GSA calls for blockchain and machine learning to speed acquisition

An updated regulation requires all vendors who do business with the department to more safely guard "covered defense information" that is transmitted to or stored in their systems or networks for contracted work.

OPM is looking for "commercially available alternatives" to its federal retirement Trust Funds accounting system.

The contract was first awarded in 2015 but was quickly protested by Northrup Grumman.

CSRA will provide transition services as the DOD rolls out the first phase of milCloud 2.0.

Security in the cloud is still a major concern for federal CIOs, but it's not the leading concern it once was, according to Teresa Carlson.

"We had an agile process for doing the solicitation and the evaluation, but we fell back to a waterfall documentation process, which caused us some problems," DHS Chief Procurement Officer Soraya Correa said.

Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Tom Sharpe and his deputy Kevin Youel-Page issued their resignations, both effective June 24.

State will cap the contract at a maximum value of $850 million, according to a request for proposals.

The General Services Administration will reorganize its Technology Transformation Service after only a year, putting the agile-focused TTS under the more traditional Federal Acquisition Service and appointing a new FAS head, FedScoop has learned.

Agencies and policymakers must do more to support digital service teams, a new report from the IBM Center says.

The tech company will develop and operate next-generation IT support for Environmental Protection Agency research facilities and locations nationwide.

What began as a federal IT project to support the nation's first responders has devolved into a turf war over who will control the radio waves.

The department has made solid progress on implementing FITARA, but the office of the chief information officer could be doing more, a new report says.

Seven vendors have received prioritization to work with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, to pursue cloud authorizations as part of its Connect process.

The Virginia-based company has been awarded a $57 million task order by the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts for support of the agency’s IT security office.

By June states should have a draft plan for the nation’s first public safety network to decide whether they will opt in or out of the program later this fall.

The Trump administration is poised to continue leaning on the innovative practices introduced under President Barack Obama, particularly as agencies' budgets are set to be cut, leading federal procurement officials said Thursday.

In this contributed commentary, DCode42's Andrew McMahon dives into the looming issues that plague government technology.

The company will support the agency's high-performance computing systems as well as its scientific visualization hardware and software.

Until recently, the Department of Homeland Security's component agencies weren't giving proper scrutiny to non-major acquisition programs, according to a new Government Accountability Office report.

The VA proposes migrating its Veterans Information Systems and Technology Architecture, better known as VistA, to a COTS, software-as-a-service platform.

The Federal Bureau of Prisons is looking for information on a commercial-off-the-shelf solution that could help them aggregate and interpret "data relating to inmate reintegration into the community."

The telecom company is set to provide voice-over-internet-protocol service and a hosted contact center to the General Services Administration's Federal Acquisition Service.

Planned cost and schedule estimates for most of 18 Defense Department major automated information system programs changed from their original baselines, according to a new report.

America's first nationwide interoperable wireless network for public safety finally has a builder.

The White House Office of American Innovation will initially focus on issues such as federal technology modernization, technology procurement and overhauling systems at the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Now officially out of the race, Rivada Mercury will seek the business of the states that opt-out of the federal agency's $6.5 billion nationwide public safety communications network.

The Defense Innovation Unit Experimental isn't slowing down, despite some reins Congress put on it last year, one of its managing partners said to FedScoop.

The National Science Foundation announced a new program Wednesday to build wireless-technology research hubs across the country, backed by nearly $100 million in pledged funding and resources.

Aaron Snow has joined cBrain as chief operating officer for North America, the Danish government digitization and automation firm announced Thursday.

The initiative by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is designed to make it easier for government to buy commercial geospatial earth observation data, products and services.

The State Department is looking to quickly develop an application that will help it better match Foreign Service employees with work assignments.

Commentary: In this guest contribution, 18F co-founders Chris Cairns and Robert Read talk about financing agile projects in iterative chunks.

One of the Pentagon's main IT purchasers says it wants to copy the practices of a smaller, more nimble military office when it comes to rapidly funding new capabilities from industry.

GSA, on behalf of the federal government, has negotiated a deal for agencies to more easily and efficiently buy Hewlett Packard Enterprise Software's products.

The Department of Homeland Security is dishing out nearly $1 million in competitive awards to five startups developing cybersecurity technologies for the Internet of Things.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) unveiled Thursday the first draft of another tool it will add to its kit — a way to more efficiently authorize low-risk cloud services.

SeamlessDocs' Dan Tangherlini explains in this guest commentary how starting small with agile development and iteration can mitigate the risks of IT development.

The agency issued a request for information last week to gather feedback from vendors and other parties interested in providing governmentwide entity identification and validation services at the expiration of the current contract, held by Dun and Bradstreet.

Trump's White House is looking at IT risk management beyond the obvious cybersecurity concerns, and category management plays role on the acquisition side of that, says Bill Zielinski.

A new portal that was supposed to help staff of the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program actually made it harder for them to do their job, a congressional watchdog said in a new report.

The bug bounty platform HackerOne announced Wednesday a $40 million Series C financing round led by Dragoneer Investment Group, bringing total investment in the San Francisco-based company to $74 million.

Agencies across the U.S. government are increasingly looking to migrate their data into the cloud to cut costs, but doing so has also introduced new cybersecurity challenges.

GSA's Technology Transformation Service issued a draft solicitation through an open source GitHub project earlier this year looking for potential experienced vendors to help it establish its own bug bounty program.

18F's cloud.gov has now been authorized by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, making it the first fully open-sourced solution to complete the process, the General Services Administration said.

Bills designed to strengthen regional intelligence hubs called fusion centers, and make it easier for first-responder agencies to pursue new technology were among 17 homeland security measures passed Tuesday by the House.

Two bills scheduled for a vote in the House on Tuesday seek to improve the way Department of Homeland Security officials oversee and document certain acquisition programs.

The agency is launching a request for information from agile software contractors whose help it needs building agile development practices into EPA's enterprisewide acquisition process.

Accenture will begin work before the end of the fiscal year helping the FBI update its HR Source application, which was originally built around Oracle’s PeopleSoft Human Capital Management system.

If the Donald Trump administration issued a multi-year strategic vision for federal IT, it would help agencies stay focused on the administration’s highest priorities, a new Federal CIO Council report says.

Lookout's mobile security solution has achieved a designation indicating it is likely to be authorized by the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the company announced Thursday.

In trying to reform or regulate acquisition, the Hill normally does more harm than good, the Pentagon’s top acquisition official said on Tuesday.

An organization of IT leaders says the federal government could make changes to save more than $1 trillion during the next decade.

The Department of Homeland Security’s governmentwide Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation cybersecurity task orders can serve as pilots to show the effects a centralized IT fund could have on bolstering agencies’ modernization efforts, officials working on the program said.

The Defense Department’s unified IT provider is on the hunt for insider threat protection cybersecurity solutions to answer lawmakers’ fears that the department-wide network consolidation did not do enough to protect against threats from within.

Four companies protested the contract for a variety of reasons that the GAO found invalid and denied.

Shaun Donovan lays out the technology initiatives he believes the incoming Trump administration and 115th Congress should focus on.

The General Services Administration is looking for contractors with software-as-a-service offerings that could meet agencies' needs for administrative shared services.

Acting OPM Director Beth Cobert joins Gov Actually to talk about being called upon in 2015 to lead the response to the agency's massive cyber breaches.

The federal agency wants to harness ideas from academia, nonprofits and the private sector to enhance communications for first responders.