. The contracts were awarded in late 2023 and are worth $50 million combined, the global consulting and technology services provider said Thursday.

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South Korea's Ministry of Defense has implemented Iridium Communications' satellite communications products and services to advance the South Korean army's position and data tracking capabilities. Arion Communication, an Iridium service provider, helped facilitate the deployment of over 1,000 Iridium Connected satellite position reporting equipment devices, Iridium said Wednesday.

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Jim Gwiazda, vice president of public sector sales at Equinix, and David Young, public policy senior manager, said in a joint blog post published Monday that through the Federal Data Center Enhancement Act of 2023, Congress directs government agencies to advance the adoption of colocation, hybrid cloud, interconnection systems and other commercial data center platforms to enable them to meet their changing mission requirements.

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The General Services Administration is seeking information from potential contractors that can provide IT, telecommunications and other services to advance its Next Generation Network Infrastructure strategy. In a notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov, GSA issued a request for information as part of the pre-solicitation stage for new Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contracts that will support the NGNI strategy.

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Digital services integrator Fearless secured a three-year contract to help the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention further develop, maintain and modernize the Enterprise Data Exchange, or DEX, platform, which is designed to support data ingestion, routing, validation, provisioning and streaming. DEX works to receive data from clinics, hospitals, laboratories, nonprofit organizations and government agencies and deliver that data back to the same entities through portals and application programming interfaces, the company said in a Dec. 11 news release.

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ICF will modernize the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s kidney dialysis data reporting system under a potential three-year, $33 million recompete contract from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The technology firm said Tuesday it is developing an Amazon Web Services cloud-based service for CMS' End Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System to expedite the collection, analysis and synthesis of patient data to efficiently pair patients with health providers.

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The decrease in military retention rates is a major issue for national defense. The scarcity of seasoned leaders impacts military effectiveness and raises questions about lower job satisfaction in the defense forces.    The U.S.’s overall military retention rate was 55% in 2021, highlighting the need for improvement. Inadequate compensation, toxic leadership, and limited freedom […] More

Alpha Omega has received a potential five-year, $43 million contract from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service within the agency’s National Centers for Environmental Information. Under the award, Alpha Omega will provide operational support for the organization's Data Stewardship Division.

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Digital transformation services provider DMI has secured a $27 million contract to provide on-site application hosting and monitoring services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's data centers in Atlanta, Georgia. DMI said Thursday the contract encompasses software and data management enhancements to CDC applications to boost the delivery of health services to the public.

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Want to know how the government harnesses technology to improve human-centered design while advancing transparency, eliminating inequitable barriers, and safeguarding crucial data? Register here to be a part of  The CX Imperative Forum.   The CX Imperative Forum is an upcoming summit that will take place on January 25, 2024. One of the highlights of […] More

NASA has awarded the PBG FedSync joint venture the Glenn-Langley Administrative Support Services contract. The space agency said Wednesday that the awardee will provide administrative support services to various organizations, programs and projects at the Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Langley Research Center in Virginia.

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The digital division of Baltimore, Maryland-based Fearless Solutions has won a three-year, $35.3 million contract from the Department of Health and Human Services. Under the contract, Fearless Digital will support the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Enterprise Data Exchange, a cloud-based data ingestion, validation and observation service.

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