The director of the Defense Information Systems Agency said over $200 million worth of orders have been awarded under the Department of Defense’s $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capacity contract vehicle. Speaking at the AFCEA TechNet Augusta conference, Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said 13 JWCC task orders have been issued and […]
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure announced on Tuesday that it received U.S. Intelligence Community authorization to host top secret/sensitive compartmented information missions. The authorization adds to OCI’s list of services cleared in May by the Defense Information Systems Agency and FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board, which include Oracle Cloud Guard and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OS Management. The latest […]
The U.S. Air Force has selected the California-based hardened network solutions provider Actelis Networks to modernize on-base networking. Under the deal, Actelis will provide its hybrid fiber-copper networking solutions to extend connectivity to 41 sites within an unnamed Air Force base and enable data services and mission-critical systems monitoring and control. The company was chosen […]
Chris DeRusha, the federal chief information security officer, has revealed that the White House is making a decade-long federal agency modernization plan to phase out legacy systems and strengthen national cybersecurity. At a Nextgov/FCW event on Tuesday, DeRusha explained that old systems make it difficult to implement guidance on encryption and multifactor authentication. He added […]
Staff from Department of Energy national laboratories released over the summer a report that describes an initiative that seeks to produce artificial intelligence tools to accelerate research and development efforts relevant to the agency’s mission. The report, titled “Advanced Research Directions on AI for Science, Energy, and Security,” envisions the application of AI in multiple […]
The Biden administration is speeding up efforts to create an executive order to guide federal agencies on how to use artificial intelligence responsibly and address risks posed by the technology. Arati Prabhakar, director of the White House Office of Science Technology and Policy, said President Joe Biden has expressed concerns about AI security as generative […]
The U.S. Marine Corps Systems Command wants to learn about commercial chatbots that could augment a multilevel tactical data system for geospatial intelligence. The service uses the Distributed Common Ground/Surface System-Marine Corps GEOINT platform to collect and process such intelligence data to facilitate battlespace visualization and common ground for decision-making. According to a request for […]
Carahsoft Technology has inked an agreement to distribute contact center analytics provider SuccessKPI‘s Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program-compliant offerings to the public sector through reseller partners and contract vehicles such as NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V and National Association of State Procurement Officials ValuePoint. SuccessKPI provides a cloud-based analytics platform intended to support […]
The Department of Defense has created a new task force in charge of harnessing the power of generative artificial intelligence while ensuring the adoption of the technology will not harm national security. Task Force Lima will assess generative AI tools and address risks associated with them prior to employing the technologies across the DOD. The […]
The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Cost and Economics is conducting market research to determine the availability of vendors with the expertise and resources to operate and maintain the Cost Analysis and Visualization Environment system in cArmy, a cloud ecosystem meant for use by the U.S. Army. CAVE is an application used by […]
