Government leaders are moving toward a hybrid cloud approach as cloud technologies and data needs continue to evolve. Officials from the Defense Information Systems Agency and the Army’s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency spoke about how their organizations are embracing hybrid cloud and the new opportunities emerging in this area. Roger Greenwell...
The U.S. Air Force has started soliciting industry feedback to help inform the acquisition strategy for a potential 10-year, follow-on contract for operation and maintenance support services at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida. The Eglin Operation and Maintenance Services II Program will support research and development, training missions and test an...
Mark D’Alessandro, a strategic information technology executive who previously served as a Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) vice president, was named chief technology officer at Four Points Technology, according to his LinkedIn announcement. He brings to the IT-focused, service disabled veteran owned small business nearly three decades of experi...
Thunderdome is a new, modernized cybersecurity and technology architecture for the Department of Defense, spearheaded by the Defense Information Systems Agency. It is part of the Pentagon’s official zero trust strategy, as mandated by President Biden’s Executive Order and concretized in the DOD’s Nov. 2022 zero trust strategy. Thunderdome gai...
The Department of Homeland Security intends to launch a competition for the third iteration of the Geospatial Technical Support Services blanket purchase agreement. GTSS 3.0 is anticipated to have a ceiling amount of over $100 million and DHS expects to issue a solicitation for the planned multiple-award BPA by the end of May, according to...
Six companies have won spots on a potential $2 billion follow-on indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide the Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Pacific with incidental facility construction services. The third iteration of the Global Contingency Services Multiple Award Contract covers short-term facility support service...
The rise of the digital realm has made information technology a key factor in the success of any organization. U.S. government agencies have embraced the digital space, and public sector officials are now exploring numerous technologies that could revolutionize federal IT. The Potomac Officers Club’s 5th Annual CIO Summit on April 17 will feature...
Park Place Technologies has acquired SDV Solutions, a provider of client-centric data center infrastructure platforms for federal government agencies, for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand its portfolio of managed services, professional services, hardware maintenance and other information technology services for federal clients. Establ...
When most people think of generative artificial intelligence, these days they’re thinking of commercial large language models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude or Microsoft Copilot. But genAI, as it’s known, also has immense utility in the public sector space as a data organization tool and to automate certain customer experience pro...
Project Maven was launched in 2017 to accelerate the adoption of artificial intelligence across the U.S. military. The initiative has made tremendous strides in its efforts to explore new AI technologies, and in November, it became a program of record at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Rachael Martin, director of NGA’s Maven Office a...
