Solid State Scientific Corp. has secured a five-year, $186.9 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force update cloud-based infrastructure for military weather forecasting. The company will develop a platform as a service to support the Weather Virtual Private Cloud under phase three of the branch’s Small Business Innovation Research program, ...
The Department of the Interior has released a solicitation for a potential 10-year, $1 billion follow-on contract for cloud license and support services. DOI plans to select three to five prime contractors for Foundation Cloud Hosting Services II, a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a two-year base term and four t...
The Department of Defense plans to explore the potential behind generative artificial intelligence during an upcoming AI conference in June, following a wave of commercial developments in the area. Maynard Holliday, deputy chief technology officer for critical technologies within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineer...
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Iron Bow Technologies a potential five-year, $743 million contract to provide software support services to the Department of Defense’s Fourth Estate agencies. The 4th Estate Cisco Software Enterprise Agreement has three support areas and the first one is the Global Enterprise Modernization Softwar...
The United States’ near-peer adversaries have the same technologies that we do, but on a much larger scale. The only way to be survivable in the near-peer fight of the future is to “be able to be networked, agile and lethal,” according to Greg Wenzel, executive vice president and a leader in Booz Allen Hamilton’s global defense...
A few years from now, the Department of Defense’s Joint Warfighter Cloud Capability will be in place and operational as the foundation for the department’s JADC2 initiative, according to John Sherman, chief information officer of DOD and a 2022 Wash100 Award winner. The department’s cloud adoption efforts have been difficult and remain diffi...
The Defense Department’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative is underway within federal agencies and military branches, following the release of the DOD’s JADC2 implementation plan in March 2022. One central component of JADC2 is modernizing the way mission partners and coalitions share information, especially as toda...
As the global geopolitical environment sees rapid developments unfolding, the United States is shoring up its defense and military capabilities to prepare for an array of potential scenarios in the face of budgetary and adversarial uncertainties. More than 20 of the Defense Department’s top leaders gathered on Wednesday during the McAleese FY2023...
During the State of the Union address on March 1, President Biden called for tightened border security and highlighted the “cutting-edge” technology currently being deployed at ports of entry to fortify the border. “If we are to advance liberty and justice, we need to secure the border and fix the immigration system,” Biden stated. “I...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, Nov. 18, 2021 — Tim Conway, president of NTT Data‘s public sector group and a two-time Wash100 Award recipient, said the company will work with Maryland to help its health department pursue “modernization and equity of care,” ExecutiveBiz reported Tuesday. NTT Data will support the state’s creation of a p...
