Technology

Carmen Krueger, senior vice president of North American enterprise sales at Qualtrics, has said federal agencies seeking to enhance mission outcomes and client satisfaction should begin with improving the employee experience.

The Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit has started to seek offers from U.S. operators of remote sensing satellites that can provide data analytics and imagery services, SpaceNews reported Monday.

Greg Simons, vice president of support services and business development at SAP National Security Services, has said improving customer experience should be part of federal agencies’ digital transformation efforts.

The General Services Administration has released its amended solicitation for e-commerce platforms to help facilitate the procurement process for government agencies, Nextgov reported Friday.

Kevin Richards, vice president and head of U.S. government relations at SAP (NYSE: SAP), has said using data could help agencies track and understand the effectiveness of platforms.

U.S. Transportation Command is interested in partnering with entities from industry and academia to explore technology platforms for potential use by the joint force in global mobility operations. Transcom said it looks to award cooperative research and development agreements in an effort to address the economics, uses and technical and operational maturity of space transportation systems.

The U.S. Air Force has issued a broad agency announcement to ask for technical concept papers on kill chain integration as the service branch aims to increase awareness of emerging threats, according to a notice posted Friday on the beta SAM website.

The U.S. Army has asked information on potential vendors that can provide personnel, facilities and technical skills to support testing of hypersonic vehicles. A request for information notice stated the Army plans to award a four-year, cost-type contract worth under $100M for the Hypersonic Test Engineering, Mission Planning and Systems program by June 2020.

Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) CST-100 Starliner crew capsule landed Sunday at the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico after completing its first orbital test flight.

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) has received provisional authorization from the Department of Defense to allow its Azure cloud infrastructure-as-a-service offering to host secret classified data for 90 days, Nextgov reported Thursday.