In today's Federal Newscast: After eight years of double and triple billing DoD for genetic tests, LabCorp pays a $2.1 million settlement. An IRS watchdog says the agency's uncollected taxes estimate in not clear enough. And House Democrats want to create another investment option for TSP participants.
The Defense Department is looking at 2025 as a milestone to make better use of artificial intelligence.
The Biden administration is setting a high bar to improve customer experience across government, but the VA’s National Cemetery Administration is already at the top of the charts, according to one scorecard.
Dave Lago, a product manager for DISA's Hosting and Compute Center, said the Vulcan tool set includes several commercial software capabilities to help DoD modernize software.
Since January, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) has been running a highly classified version of a very popular consumer platform. DISA completed functional testing of what it calls DOD-365-Sec, a secure version of Microsoft Office 365, a cloud-hosted suite of common products.
Cloud computing is not a simple matter when working across thousands of miles of complicated geography, especially when there’s no guaranteed network connection. We talk with three Army colonels about pilots aimed at achieving tactical cloud.
Improving Defense business systems though cloud technologies is a big goal for DoD, but it’s not as though the concept is unproven. Here’s what two program managers who were early cloud adopters have learned so far.
The National Security Agency is continuing its cloud journey across multiple fronts, including the Hybrid Compute Initiative, which aims to align compute solution to mission. We get details from Deputy CIO Jennifer Kron during the DoD Cloud Exchange.
It’s not enough to adopt and blend a variety of cloud presences. The on-premise environments must also behave like the cloud, USSOCOM’s chief technical officer explains to Tom Temin during the 2023 DoD Cloud Exchange.
As space fills its ranks with cyber and satellite specialists, it has to build out its training abilities.
One of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s chief priorities is modernizing JWICS, which agencies governmentwide rely on for top-secret communications. DIA’s Johanna “Jojo” Leasiolagi discusses ways the agency wants to use modern cloud services.
The opportunities for software as a service vendors in the Defense Department and Intelligence Community’s classified environments continue to emerging, explains Okta’s Sabrina Lea at the DoD Cloud Exchange.
The Defense Department has unique challenges to overcome to bring artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to warfighters in the field, not the least of which are devices and bandwidth, explain IBM’s Mark Johnson and Octo’s Rob Albritton.
The Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act — the PACT Act — became law a few months ago. It brought an expansion of services available to veterans and drew more veterans into eligibility.
Given zero trust’s multiple pillars, players and tech elements, Akamai Defense’s Dave Zukowski suggests intense governance can help ensure collaboration and reduce duplicative effort. He talks with our Jory Heckman during the DoD Cloud Exchange.