Cloud

Helping Police Divert Mental Health Patients From ERs

A start-up wants to use a mobile app to allow clinicians and case workers to do remote patient evaluations when law enforcement officers respond to mental health calls.

  • By Dave Nyczepir

Cloud Computing Contributed $214 Billion to U.S. GDP in 2017

Exponential economic growth in the internet sector isn’t showing any signs of slowing down.

  • By Frank Konkel

IBM Launches ‘Watson-as-a-Service’ for Government

The company is making a version of its big-name artificial intelligence program available across any cloud provider.

  • By Jack Corrigan

What You Don’t Know About the Pentagon’s DEOS Contract

The Pentagon’s other multibillion cloud contract has gone through some major changes in the last year.

  • By Frank Konkel

Moving to the Cloud? You Need to Monitor Application Performance.

When a smartphone app doesn't work it's annoying. But when an agency app doesn't work, there can be consequences.

  • By Charles Fullwood

Pentagon Investigating Whether Amazon Employee Tilted JEDI Contract

The department’s investigation into potential conflicts of interest regarding the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract could push the award date back as much as three months.

  • By Frank Konkel

How the Government Plans to Modernize its Workforce

Cloud-based tools can help woo the next generation of public sector workers.

  • By Celeste O’Dea

DHS Seeks Industry Input as It Goes All-in for Cloud

The agency is moving to the cloud at fast clip but it wants feedback to ensure its strategy is sound.

  • By Frank Konkel

Judge Puts Hold on Lawsuit on Pentagon’s JEDI Cloud Contract

The battle over the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract just got more interesting.

  • By Frank Konkel

Get Ready for the Pentagon’s Big Cloud Buy

For the first time ever, the Defense Department is primed to spend over $2 billion on cloud computing in fiscal 2019.

  • By Nextgov Staff

DISA Announces a New Impact Level 5 Certification

PTC Cloud Services joins an elite group of cloud offerings to meet some of the Defense Department’s most stringent security requirements.

  • By Frank Konkel

Analysts: Federal IT Budget Could Top $93 Billion In 2020

Agencies are expected to spend more on cloud, digital services and artificial intelligence over the next 18 months.

  • By Aaron Boyd

Latest Technology Modernization Fund Award Will Support Governmentwide Payroll Project

With the seventh project award, the fund has just under $11 million left.

  • By Aaron Boyd

How the Pentagon is Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth

The Army Research Lab is funding tech that could put the computing power of the cloud in the hands of individual soldiers—and ultimately bring more artificial intelligence to the battlefield.

  • By Jack Corrigan

Rethinking Data Center Optimization with a Service Mentality

These updates can make a real impact if agencies take the right steps.

  • By Cameron Chehreh

Pentagon Pushes for Speed in Cloud Strategy

The Defense Department expects multiple providers to support the different kinds of clouds of its missions.

  • By Frank Konkel

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.

  • By Frank Konkel

Draft Solicitation for Multibillion DEOS Contract Released

Industry responses are due Feb. 15.

  • By Frank Konkel

Critical Update: 3 Major Programs to Watch in 2019

To wrap season two, we run down three programs with high stakes for the agencies in play, as well as the rest of government.

  • By Nextgov Staff

Agencies Spent Record $64.7B on IT Contracts in 2018

Some agencies saw double-digit growth in pursuit of modern systems.

  • By Frank Konkel