The Defense Logistics Agency gave six vendors the chance to present their artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities to the Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and AI Office, the Air Force Research Laboratory and George Mason University during the recent DLA Hackathon. The inaugural event was organized to increase engagement with the industry as the […]
Government services Maximus has secured an $87 million, five-year contract with the Internal Revenue Service to enhance the agency’s financial management systems. Awarded through the Enterprise Development, Operations Services blanket purchase agreement, the task order will support the IRS Internal Management Division, Maximus said. Specifically, Maximus will manage the General Ledger system and help maintain […]
The General Services Administration is focusing on various pilot projects and expanding its information technology workforce as part of an effort to modernize the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Speaking with FedScoop, Eric Mill, executive director for cloud strategy at GSA’s technology and transformation services, shared two ongoing pilots: one involving secure software development […]
The Department of Defense has released the Fulcrum: DOD Information Technology Advancement Strategy to guide the department in modernizing its IT infrastructure and delivering enhanced capabilities to the military. Signed and approved by Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense, the Fulcrum Strategy prioritizes user experience and agile, scalable infrastructure to meet dynamic operational needs and […]
The U.S. Army is further streamlining its procurement activities by integrating its modernized contract writing platform with the web-based General Fund Enterprise Business System, the service branch’s financial management system. The integration, which the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement rolled out […]
Amazon Web Services offers two solutions to help U.S. government agencies outside the continental United States overcome edge computing challenges, such as network communication delays and lack of security controls for authorization to operate. According to Naresh Dhiman, AWS senior solutions architect, the remedies available to OCONUS federal agencies are the AWS Modular Data Center […]
Carahsoft Technology will bring Pryon’s generative artificial solutions to the public sector under a distribution partnership. Pryon offers the Retrieval-Augmented Generation Suite comprising ingestion and retrieval engines that can be paired with large language models to simplify data access and analysis and capture valuable insights from unstructured data. The RAG solution will enable government users […]
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has designated Clarifai as an “Awardable” vendor for the Tradewinds Solutions Marketplace, the Department of Defense’s digital environment for procuring data, analytics, digital and artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities solutions through rapid acquisition procedures. Clarifai offers an AI workflow orchestration platform designed to speed up the development […]
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has awarded a two-year, $19 million contract to Palantir Technologies for a data infrastructure streamlining the agency’s core workflows. The contract calls for the use of Palantir’s AIP and Foundry software in the development of a strategy and system enabling rapid collection of data from various sources for […]
AFWERX, the U.S. Air Force’s innovation arm, has awarded Istari Digital a $15 million contract to provide a plug-and-play digital platform that will consolidate data from digital models and simulations to accelerate the development of future technologies. The platform will support the Model One program, which aims to create digital twins of devices, vessels and […]
