Latest stories

in Industry News, News
ASRC Federal, DLA Forge Partnership to Strengthen Military Supply Chain Support; Chris Frye Quoted
ASRC Federal and the Defense Logistics Agency have signed a partnership agreement to push the implementation of joint strategies and process improvements to strengthen supply chain support to U.S. warfighters. The company said Tuesday the partnership with DLA aims to improve administrative timeliness, customer deliverables and responsiveness to the armed forces through the development of […] More
May 8, 2024, 11:40 am
in Artificial Intelligence, News
Mitre Announces Federal AI Sandbox Capability; NVIDIA’s Anthony Robbins Quoted
Mitre is establishing a new capability to provide researchers and developers the computing power needed to train and test generative artificial intelligence, large language models and other AI tools for use in the federal government. The nonprofit organization said Tuesday it will use NVIDIA‘s DGX SuperPOD system to support its Federal AI Sandbox, which is […] More
May 8, 2024, 11:37 am
in Government Technology, News
Maxar Intelligence, Lockheed Sign Agreement to Improve F-35 Simulator Experience; Susanne Hake Quoted
Maxar Intelligence and Lockheed Martin will streamline the purchase and delivery of geospatial products for the F-35 fighter jet’s flight simulation and training platform under a new agreement. Maxar said Monday the long-term agreement with Lockheed seeks to standardize licensing, pricing and requirements for its products, including Dynamic imagery basemaps and Precision3D Data Suite, as […] More
May 7, 2024, 11:57 am
in Cloud, News
GSA Seeks Feedback on Draft Solicitation for Pool 1 of Ascend Cloud Services BPA
The General Services Administration has released a draft solicitation for the first pool of the potential eight-year Ascend blanket purchase agreement to meet the U.S. federal government’s needs for cloud services and related information technology professional services. The Ascend BPA is divided into three pools and Pool 1 focuses on infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service cloud offerings, […] More
May 7, 2024, 11:55 am
in Healthcare IT, News
Oracle Announces Full Deployment of Federal EHR System at DOD Garrison Facilities; Seema Verma Quoted
Oracle has fully deployed the MHS Genesis electronic health record system at all Department of Defense garrison facilities worldwide, supporting over 197,200 end users, more than 3,800 locations and over 9.5 million DOD beneficiaries across the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific. The company said Friday the milestone was reached after the federal EHR system went live […] More
May 6, 2024, 11:54 am
in News
Epiq Solutions to Equip Software-Defined Radios With DeepSig’s AI, Machine Learning Tech
Epiq Solutions will integrate DeepSig‘s artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies with its software-defined radios under a partnership with the AI-native wireless communications tech provider as part of efforts to improve signal intelligence, direction finding and communications. Epiq Solutions said Thursday its Matchstiq G-Series and Matchstiq X40 SDR platforms will be equipped with DeepSig’s OmniSIG […] More
May 6, 2024, 11:51 am
in Government Technology, News
SAP NS2’s Cloud ERP Gets DISA Impact Level 4 Provisional Authorization; Harish Luthra Quoted
SAP National Security Services has received Impact Level 4 provisional authorization from the Defense Information and Systems Agency for its cloud-based enterprise resource planning platform. SAP NS2 said Thursday the DISA IL4 authorization allows it to deploy the SAP S/4HANA Cloud Private Edition ERP offering within the Department of Defense’s cloud environment to support enterprise […] More
May 3, 2024, 11:43 am
in Government Technology, News
Boeing Conducts Virtual Demo to Test Software for Manned-Unmanned Refueling Missions
Boeing demonstrated virtually the capability of its manned-unmanned teaming software to perform aerial refueling missions using a digital F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet and an MQ-25 Stingray drone. Boeing said Wednesday that a Super Hornet pilot tested the MUM-T software by sending commands to the MQ-25 drone to refuel the fighter jet during a demonstration […] More
May 2, 2024, 12:17 pm
in Artificial Intelligence, News
CGI Federal’s Victor Foulk on 3 Principles Agency Leaders Should Consider in AI Implementation
Victor Foulk, vice president of emerging technologies at CGI Federal, said chief AI officers and other federal agency leaders should consider three principles as they design and implement their artificial intelligence programs to strike a balance between mission execution and performance and security risks of implementing AI tools. In a blog post published Tuesday, Foulk […] More
May 1, 2024, 11:48 am
in Cybersecurity, News
White House Seeks to Strengthen Critical Infrastructure Security With New Memo; Xage’s Roman Arutyunov Quoted
President Joe Biden signed a new memorandum on Tuesday to improve the security and resilience of U.S. critical infrastructure. The National Security Memorandum, which replaces Presidential Policy Directive 21 signed in February 2013, directs the Department of Homeland Security to oversee the whole-of-government effort to ensure the security of U.S. critical infrastructure and the DHS […] More
May 1, 2024, 11:45 am
in Contract Awards, News
USDA Intends to Award CSP Cloud Core Services Task Order to Microsoft Under STRATUS Program
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced its intent to issue a task order to Microsoft under the first pool of the STRATUS program for cloud service provider core services. USDA issued a request for quotes in October and awarded Microsoft a basic ordering agreement under STRATUS Pool 1 on Friday following the assessment of […] More
April 30, 2024, 11:21 am
in Government Technology, News
MetTel’s Don Parente on Potential Benefits of SD-WAN to Federal Agencies
Don Parente, vice president of sales and solution architecture for the federal sector at MetTel, said a software-defined wide area network could serve as a revolutionary architecture that could enable federal agencies to deliver secure network connectivity to multiple sites. SD-WAN “uses a centralized control plane to route traffic, allowing administrators to write rules and […] More
April 30, 2024, 11:20 am