Technology

David Egts, chief technologist for North America public sector at Red Hat, said he believes more companies will pursue Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification in calendar year 2020 as the process gets easier, Federal News Network reported Monday.

The Department of Energy will award $128M in funds through its office of energy efficiency and renewable energy to support 75 research projects that seek to advance the development of solar technologies.

Coral Gables, Fla.-based data center provider Cyxtera Technologies has announced plans to separate its cybersecurity business to form a standalone company that will operate as AppGate.

The U.S. Postal Service has selected NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) to provide an artificial intelligence-based technology platform to support package data processing at the agency.

Microsoft (NYSE: MSFT) has developed a suite of quantum computing services based on the Azure cloud platform. The company said Monday it partnered with Honeywell (NYSE: HON), 1QBit, QCI and IonQ to assemble software, hardware and other pre-built tools into Azure Quantum.

Kyle Rice, chief technology officer at SAP National Security Services, has said government agencies can modernize and ensure the security of their information technology infrastructure by leveraging commercial offerings and an example of that is working with industry partners to integrate artificial intelligence into the cloud.

The Aspen Cybersecurity Group announced that 15 companies have expressed their commitment to implementing talent management principles meant to narrow the cybersecurity skills gap.

Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government and compliance at Zscaler (Nasdaq: ZS), has said there are several techniques and tools agencies could use to provide users secure connections to applications wherever they are. Kovac wrote about how zero-trust networking uses encrypted microtunnels and microsegmentation to establish a seamless and trusted connection between users and apps.

Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) has utilized multiple heterogeneous unmanned vehicles to demonstrate a swarming approach during a field experiment with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The Department of Defense plans to release in November a draft solicitation notice for 5G connectivity prototypes that will be tested in large-scale experiments.