The chairwoman of the House Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation has asked the Department of Defense’s undersecretary for personnel and readiness to explain why a new travel management system program was canceled. Rep. Nancy Mace wants to hear from Gilbert Cisneros Jr. on July 18 about why the MyTravel software was canceled […]
Labor union leaders attended a White House listening session on June 30 about the potential benefits and risks of artificial intelligence. Such groups have voiced concerns about the technology’s potential impact on job security, health and civil rights. Union representatives at the event included Amanda Ballantyne, director of the American Federation of Labor and Congress […]
The Government Accountability Office has urged the Pentagon to create department-wide artificial intelligence acquisition guidance to avoid unnecessary AI procurements and provide military services a framework for developing complementary guidance to address their specific needs. A new GAO report said some Department of Defense components have developed informal AI acquisition-related resources; however, they do not […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has granted Snowflake provisional authorization to operate at Impact Level 4 in the U.S.-West region of Amazon Web Services GovCloud. By acquiring IL4 clearance, the company is now allowed to handle controlled unclassified information such as personally identifiable information and expert controlled data. Jeff Frazier, Snowflake’s head of global public […]
Carahsoft Technology has teamed up with Coalfire and Google Public Sector to deliver tools designed to speed up the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authority to operate certification process and expand access to business opportunities with the government. Carahsoft is expected to distribute Coalfire’s FedRAMP products and advisory services to federal, state and institutional […]
The U.S. Central Command conducted an exercise where it was tasked to find, prioritize, approve and neutralize over 1,000 threats in a day and adapt to situations as they unfold. Schuyler Moore, chief technology officer of CENTCOM, wrote in a Breaking Defense article that under the Digital Falcon Oasis exercise, participants integrated software capabilities into […]
CACI NSS, a subsidiary of CACI International, has secured a $5.7 billion blanket purchase agreement for the first wave of Enterprise Information Technology as a Service, a Department of the Air Force program aimed at enabling airmen to prioritize network defense and mission assurance tasks by delegating basic IT services to commercial firms. CACI NSS […]
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a spot on the seven-year, $2.6 billion Enterprise Development, Operations Services blanket purchase agreement. The EDOS contract allows Booz Allen to compete for task orders supporting the agency’s application development and modernization efforts. The BPA is designed to enhance development, modernization and enhancement services while reducing […]
Primer has entered into a partnership agreement with Carahsoft Technology to make the company’s artificial intelligence products, including strategic data analysis and threat detection, easily accessible to the public sector. As Primer’s master government aggregator, Carahsoft will make Primer’s AI technology available through its reseller partners and through contract procurement and acquisition agreements such as […]
Quantexa has entered into an aggregator agreement with Carahsoft Technology, to better develop Quantexa’s public sector channel for its Contextual Decision Intelligence platform. Quantexa’s CDI platform connects internal and external data points to create context, which according to its North America Regional Vice President Paul Stacey, is capable of unlocking new opportunities for organizations through […]
