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Leidos-Led Industry Team to Support Department of Defense Climate Resilience Initiatives Under $100M BPA
A Leidos-led team will help the Department of Defense develop and integrate climate resilience strategies into its core functions and reduce greenhouse gas emissions under a potential five-year, $100 million blanket purchase agreement. Leidos said Thursday it will work with McKinsey & Co., ICF and Rocky Mountain Institute to assist DOD in meeting mission requirements and improving resource management processes under the Strategic Climate Sustainability and Resilience Services BPA.
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October 20, 2023, 9:35 am
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AWS Seeks to Facilitate Federal Data Sharing With New Platform; Rob Nolen Quoted
Amazon Web Services has developed and launched a new platform designed to help federal government customers integrate data across multiple systems, provide data access and facilitate the decision-making process in the cloud while building up security through the adoption of zero trust principles. According to an AWS Public Sector Blog post, Rob Nolen said the Data Fabric Security on AWS platform seeks to help customers streamline the process of integrating and sharing data across the enterprise.
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October 20, 2023, 9:22 am
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Palo Alto Networks’ Drew Epperson: Zero Trust Could Enabler Better User Experience
Drew Epperson, vice president for federal engineering at Palo Alto Networks, said the move to zero trust backed by the adoption of automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning tools could enable public sector organizations to provide a better user experience. In a video interview posted on the Carahsoft website, Epperson cited how the use of a cloud-based secure access service edge platform could benefit remote users when it comes to accessing applications.
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October 19, 2023, 10:43 am
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Google Public Sector’s Karen Dahut on Government Cloud Adoption, Shift to Zero Trust
Karen Dahut, CEO of Google Public Sector and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said public sector customers seeking to advance digital transformation efforts want three things: moving from legacy information technology systems to the cloud, having security built in and working with technology vendors that could support them. In an interview published Wednesday, Dahut told C4ISRNET about her insights on the adoption of cloud and artificial intelligence technologies by the Department of Defense and other federal agencies.
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October 19, 2023, 10:21 am
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Indira Rice Donegan Appointed Red River Chief Technology Evangelist
Indira Rice Donegan, a senior technologist with over two decades of experience across the Department of Defense and intelligence community, has joined Red River as chief technology evangelist. Donegan said on LinkedIn that, in her new role, she will help build up support for the company's technology platforms and services to help address complex challenges facing customers.
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October 18, 2023, 10:40 am
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Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth Discusses Government Cybersecurity Initiatives in Electric and Utilities Sector
Alex Whitworth, sales director at Carahsoft Technology, said the White House and other federal agencies launched several efforts to improve cybersecurity in the electric and utilities sector. These include a national security memorandum for critical infrastructure introduced in 2021 and a national cybersecurity strategy unveiled in March, Whitworth wrote in a blog post published Tuesday.
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October 18, 2023, 8:50 am
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NOAA Conducting Market Research for Traffic Coordination System for Space Presentation Layer
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has started soliciting information from potential industry sources that could provide a user interface for the Traffic Coordination System for Space. Responses are due Oct. 31, according to a request for information posted Monday on SAM.gov.
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October 17, 2023, 12:07 pm
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Godspeed Capital Invests in Health Care-Focused Architecture and Design Firm SHA
Godspeed Capital Management has made a strategic investment in Kentucky-based Stengel Hill Architecture as part of a move to make SHA its new architectural, engineering and consulting platform company focused on serving the U.S. health care facilities market.
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October 17, 2023, 9:09 am
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PickNik to Further Develop Robotics Platform With Pre-Seed Investment
PickNik Robotics has secured funding in an investment round led by Cypress Growth Capital and Stellar Ventures and will use the capital to further develop its robotics platform designed to enable engineers and developers to create and field robot arm applications.
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October 16, 2023, 7:58 am
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DRT Strategies Backs FDA’s Move to AWS Cloud to Advance Application Modernization
DRT Strategies has helped the Food and Drug Administration move its 27 mission-critical applications from an on-premises data center to the Amazon Web Services cloud environment to enable FDA to facilitate food substance review process, accelerate the identification of foodborne pathogens and quickly field new applications.
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October 16, 2023, 7:58 am
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Relativity Space Secures Multiyear Terran R Launch Contract From Intelsat
Relativity Space will use its reusable rocket, Terran R, to bring Intelsat satellites to orbit as early as 2026 under a multiyear launch services agreement with the satellite network operator. The multilaunch deal brings Relativity Space’s total backlog across nine customers to more than $1.8 billion.
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October 12, 2023, 11:14 am
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DARPA Seeks to Address Commercial Lunar Infrastructure Interoperability Gaps Through LOGIC Consortium
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will bring together government, industry, academia and international stakeholders through the Lunar Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium to facilitate technical discussions and develop interoperability standards for commercial lunar infrastructure and related technologies. The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory will oversee LOGIC to help establish an independent, permanent forum that will serve as a venue for various stakeholders to collaborate in support of the lunar community.
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October 12, 2023, 10:47 am