Government Cloud

General Dynamics has been awarded a $15 million contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory to prototype cloud-based threat detection and analysis software as part of efforts to automate the process for threat assessments. AFRL’s intelligence analysts will use the platform to correlate geospatial and signals intelligence, cyber indicator and warning data streams, General Dynamics said Thursday. General Dynamics’ mission systems unit will design, […] More

TechnoMile has introduced a set of cloud-based applications designed to help government contractors track contracts and task orders, collaborate with government agencies and collect data on agency spending. The GovCon Suite is built on Salesforce’s App Cloud platform and works to help federal contractors manage and integrate intelligence data, contracts and capture processes, TechnoMile said […] More

Vencore has selected the cloud platform offering of talent management firm Saba Software to speed up the company’s human resource development efforts in a move to sustain business delivery to federal clients. Saba Cloud has led to several benefits for Vencore such as a 97 percent compliance rate in delivery and tracking through Saba’s cloud-based […] More

Accenture has obtained Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for a cloud-based enterprise resource planning system designed for government customers. The company said Tuesday it helped the National Science Foundation implement and migrate NSF’s new financial system to Accenture’s Federal Cloud ERP platform. David Moskovitz, chief executive of Accenture’s federal services business, said the FedRAMP certification will help the company to […] More

A new IDC report has highlighted the role system integrators play in helping the federal government transition to digital platforms through the 3rd platform technologies mobility, cloud, big data and analytics and social business. The report evaluates the system integrators’ relationship with each other and with the factors the report finds conducive to government digital […] More

Microsoft Corp. has introduced a pricing calculator designed to help government  customers to estimate the cost of using the company’s Azure cloud computing platform. Spenser Bullock, Azure Government blog manager, wrote in an article published Tuesday that customer agencies can choose two US Gov regions that Microsoft has added to the pricing tool and calculate their monthly bill. He […] More

Sipree has made its financial technology offering available to federal customers through Amazon Web Services‘ U.S. government public cloud in an effort to help agencies  manage digital payments. Sipree’s software-as-a-service platform has been introduced to the AWS GovCloud (US), a region designed to host data and workloads in the cloud, Sipree said Wednesday. The company developed its platform to serve as a gateway […] More

Justin Chua, cloud leader at IBM‘s Institute for Business Value, has said a new IBV study highlights several factors that organizations may want to consider if they opt to migrate information technology functions into cloud infrastructure. Chua wrote in a blog article published Sept. 1 that companies must first decide what application to move to the cloud and address transition roadblocks when […] More

VMware has said Amway, iGov Technologies and SugarCreek will deploy the VMware Virtual SAN hyperconverged service to run business-critical applications and virtual desktop infrastructure. The technology works to support shared storage for virtualized production environments that can scale out to several server providers, VMware said Tuesday. Michigan-based Amway transitioned 300 application servers, databases and other workloads to Virtual SAN. Systems integrator and value-added reseller […] More

Securiport has entered an agreement with Amazon Web Services as a technology partner to develop, deploy and test various immigration control services and internal research and development projects through the AWS Cloud. Washington, D.C.-based Securiport said Friday it will utilize its Amazon Partner Network membership and AWS resources to build and test new cloud technology in a controlled […] More

The General Services Administration‘s Joint Authorization Board has asked for public comment in aid of ongoing efforts to finalize a criteria on how GSA will select vendors to provisionally authorize in support of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Matt Goodrich, FedRAMP director, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday the move is in response to suggestions from […] More

Acquia has used Amazon Web Services‘ Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program vendor package to achieve a FedRAMP authority-to-operate designation and obtain permission to sell cloud computing services in the public sector. AWS said Monday Acquia’s cloud platforms were assessed at the moderate impact level through the sponsorship of the Treasury Department. Acquia achieved FedRAMP ATO in April for […] More