The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy wants to gain a better understanding of how biometric technologies are being used across the government and private sector. In a request for information posted on the Federal Register website, the OSTP acknowledged that biometric technologies, including facial recognition, voice analysis, gait recognition, voice recognition and […]
The General Services Administration has selected Washington-based company Guidehouse to support federal offices and agencies in switching to zero-emission vehicles. Guidehouse will deploy mobility experts and management consultants to help the GSA Office of Fleet Management in supporting vehicle electrification efforts for various government entities. The team of experts will use in-house datasets, frameworks and […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs has enlisted the Institute for Defense Analysis to review and provide a full cost estimate of its electronic health record modernization program. The move comes after the VA’s failure to put a price tag on its EHR modernization initiative in line with a request from Congress. Initial estimates priced the […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs has awarded analytics company Palantir a four-year, $90 million contract to enhance the agency’s Common Operating Platform. The award expands the company’s work in the health and defense sector and is the first major contract the analytics provider secured from the VA. Under the contract, Palantir will provide new tools […]
OSI Systems, a specialized electronics maker, has been awarded a potential $390 million contract to deliver low-energy portal x-ray systems to Customs and Border Protection. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity deal has a five-year ordering period for systems and associated services, OSI Systems said Thursday. OSI Systems noted that the LEP award follows a previous IDIQ contract for […]
The Department of the Treasury inspector general said the Internal Revenue Service has failed to meet users’ expectations for a modernized enterprise case management system. The system in question still uses paper processes and includes over 60 different information technology systems for case management. According to an IG report, IRS employees who used the system […]
Palantir Technologies has secured a contract from the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences to continue supporting the centralized data enclave for COVID-19 clinical research. Work falls under a two-year, $59.5 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract and advances the National COVID Cohort Collaborative program. The N3C Data Enclave consolidates global COVID-19 health records, […]
Virginia-based ICF has been awarded a $31 million recompete contract by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide development, operations, and maintenance support to the nationwide syndromic surveillance platform, BioSense. The contract has a term of four years, including a one-year base and three one-year options, the company said. Under the contract, […]
Siemens Government Technologies has been awarded a contract worth over $1.78 million to provide technological expertise to the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats. Under the contract, SGT, with the help of its affiliate, Siemens Digital Industries, will implement advanced industrial software for digital design and an automated manufacturing production demonstration […]
Paul Brubaker, the deputy chief information officer for the Account Management Office at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said at a recent media roundtable that adopting a no-fail mindset has enabled the agency to address various technological demands amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to Brubaker, the agency was set on staying ahead of challenges, whether […]
