Emerging Tech
DHS Wants Self-Service Stations for Airport Security
The tech would allow passengers to screen themselves and skip lengthy lines at today’s security checkpoints.
Digital Government
GSA Extends Bid Deadline for E-Commerce Platform
The agency also answered some pressing questions, such as whether vendors need to have an online store up and running before they bid.
Modernization
Oracle pushes ahead with JEDI appeal
After Microsoft's win in the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud contract, Oracle is still looking for a court to force the contract to be rebid.
Modernization
VA Stands Up Private, Virtual Exam Rooms to Bring Telehealth to Rural Communities
The agency is collaborating with corporate partners to provide veterans with comfortable, private spaces to have video appointments with their VA providers, much closer to home.
Emerging Tech
Top 60 Finalists For FBI’s Major IT Services Recompete Will Be Announced Soon
The bureau has taken its time crafting the next central IT services contract. But contracting officers say the process is moving toward the finish.
Modernization
DISA starts Fourth Estate IT consolidation
The Defense Information Systems Agency has begun setup to move its clients to DODNet, a new single service network for support defense agencies and field activities.
Modernization
Local government key to 5G for feds
As advanced 5G wireless services spread out from large metro areas in the coming years, telecom carriers advise federal agencies with far-flung locations to work with local governments to get connected.
Modernization
DOD sets 5G test sites
The Defense Department named five bases around the country to test emerging high speed 5G network applications.
Emerging Tech
Deploying Bots Demands Workforce Buy-in
Agency officials detailed an important lesson they learned when implementing robotic process automation.
Digital Government
GAO: Workforce Planning Across Government Isn’t Going as Planned
A review showed most federal agencies are implementing parts of GAO’s workforce planning framework while others are ignored due to competing priorities and leadership turnover.
Digital Government
Social Security Ends Telework Program for 12,000 Employees
Workers in all of the Social Security Administration’s operations components have less than two weeks to find alternate arrangements.
Artificial Intelligence
DISA Is Looking to Buy AI-Powered Cyber Defenses
The tools would use automation and machine learning to respond to common cyberattacks without any human intervention, freeing personnel to focus on more complex intrusions.
Modernization
Pentagon Tech Chief Defends Integrity of JEDI Award
The White House had no sway over the $10 billion JEDI cloud computing contract that the Defense Department awarded Microsoft, according to Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy.
Modernization
Agency Spending on Outsourced IT Nearly Doubled in Fiscal 2019
Only a portion of that was directly spent on cloud services.
Modernization
Cloud, TBM reshaping federal IT
According to a trade group forecast, the move to cloud is leading agencies away from shared services.
Modernization
DOD CIO 'very confident' that White House influence didn't guide JEDI award
At his Senate confirmation hearing, Defense Department CIO Dana Deasy said the department's $10 billion cloud contract was awarded by a team of experts.
Modernization
After 30 Years, the Last State Finally Automated Its Child Support System
South Carolina struggled for decades to switch from manual process run by counties to a largely automated system run by the state.
Modernization
First Small Business Gets Cleared to Accept Task Orders on GSA’s $50B Telecom Contract
The first of three small businesses on the Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract got its authority to operate, giving agencies an option outside the big telecom offerors.
Digital Government
GSA Wants Industry Insights on Offering Human-Centered Design Services
Responses to the new request for information will impact future procurement actions, the agency said.
Modernization