Grant Thornton’s public sector business and the Partnership for Public Service organization have published a report that proposes a multifaceted approach for federal agency leaders to modernize operations with the use of data and evidence. The report, titled “Seize the Data: Using Evidence to Transform how Federal Agencies do Business," was based on interviews and workshops that took place from April 2018 to May 2019.

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Accenture’s federal services business and the Partnership for Public Service have released an issue brief that calls on government agencies to adopt three strategies in order to change the way they deliver services to citizens. Kathy Conrad, director of digital government at Accenture Federal Services, wrote in a guest piece posted Wednesday on Government Executive that […] More

Isobar Public Sector and Google Cloud have teamed up to provide public sector customers with artificial intelligence/machine learning, data analytics and other cloud-based capabilities. As Google Cloud's authorized service partner, Isobar will bring cutting-edge offerings to federal, state and local government clients.

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Cisco and General Dynamics’ information technology business have teamed up to provide private 5G platforms and services to government agencies. Cisco will combine its Private 5G service with General Dynamics Information Technology’s expertise in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, internet of things and edge computing and understanding of customer mission and use cases to deliver an end-to-end […] More

DLT Solutions has entered into an agreement with cybersecurity firm Ubiq to market the latter’s digital data security offerings to public sector clients.

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A new Accenture report says 66 percent of technology leaders in public service agencies said they are willing to adopt public-private partnerships and new commercial frameworks to facilitate the delivery of services to citizens. Accenture said Thursday the Emerging Technologies in Public Service report is based on an online survey of 774 public service professionals across nine […] More

CA Technologies and Science Applications International Corp. have partnered to offer information technology services to help public-sector clients address IT management issues. The agreement allows SAIC to use CA’s Unified Infrastructure Management platform to deliver IT managed services in the government market, the companies said Thursday. CA designed UIM for service providers and enterprise customers […] More

NASA has selected nine companies to conduct a total of 12 studies on the feasibility of using commercial services, such as payload delivery, payload hosting, communications relay and surface imaging, to support future science missions to Mars. The Mars Exploration Commercial Services research program focuses on four categories: small payload delivery and hosting services, large […] More

Carahsoft Technology will distribute the quantum cybersecurity services of Australian company QuintessenceLabs to its government clients. The services provide quantum-resilient technical measures critical for a strong cyber defense, including quantum random number generation and key distribution as well as encryption key and policy management, Carahsoft said Tuesday. “Threat actors – particularly nation states – are stealing data […] More

Deloitte, in partnership with Google Public Sector, has launched a generative artificial intelligence tool designed to serve as an enhanced central hub for government-related resources, support and services. The company said Tuesday it uses Google’s multimodal AI model called Gemini to power the Elevating Digital Government Experiences platform to employ multi-lingual, channel-agnostic and intuitive conversational capabilities. EDGE […] More

CGI Federal has begun a new initiative that focuses on the power of technology to work in concert with people to bring about the services and solutions the citizenry demands from the federal government.

The Fed Future 2030 campaign was launched last week in a multimedia deluge: a video series, a podcast and a flipbook all work to explicate CGI Federal’s goals for the next six years, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company told ExecutiveBiz.

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Verizon Business has partnered with NASA to enable the space agency to deliver a live broadcast of the solar eclipse set to take place on April 8. The partnership, which saw support from Leidos, involves the provisioning of a 1 gigabyte E-line service connecting the John Glenn Space Center to the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Verizon said Friday.

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