Modernization
Apple Is Building an iPhone App for Vets' Medical Records
The tool, which connects directly to VA’s health record database, will roll out sometime this summer.
Modernization
Latest Technology Modernization Fund Award Will Support Governmentwide Payroll Project
With the seventh project award, the fund has just under $11 million left.
Modernization
White House CIO Needs Contractor to Help with App Development
The Office of the CIO put out a notice on a new five-year contract to assist with all sorts of application management needs.
Modernization
Trump signs order to accelerate AI development
The White House issued an executive order Feb. 11 directing federal agencies to invest more money and resources into the development and promotion of artificial intelligence technologies.
Modernization
MGT Act money goes to fix federal payroll
The Technology Management Fund is close to maxing out after a $20.7 million award to GSA's NewPay software-as-a-service payroll modernization.
Modernization
NASA Picks New Vendor For Renamed $2.9B IT Services Contract
The ACES contract is now NEST, with Leidos taking over the space agency’s central end user IT services contract.
Digital Government
OPM Announces Change In IT Leadership
The government’s human resources department is getting a new CIO and deputy.
Modernization
Library of Congress seeks system for 8PB audio-visual collection
The Library of Congress wants to replace one of the massive systems that manages its extensive collections of films, images and sound recordings.
Modernization
The government needs to be more like Netflix
To truly benefit from shared services and the cloud, agencies should be building a repository of "microservice" business routines.
Modernization
Cyber exercise shows need for closer federal-state coordination
A joint exercise in Houston last summer highlighted gaps in infrastructure protection.
Emerging Tech
Another Major DHS Contract Is Being Recompeted Through GSA
A $100 million U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services modernization and support opportunity will go to IT Schedule 70 contract holders.
Modernization
VA’s Health Record Overhaul Could Get Even More Expensive, Officials Say
The agency’s acting deputy secretary called the project’s $16 billion price-tag “an educated guess.”
Modernization
Vendors say EIS deadlines should shift because of shutdown
Deadlines for solicitations on the $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle may need to shift because impacts to buying agencies that were shuttered during the recent lapse in appropriations.
Modernization
DOD and VA consider an electronic health record czar
Lawmakers remain impatient for a single point of accountability for related efforts by Pentagon and the Department of Veterans Affairs to modernize electronic health records systems.
Modernization
Pentagon Pushes for Speed in Cloud Strategy
The Defense Department expects multiple providers to support the different kinds of clouds of its missions.
Modernization
Microsoft Introduces Cloud Offerings for Where Networks Aren’t
The company's offerings are to support disaster response and military efforts in remote or network-deprived locations.
Digital Government
GPO Has No Disaster Recovery Plan for Its Tech, Watchdog Says
If its IT infrastructure is taken offline, the agency could lose access to critical data.
Modernization
DOD's cloud strategy puts JEDI at the top
The Defense Department's long-awaited cloud strategy document places JEDI atop the cloud hierarchy as the organization's first line of computing.
Modernization
Advancing agency priorities in a divided Congress
While a divided Congress might appear to be a recipe for inactivity, there are bipartisan agency priorities that could get attention in the near term worth focusing on.
Modernization