AT&T will deliver IBM‘s mobile device management platform to the Interior Department to help DOI protect and manage 27,000 mobile devices. AT&T, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, said Tuesday it will provide IBM’s Maas360 mobile device management platform to DOI as an authorized reseller. Mike Leff, vice president of AT&T’s global public sector business …
Read More »DOI Wants Info on Voice Comm Service Offerings
The Interior Department has asked industry for ideas on how to maintain voice communication services across DOI facilities as federal agencies prepare to transition to the General Services Administration‘s Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions procurement vehicle. DOI seeks ways to continue voice services that are currently provided through GSA’s Networx, Washington Interagency Telecommunications 3 and Local Services Agreement …
Read More »Acendre to Help Fish & Wildlife Service Implement Automated Employee Performance Mgmt System
Acendre has secured a contract to provide a technology platform for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to automate the agency’s employee performance management process. FWS intends to use the Acendre Performance platform to conduct performance appraisals and publish the results of those assessments online as well as auto-populate the Interior Department‘s Employee Performance Appraisal plan. “In …
Read More »Interior Dept to Issue Solicitation for Network Remote Access Device Blanket Purchase Agreement
The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service plans to release a solicitation for proposals on June 17 for a potential $10 million blanket purchase agreement the agency will use to procure network remote access systems and services. FWS said in a notice posted Wednesday on FedbizOpps the five-year BPA will also …
Read More »Exelis Secures Interior Dept Contract for Geospatial Image Analysis Software; Stuart Blundell Comments
A subsidiary of Exelis has been awarded a blanket purchase agreement by the Interior Department for its geospatial image analysis software. Exelis Visual Information Solutions will provide ENVI software and related maintenance services for the federal agency under the BPA, which has a one-year base period and four one-year options, …
Read More »Verizon Selected for $10B Interior Cloud Program; Susan Zeleniak Comments
Verizon is one of 10 vendors that have won potential $1 billion contracts from the Interior Department for cloud-hosting services over the next decade. DOI intends for the cloud computing infrastructure to serve nearly 70,000 employees at more than 2,400 locations in the country, Verizon said Friday. Susan Zeleniak, senior vice president …
Read More »IBM Wins $1B Interior Cloud Transition IDIQ; Anne Altman Comments
IBM has been selected for a $1 billion contract for services intended to support the U.S. Department of Interior’s 10-year transition to a cloud-based, variable information technology infrastructure. DOI, which has 16 divisions and agencies that spend more than $1 billion every year to manage IT resources, has a five-year …
Read More »Autonomic Resources Wins $1B Interior Dept Cloud IDIQ; John Keese Comments
Autonomic Resources has won a potential $1 billion contract to provide cloud services to the Interior Department for managing business transactions in the public and private sectors. Booz Allen Hamilton and Red Hat developed systems that work to help DOI use Amazon and Microsoft applications under the 10-year contract vehicle, Autonomic …
Read More »CIBER Wins Contract to Help Implement DOI Business, Financial Management System
CIBER Federal has won a 30-month subcontract with Delta Solutions and Technologies, Inc. to provide the U.S. Interior Department with business and financial management system support. The contract calls for CIBER to help the Bureau of Reclamation‘s Management Services Office implement the DOI’s financial and business management system. DOI indicated that FBMS will replace legacy …
Read More »Department of Interior not Cyber Secure
The Inspector General at the Department of Interior has failed the agency in an audit assessing cyber security. The audit claims that the current efforts by the DOI are well short of established minimums in for federal agencies. The report highlighted a number of issues at the agency, including less …
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