Veritas Technologies has released two new cloud-based technology offerings designed for data archiving and electronic discovery operations. Veritas said Tuesday it partnered with bluesource and ProjectHosts to make Veritas’  Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator platforms available to government agencies through a software-as-a-service level cloud environment certified under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Enterprise Vault and Discovery Accelerator work to help users manage their […] More

A Xerox study reports that 49 percent of respondents from 23 cities around the world believe one application will support all transportation needs while 27 percent see themselves using a self-driving car by 2020. Xerox said Monday the upcoming Global Transportation Survey report reflects citizens’ increased expectations for integrated transportation services and innovation over the coming years. “Mobility is complicated, infrastructure […] More

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has identified and tested the use of thermally sprayed cobalt alloy and electroless nickel as alternative alloy coatings for military facility pump components for the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center–Construction Engineering Research Laboratory. CTC said Monday ERDC-CERL has tasked the company under the direction of the Office of the Secretary of Defense to […] More

The Department of Energy has awarded $850,000 in funds to support groundwater restoration and fractured rock characterization projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico under DOE’s Technology Commercialization Fund. DOE picked a total of 54 energy technology projects that involve collaboration between 12 national laboratories and 52 companies as part of an effort to help businesses move technologies from the lab to the market, LANL said […] More

Symantec has said the independent information management company to form from the company’s split announced in October will be called Veritas Technologies and that the security business will retain the Symantec name. The company said Wednesday Veritas will have its own logo that represents the strategy toward “open, heterogeneous technologies.” “While the name recalls the company’s heritage, the new logo signals that Veritas is […] More

All network security strategies are centered on protecting sensitive data and the success of such a measure relies on organizations’ understanding of both internal and external interactions with the data, according to Francis Ofungwu of Unisys. Ofungwu, director of network security services at the company, writes in a post published Thursday that organizations must perform data discovery, data isolation and monitoring […] More

Erik Buice leads Northrop Grumman‘s health systems management unit as vice president and leads a team of more than 800 personnel who help federal health agencies manage their information technology systems. Buice’s career has included stops at firms ranging from large to small, including IT and consulting roles at companies such as CGI, Patriot Technologies, […] More

MarkLogic Corp. and Datawatch have forged a strategic partnership to combine technologies in an effort to help customers gain value from big data. The companies will also collaborate to form a center of excellence. where services resulting from the partnership will be demonstrated, Datawatch said Wednesday. Gary Bloom, president and CEO of MarkLogic, said the company’s NoSQL […] More

Jeremy Glesner serves as chief technology officer at software and analysis firm Berico Technologies, a company he helped start in 2006 as the “federal sector began embracing agile methodologies and open source technologies to deliver increased capability to the warfighter while reducing cost,” the company notes. Glesner and Berico’s other co-founders saw an opportunity to provide interdisciplinary teams […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a request for information to find space-based technology offerings for potential use in satellites that weigh less than 1,102 pounds.

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A joint venture between Jacobs Solutions and Geosyntec Consultants has secured a spot on a potential five-year, $375 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to offer NASA environmental engineering, restoration and compliance services. Jacobs said Thursday the team will support NASA's centers, component facilities and other infrastructure assets by delivering technical consultation, contamination detection, sampling, human health and ecological risk assessments, remedial alternatives evaluation, remediation technologies implementation and environmental media management.

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Accenture Federal Services and Google Public Sector have unveiled a new center of excellence that seeks to help federal agencies improve citizen experience while managing sensitive and classified workloads using data management platforms and generative artificial intelligence technologies. The Data and AI Center of Excellence will provide agency clients with access to Google Cloud's AI-based code generation tools, Vertex AI platform, language models, specialized data and AI experts and AI-optimized infrastructure, the companies said in a joint release published Thursday.

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