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The Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate awarded over $1.5M to Corner Alliance for the development of a new emergency guidance planning app. The Federal Emergency Management Agency's website would feature the Alerts, Warnings and Notifications guidance tool that would offer best practices, customized resources and templates for emergency planning and readiness efforts, DHS said Tuesday.

Steve Orrin, chief technology officer at Intel’s federal arm, and Cameron Chehreh, CTO of Dell Technologies’ federal business, wrote in a joint article published Friday on Nextgov that federal agencies should look at hybrid cloud not as a destination but as an operating model to realize the benefits of artificial intelligence and 5G. 

New Light Technologies has received a contract to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Response Geospatial Office build and integrate systems in support of a data analytics architecture implementation project.

Concurrent Technologies Corp. has received a one-year, $3.6M contract extension to support the Federal Emergency Management Agency's electronic platform for managing identities, credentials and facility access of agency personnel who respond to critical situations.

MetTel has secured a contract to provide managed cellular network communications services to government agencies throughout Massachusetts. The company said Thursday it will serve as a wireless services provider to the state's public sector over a five-year contract period that includes potential renewals.

A joint venture between The Informatics Applications Group and Saliense has won a three-year blanket purchase agreement to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency protect information systems against cyberattacks.

Michael Baker International has received a subcontract from North Wind Resource Consulting to help the Federal Emergency Management Agency process requests from property owners who seek to determine whether they should buy or maintain flood insurance.

The Department of Defense has awarded contract actions worth $36.9M combined to Rolls-Royce and aircraft fuel technology provider Amfuel in a move to drive domestic production at the industrial-base level.

Raytheon Technologies' Collins Aerospace business has been selected to provide a backup system to support  Federal Emergency Management Agency communications in the event of a critical situation.

Battelle has begun final production activities for the last batch of N95 mask decontamination technology intended to address the Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Emergency Management Agency’s urgent needs.

AECOM has set up a temporary healthcare facility that would support COVID-19 relief efforts in Larimer County, Colo., under a contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

Jeff Talley, vice president of global public sector at IBM, said there is a need for a more streamlined data-driven platform that could help government agencies and private sector entities respond to hurricane-related disasters during the coronavirus pandemic by allowing them to “visualize a common operating picture,” Nextgov reported Tuesday.

Battelle has been awarded a potential $400M contract by the Defense Logistics Agency on behalf of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Federal Emergency Management Agency to decontaminate N95 respirator masks to be deployed across 60 sites, the company announced on Friday.

The Department of Defense has invested $265M to date in industrial partnerships that aim to address the COVID-19 pandemic as well as issued memos for payment and scheduling of contract work.

Robert Shea, a Grant Thornton principal, told Government Matters in an interview posted Tuesday about the challenges and the need for technology in response to the coronavirus pandemic. "One of the things I think we’ve learned is that we need to be pretty practised at what flexibilities agencies need to offer to their federal and contractor workforces,” he said. “Technology is a key enabler and will need to be in place in the future.”