Government Cloud

The Defense Information Systems Agency’s Procurement Services Directorate and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are seeking information on standardized metrics to streamline service level agreements for commercial cloud contracts. DISA posted a request for information Friday calling for industry feedback on efforts to create a catalog of metrics for accessibility, availability, performance, service reliability, […] More

Microsoft has made its Azure Stack hybrid cloud offering available to Azure Government cloud platform users. Natalia Mackevicius, program director for Azure Stack, wrote in a blog entry posted Monday the Azure Stack for Azure Government offering seeks to help government clients comply with data requirements by providing them access to the same set of DevOps tools, […] More

Mark Forman, global public sector head at Unisys, has said government agencies should hone employees’ information technology skills to carry out IT modernization efforts. He wrote in a Nextgov opinion piece published Monday that IT professionals can serve as potential agents of change as agencies increasingly move toward “server-less” and “cloud native” computing systems. Instead of […] More

The Department of Veterans Affairs has started seeking a contractor that can migrate VA mobile applications and their associated services into an operational cloud system. A FedBizzOps notice posted Wednesday says the contractor will be required to transfer 20 to 30 mobile responsive web applications to the VA Mobile Application Cloud Migration system, which will […] More

Cubic‘s transportation systems business will collaborate with Delerrok to offer cloud-based electronic ticketing systems to transit agencies under an investment and alliance agreement. The partnership seeks to integrate Delerrok’s TouchPass electronic fare collection technology with Cubic’s Transit Management as a Service platform in an effort to help operators simplify the ticketing process through a pay-as-you-go […] More

AT&T and RapidDeploy have partnered to offer a cloud-based technology platform for  public-safety answering points obtain information in real time in the event of a critical situation. The partnership seeks to connect PSAPs to RapidDeploy’s computer-aided dispatch platform through a virtual private network in an effort to help dispatchers receive data from multiple connected devices […] More

DLT Solutions has signed an agreement to distribute Red Hat‘s enterprise-grade products in Amazon Web Services‘ GovCloud marketplace for government organizations and regulated industries. DLT said Thursday it has collaborated with Red Hat over the past four years in efforts to help customer agencies adopt cloud technology and will offer the latter’s technologies via DLT managed services for the […] More

The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a request for white papers for a cloud-based data storage and analytics platform, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday. In the first phase of the effort, the service will use the prototype to assess data collected from Deployable Mission Support Systems. The Marine Corps will then develop more data analytics models, expand […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency seeks information on potential industry sources of cloud implementation services for a Defense Department cybersecurity program. DISA said Monday in a FedBizOpps notice it wants to determine the availability and technical capacity of companies to provide cloud infrastructure-as-a-service support to the Acropolis program. Acropolis works to protect, consolidate and integrate defensive cyber operations data from the DoD […] More