Modernization
A big-ticket vendor merger hits EIS
The Harris-L3 merger won't significantly impact the $50 billion federal Enterprise Infrastructure Services contract, the companies report.
Digital Government
Government Contractors Harris and L3 Announce Merger
The two contractors will create a $33.5 billion company.
Modernization
Microsoft workers urge company to pass on JEDI
Citing ethical concerns, a group identifying itself as "Employees of Microsoft" want the tech giant to forego bids on the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud procurement.
Emerging Tech
GSA’s Tech Teams Increasingly Important to Administration’s Tech Priorities
18F and the Technology Transformation Services face a more certain future than just two years ago.
Modernization
Agencies Can’t Dine and Dash on Technology Modernization Fund, Official Says
Awards are an advance, not a grant, and the program office has ways to make sure the fund stays solvent.
Modernization
Excellence begins at home, TTS chief says
Agencies don't have to depend on the General Services Administration to design and launch their own internal Centers of Excellence-like programs to support modernization.
Emerging Tech
DHS Funds Airport Navigation App that Guides You from Check-in to Gate
It also allows federal agencies to send messages to passengers in real time.
Modernization
Agencies pivot as EIS focuses on modernization
The $50 billion governmentwide telecommunications contract Enterprise Infrastructure Services began life as a like-for-like upgrade under the Obama administration, and agencies are playing catch-up as the White House looks to use the vehicle as a modernization tool.
Modernization
Pentagon, VA Leaders Commit to Boosting Accountability in Health Record Overhaul
Both secretaries pledged to re-examine the multibillion-dollar program’s organization structure and timelines.
Modernization
IBM protests JEDI cloud deal
As the deadline to submit bids on the Pentagon's $10 billion, 10-year warfighter cloud deal draws near, IBM announced a legal protest.
Modernization
IBM Files Bid Protest Against Pentagon’s JEDI Contract
IBM becomes the second company to file a pre-award bid protest against the Pentagon’s multibillion cloud contract.
Modernization
Army rethinks network design
Leaders of the Army's Network Cross-Functional Team highlighted a two-year plan to design a new integrated tactical network through experiment and rapid prototyping.
Modernization
Microsoft's classified cloud to go online in early 2019
As the deadline for vendors responding to the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud buy nears, Microsoft announced its classified offering will go live in time to handle the business – should it win.
Modernization
Microsoft to Host the Government’s Classified Data Early Next Year
The software giant made a slew of announcements Tuesday that indicate how seriously it is targeting government business, especially cloud computing.
Modernization
DHS Digital Service is Taking Paper Out of the Immigration Process
The Digital Service works side by side with agency employees to tackle some of their most backlogged processes.
Modernization
DHS sets two-pronged approach to EIS adoption
The Homeland Security CIO looks to "like for like" and cutting-edge telecom transition plans under EIS.
Modernization
24 Companies Join VA’s Health Record Modernization Team
Cerner Corp. announces a lengthy list of subcontractors for the multi-billion dollar project.
Digital Government
Oracle Continues Protest Push Against JEDI
Another legal maneuver by Oracle just a week before bids for the Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract are due.
Modernization
Broadband Access Lags on Tribal Lands, Study Finds
More than a third of Americans residing on tribal land lack high-speed internet access.
Cybersecurity