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Report: CIA Eyes Commercial Cloud Enterprise Contract Award by 2021
The CIA hosted on March 22 an industry day as it plans to award by 2021 a cloud contract worth “tens of billions†of dollars to multiple service providers in support of its national security mission, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Intel, Lockheed Unveil Hardware-Based Security Platform
Lockheed Martin and Intel have jointly developed a new virtualization platform designed to help customers avoid cyber attacks by isolating crucial data and protecting shared resources.
GSA Updates Highly Adaptive Cyber Services Special Item Number on Schedule 70
The General Services Administration has updated a special item number on the IT Schedule 70 in order to provide federal agencies access to an expanded range of cybersecurity support services meant to protect mission-critical platforms and high-value assets.
UiPath’s Jim Walker: Feds Continue to Leverage Robotic Process Automation for Business Ops
Jim Walker, director of public sector marketing at UiPath, said the federal government increased its use of robotic process automation tools in 2018 and the growth may continue with more agencies looking at the technology to improve operations.Â
Accenture Federal Services Report: Agencies Need to Build Workforce Trust in AI Systems
Accenture’s federal services arm has released a report recommending that federal agencies incorporate a human-centered approach to artificial intelligence system design and encourage their workforce to have a “high degree of trust†in autonomous platforms.
General Dynamics, Curtiss-Wright Partner to Provide AI-Driven Situational Awareness Tool
General Dynamics' mission systems business has partnered with Curtiss-Wright to offer an artificial intelligence-driven situational awareness system for signal intelligence and electronic warfare. General Dynamics said Tuesday it will combine its SignalEye software with Curtiss-Wright’s Intel-based CHAMP-XD1 processor to help users classify radio frequency signals via machine learning.
DHS Unveils Funding Program for First Responder Technology R&D
The Department of Homeland Security is seeking potential partners from industry, academia, laboratories and other organizations to help the agency build new technologies for first responders in the country.Â
Project Hosts’ Private Cloud Offering Gets DISA Provisional Authorization
The Defense Information Systems Agency cleared a Project Hosts cloud computing service to host controlled unclassified information for Department of Defense and federal customers. Project Hosts received a 12-month provisional authorization at impact level 5 for the Federal Private Cloud, a platform-as-a-service offering for DoD personnel to manage applications deployed on the department network, DISA said Tuesday.
Akhan-Made Glass Coating Wins Army Tech Competition
Akhan Semiconductor has recieved $120K for winning the third phase of the U.S. Army's competition in search of expeditionary technologies. The company said Monday it won as a finalist of the Army's Expeditionary Technology Search or xTechSearch 2.0 program and secured an opportunity to demonstrate Miraj Diamond protective coating.
Mitre, Visium Sign Cybersecurity Tech Licensing Deal
Visium Technologies has secured licensing rights to commercialize a technology Mitre developed for cyber warfare analytics, knowledge management and visualization tasks.
VA to Host Industry Events for Electronic Health Records Modernization Effort
The Department of Veterans Affairs will host three business opportunity sessions to discuss with industry the requirements of the agency’s electronic health records modernization program.