Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) has secured a one-year contract renewal from the Department of Health and Human Services to support data management software used to monitor the government’s COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration activities nationwide. HHS enlisted the help of Palantir in mid-2020 to develop and implement the Tiber...
Gina Ortiz Jones, a former U.S. Air Force intelligence officer, received Senate confirmation Thursday via unanimous vote to serve as undersecretary of USAF, nearly three months after President Biden nominated her for the branch’s second highest-ranking civilian position. She replaces Anthony Reardon, who has held the undersecretary post on an ...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has selected 18 technology companies to help design and demonstrate various approaches to implementing zero trust architectures. The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s NCCoE said Thursday it will work with the companies to design and field architectures based on the concepts ...
Heather Murren, a financial services industry veteran who has served on the board of managers at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory since 2013, began serving as chair of the same board on July 1. She succeeds Michael Hankin, who led APL’s board of managers over the past six years and will continue to serve...
Intelligent Waves has received task orders under three government contracts to provide enterprise technology and acquisition support to defense customers. The service-disabled veteran-owned company said Wednesday it will develop an integrated audio system and live streaming software using government-furnished equipment as part of a task order under ...
The Department of Labor has proposed regulations to implement an executive order that will require government contractors to increase the minimum wage of employees working on federal contracts to $15 per hour starting Jan. 30, 2022. President Joe Biden signed in late April the executive order that will also extend the new minimum pay to...
The General Services Administration’s 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide acquisition contract for information technology support has received the “best-in-class” status for meeting the Office of Management and Budget’s performance standard for category management. “The 8(a) STARS GWAC program r...
Fearless, a Baltimore, Maryland-based digital services firm, has won a potential five-year, $120 million blanket purchase agreement from the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services to support modernization efforts across the government, Technical.ly reported Tuesday. The software firm will provide TTS offices and i...
Margie Graves, who served as the federal deputy chief information officer from March 2016 to December 2019, has joined IBM‘s (NYSE: IBM) Center for The Business of Government as a senior fellow. Her new role will center on research, public speaking and writing about various topics such as cloud computing, analytics, emerging technology and cyb...
TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 21, 2021 — ICF (Nasdaq: ICFI) will help the Social Security Administration build and maintain software applications as part of the agency’s business process automation project under a five-year, $20 million recompete contract, ExecutiveBiz reported Thursday. The company said July 14 it will incorporate the apps into t...
