The Professional Services Council has found that the use of shared information technology services by federal agencies has jumped 2 percent each year since 2017, FedScoop reported Monday.
Read More »Navy Issues RFI for Cloud-Based Combat System Dev’t, Integration
The U.S. Navy is looking for potential sources that can help the service branch design and develop an integrated combat infrastructure for current and future surface vessels.
Read More »Affigent, Akima Subsidiary, Integrates Oracle Cloud Services to GSA Schedule 70; Carol Rivetti, Randy Zewe Quoted
Akima has announced that its subsidiary, Affigent, has integrated Oracle Cloud Software-as-a-Service and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure services to its General Services Administration MAS Contract under SIN 518210C, the company announced on Friday.
Read More »Tom Keane: Microsoft Azure Gov’t Secret Gets New Certifications
Microsoft has attained a new Department of Defense provisional authorization for a government-tailored platform designed to secure classified information.
Read More »ViON’s Rob Davies: IaaS Could Help Agencies Transition to Modern, Cloud-Centric Architecture
Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON and a previous Wash100 award winner, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that adopting an infrastructure-as-a-service model could help federal agencies upgrade to a flexible and secure infrastructure and meet modernization requirements.
Read More »Mythics to Offer Oracle Cloud Services, Hardware Products on GSA IT Schedule 70
A range of Oracle cloud service and computer hardware offerings has been added to Mythics' information technology portfolio for government customers under a General Services Administration contract vehicle.
Read More »CBP Requests Info on Commercial Cloud Partners
The Customs and Border Protection has issued a request for information on potential commercial partners that could help the agency manage its applications and information technology systems in the cloud, Bloomberg Government reported Wednesday.
Read More »ViON Unveils Online Marketplace for Dell EMC IaaS Offerings; Tom Frana Quoted
ViON has introduced an online platform built to help customers compare and procure a range of Dell EMC’s information technology infrastructure-as-a-service offerings.
Read More »TeamingPro Unveils Contractor Teammate Discovery Tool
TeamingPro has introduced automated technology platform built to help contracting firms identify potential industry partners in pursuit of federal contracts.
Read More »ECS Wins Spot on US Mint Digital Enterprise Services IDIQ; George Wilson Quoted
ECS has won a spot on a potential five-year, $70M contract for digital services to help the Department of the Treasury’s U.S. Mint agency modernize its information technology infrastructure. The U.S. Mint Digital Enterprise Services indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers cloud migration, data center consolidation, managed service delivery operations, software as a service, platform as a service, infrastructure as a service, ECS said Thursday.
Read More »Knight Point’s Cloud IaaS Platform Gets FedRAMP ATO From Coast Guard
The U.S. Coast Guard has granted Knight Point Systems an authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer the company’s infrastructure-as-a-service platform to government organizations. Reston, Va.-based Knight Point received ATO certification on May 22 for the CloudSeed IaaS offering designed to help federal clients …
Read More »State Department Kicks Off Cloud Services Market Research
The Department of State‘s information resource management bureau is conducting market research into infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service offerings as part of a cloud migration project. DOS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday IRM aims to migrate its information technology applications and services to cloud platforms authorized under the Federal Risk and Authorization …
Read More »IBM’s IaaS cloud platform gets DoD impact level 5 authorization
IBM has received provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host impact level 5 data of Defense Department and federal agency customers through a multitenant cloud computing platform. DISA said Tuesday it granted a 12-month PA to the company’s SmartCloud for Government infrastructure-as-a-service platform. SCG encompasses compute, memory, network, operating system and storage …
Read More »DLA Seeks Info on Financial Mgmt Program Hosting Systems
The Defense Logistics Agency has posted a request for information on commercial hosting platforms that can support an enterprise resource planning program designed to facilitate financial management functions across the Defense Department. DLA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice that it will consider cloud-based hosting solutions that could aid the migration of the …
Read More »Executive Spotlight: An Interview With Scott Price, GM of Microsoft’s National Security Group
To comment on Microsoft’s development of machine learning and cloud infrastructure, the usability of as-a-Service offerings and the widespread usage of artificial intelligence in the federal marketspace, ExecutiveBiz spoke with Microsoft’s Scott Price, General Manager of the company’s National Security Group. “Any agency leaning forward to drive artificial intelligence and …
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