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Ace Info Solutions has won a position on a potential five-year, $450M blanket purchase agreement to provide information technology services for the Department of Agriculture.

TYSONS CORNER, VA, July 16, 2020 — ASRC Federal helped the Department of Agriculture develop and implement an online application process for rural businesses that seek grants under the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program, ExecutiveBiz reported July 8.

Brillient has secured a single-award, $112 million blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Agriculture, the company announced Monday. "We are extremely pleased to bring our strong digital transformation and agile development capabilities coupled with our expertise in electronic records management to assist the USDA in this important mission area,” said Paul Strasser, CEO of Brillient.

House lawmakers have proposed to allocate an additional $1B for the Technology Modernization Fund as part of the proposed HEROES Act to back information technology transformation initiatives in support of domestic and overseas COVID-19 prevention, preparation and response efforts, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday.

Susie Adams, chief technology officer at Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT), said cloud helps advance artificial intelligence by enabling data analysis and sharing to improve mission outcomes. "Cloud technology has given us vast capacity for data storage and nearly unlimited compute capacity to take advantage of AI, which is democratizing the ability for end users, not just data scientists, to build and run machine learning algorithms," Adams wrote.

The General Services Administration and the Food and Drug Administration have partnered to support FDA’s information technology modernization efforts through GSA’s Centers of Excellence initiative.

Rory Schultz, a 35-year federal government veteran, has joined Salient CRGT as executive director of strategic programs within the civilian services group, the company announced on Tuesday.

Rob Stein, senior vice president for North America public sector at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), has said the adoption of cloud could help government agencies deliver improved services to citizens and carry out their missions. “Cloud can co-exist with legacy infrastructure to unlock data that resides in back-office systems, deliver it across the enterprise and provide the agility needed to make it highly applicable to just about any mission need,” Stein wrote.

Chad Sheridan, a senior official at the Department of Agriculture's Farm Production and Conservation Business Center, will leave USDA by the end of this month to join information technology and management consulting services provider NetImpact Strategies, FedScoop reported Wednesday.

Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) has received a five-year contract to craft a robotic process automation roadmap and manage the life cycle of RPA tools for the Department of Agriculture.