DISA network to be 10 times faster with planned upgrade

Soldiers need better tools for understanding the "vast amount of information" presented on the battlefield, the Army says.

The role of OPM in the President's Management Agenda can't be understated — nor can the potential for the agency to transform itself as a result.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein said the bill was meant to curb increasing attempts of cyber-espionage by foreign nations.

DHS officials are exploring how they can use CDM's new shared services platform, including possibly offering security operations to cabinet-level agencies.

But, he said, that will come with a brief pause to catch new leadership up to speed.

Defense Innovation Unit Experimental has inked a $400,000 contract with the airspace security company, which provides both hardware and software solutions for finding, tracking, classifying and "neutralizing" malicious drones.

The HACQer program is another opportunity for the group to share its ideas about how to acquire technology in a way that's not traditional of the Pentagon.

Kent wouldn't say who the winners are, however.

Leaders say though the implementation of TBM is ongoing, early returns are showing the benefits of using the taxonomy.

The DOD wants to bring its enterprise communication, collaboration and productivity applications into the 21st century with a proposed cloud acquisition worth up to $8 billion.

The legislation also calls to limit department senior executive service CIO roles to just five starting in 2021.

In a hearing Tuesday, officials pointed to several problems limiting DOD's innovation and possible solutions.

Emily Murphy told House appropriators she thinks it's the right amount as "a proof of concept."

While the contract was amended in some places to reflect the more than 1,000 comments and concerns of interested vendors, the contract's single award acquisition strategy remains.

The DOD’s key agency for combating weapons of mass destruction is requesting new technology solutions to detect a nuclear attack.

Jeff Boleng will be part of the executive leadership team of Ellen Lord, undersecretary of Defense for acquisition and sustainment

DOD Secretary Jim Mattis detailed his aggressive agenda for Pentagon research and engineering.

The FBI signaled its interest in pursuing a $5-billion IDIQ contract to provide all IT services across the Department of Justice.

By moving to a single cloud architecture, rather than awarding contracts to multiple cloud providers, DOD is limiting its ability to plan for failure and keep its systems a step ahead of adversaries, they said.

Industry stakeholders will have a voice in ODNI’s redesign of the intelligence community’s acquisition process, officials said Tuesday.

Agency leaders have decided to split the technology acquisition and policy roles as part of a planned reorganization that will debut in July.

The Defense Health Agency outlined plans to add the Coast Guard to a contract it struck with Leidos and Cerner.

A recently posted request for information seeks details about solutions that are "not limited to the functionality of 'Slack'," in the interest of finding something that "extends its capability."

Ely said "never in my career have I seen the stars more aligned than they are now.”

Deputy U.S. CIO Margie Graves said her team wants to do a better job of holding agencies accountable for meeting goals on a quarterly basis.

Tony Scott sees value in agencies applying blockchain technology for common use cases in the government.

An ACT-IAC working group has penned a new playbook to help agencies determine whether blockchain is right for them and if they are ready to implement it.

The deal makes General Dynamics IT the largest provider of technology services to the federal government by a hefty margin.

DOD wants to move its Defense Agencies Initiative to some sort of cloud environment.

Officials looking to begin the lift of transforming their infrastructures could start by applying microservices to their underlying systems.

DHS's CDM program is close to receiving authorization for a shared services platform to provide cybersecurity support to non-CFO Act agencies.

If approved, the CSRA and General Dynamics merger would result in the leading federal IT services provider.

GSA's role in helping to modernize the government's digital infrastructure has presented Emily Murphy with plenty of opportunities to improve how federal agencies buy technology.

The archival agency partnered with the GSA's shared services office to develop policies for new electronic records acquisition vehicles.

Congress is asking why there should be a "single award contract rather than creating an infrastructure capable of storing and sharing data across multiple cloud computing service providers concurrently."

Someone allegedly redirected federal payments to bank accounts not tied to the appropriate contractors.

The bureau issued a schedule Wednesday for the re-compete of its $30 billion Information Technology Supplies and Support Services contract.

Google Cloud could be soon going toe-to-toe Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure in the competitive federal cloud marketplace.

FedRAMP issued new documents detailing the requirements needed for automated scanning.

Through a vast transformation of federal operations, the President’s Management Agenda aims to deliver citizen services with private sector efficiency.

The executive director of the Unified Shared Services Management office talks about the impact she expects it to have on IT modernization efforts.

GSA officials detailed prospective legislative changes needed to establish e-commerce portals in a conference call on Friday.

Congressional leaders lamented that while the NSF’s budget remains at 2017 levels, the Chinese are committing more R&D resources to emerging technologies.

Shulkin said a finalized contract with Cerner could be coming soon, but first the department is addressing interoperability concerns.

The contracts will address initial work on each of the five tentpoles the Trump administration has designated within the USDA.

DHS Deputy CIO Steve Rice wants more than new products from government IT contractors.

Two months after it scored a contract to update HHS's IT operations, CSRA will now provide engineering services to manage its NextGen IT infrastructure.

The contract stands to serve as a major foot in the door for AWS to prove its ability to host DOD's secret-level systems.

The agency is looking for software that can integrate with existing asset management systems across the department’s 22 component agencies.

Government “absolutely” will still work with vendors, she said. “They just need a different set of rules."

Needless to say, REAN Cloud LLC isn't very happy.

The Pentagon's stance is that multiple awards would make the JEDI project too complex and too risky.

At an industry day, Pentagon officials detailed their vision for the JEDI contract. "We want to bring this to the warfighter," one official said.

The department plans to narrow the scope of the five-year contract, originally worth $950 million, to just $65 million — a drawback of more than 90 percent.

Department of Defense components will now be able to use the agency’s newest cloud computing infrastructure on a provisional basis.

FedRAMP previewed upcoming guidance it will issue on the external services cloud service providers should document for continuous monitoring compliance.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is seeking details on how to migrate all of its applications to the cloud ahead of a September 2019 deadline.

The U.S. Cyber Command is seeking insights on joint analytics support capabilities it’s looking to obtain, including development and optimization.

The OPM inspector general's new report that the agency’s plan to update its IT infrastructure does not include key budget and security information.

The agency's new governmentwide software agreement provides discounted solutions for bulk buying on its IT schedule.