Due to the demands of the COVID-19 pandemic, the healthcare space has been pummeled over the last few years to answer the manifold and ever-growing needs of citizens. Many of these needs have solutions that can only be resolved through agencies’ information technology systems. “For us, during COVID, it was really about, how quickly can...
By Cameron Chehreh, Vice President and General Manager of Public Sector at Intel and 2023 Wash100 Award winner Today, 93 percent of Americans are on the Internet. At least 85 percent have a smartphone. More than 300 million have access to 5G service, with 168 million 5G subscriptions forecast by next year. Meanwhile, 85 million...
For military service branches, connectivity at the tactical edge — often outside of the continental United States — is critical to mission success. Warfighters must be able to access data, intelligence, capabilities and technological power in these environments in order to fight and win, especially during an era of increasing global competition ...
Preston Dunlap, former chief architect at the Department of the Air Force, has been appointed a strategic adviser at SOS International. “Having developed creative ways to scale operations and deliver outsized value through technology at the world’s largest employer, the Department of Defense, I look forward to contributing to SOSi’s mission to...
Keeping government information technology systems apace with the rapid developments of the private sector is a constant challenge. New tools and technologies are being introduced at a head-spinning rate and many of them have the potential to make the government processes more efficient, affordable and even fundamentally change the nature of the offe...
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification has been divisive throughout its creation over the last decade-plus, but especially since its implementation in 2017 as a requirement for defense industrial base organizations. As part of the initiative, contracting companies working with the Department of Defense must have their cyber protection system...
The Department of Veterans Affairs has revised its electronic health record system modernization contract with Oracle Cerner a month after VA halted deployments of the EHR system as part of a program reset, Bloomberg Government reported Tuesday. In April, VA reset the program in a move to address EHR-related issues that were identified at five...
Through its purchase of iDoxSolutions Inc., a Bethesda, Maryland-based information technology and management consulting company, B&A will provide federal, state and local government customers with more advanced IT offerings. iDox will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of the McLean, Virginia-headquartered IT services company. Founded in 2000, iDo...
Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) saw higher revenue from domestic and international government operations in the first quarter of 2023 on the back of significant contract wins during the three-month period. The data analytics technology provider saw its overall January-March government sales jump 20 percent year over year to $289 million, ac...
Software factories are a central component of the Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide software modernization effort, and today, they’re growing slowly but surely across the defense landscape. But there’s still much to be accomplished in building out a full-fledged software factory ecosystem. DOD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer sa...
