The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the first two contracts of its Commercial Weather Data Pilot program.
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The United States Office of Personnel Management announced four contracts with CACI Premier Technology; CSRA; KeyPoint Government Solutions; and Securitas Critical Infrastructure Services.
Phase 2 of NASA’s Small Business Technology Transfer program has begun.
The Sierra Nevada Corporation of Louisville, Colo., will be supporting NASA’s first U.S. asteroid sample return mission.
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Dell Technologies completed a merger with EMC, an IT storage provider. The acquisition places Dell Technologies, which consists of Dell, Dell EMC, Pivotal, RSA, SecureWorks, Virtustream and VMware, as a $74 billion market leader.
The National Center for Atmospheric Research selected Juniper Networks to provide infrastructure for a new supercomputer that will perform 5.34 quadrillion calculations per second. This new supercomputer will be installed at NCAR’s Wyoming Supercomputing Center this fall; it will be operational in 2017.
Over the course of 24 months, six tech companies will build a habitat suitable for humans to live in on Mars under NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships-2 (NextSTEP-2).
Federal spending on contractor-supplied IT products and services will decline slightly from $99.8 billion in fiscal year 2016 to $98.3 billion in FY 2021, according to a recent report from Deltek.
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If a company gets hit with ransomware, don’t pay the ransom, said Kevin Haley, director of product management and security response at Symantec.
The Department of Homeland Security has expanded its Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Tools Blanket Purchase Agreement with the inclusion of Imperva’s Web application and database firewalls. […]
In the five years since the government has encouraged agencies to transition to the cloud, spending on cloud-based technologies has increased to about 9 percent, which is a good pace, according to Tom Ruff, vice president of Public Sector America at Akamai.
Cisco and Fortinet are working to fix their security software after the alleged hack on the National Security Agency earlier this week.
Unisys announced a $232 million award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for cloud and application modernization services. Unisys will support USDA’s Rural Development Comprehensive Loan Program.
Intel released its Intel Silicon Photonics 100G optical transceivers, which allow companies and cloud service providers to transfer data between data centers at up to 100 gigabit per second over several kilometers using fiber optic links.
With a growing majority of students balancing school and other adult responsibilities, it’s no surprise that many employers are beginning to beef up their educational benefits. From free or reduced tuition to flexible time off for classes, employers are making it easier for students to work and earn their bachelor’s degree.
Nlyte software company created a Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) module to help agencies report on their progress and an Energy Optimizer to help data centers run at peak efficiency.
Federal agencies can now move their Red Hat subscriptions between physical or on-premises systems to both Microsoft Azure and Azure Government cloud platforms.
Intel announced its 3D XPoint technology and 3D NAND technology, which will help increase memory and storage capabilities in the cloud.
They’re not exactly “Wolverine” and “Rogue” of the X-Men fictional superhero franchise, but IBM is betting on its new X-Force Red unit of world-class cybersecurity experts to help the company continue the expansion of its security consulting and services business. The company announced that X-Force Red will consist of hundreds of security experts based in dozens of locations around the world.
Hitachi announced the creation of a data management system and technology for parallel data processing that, when tested, increased the speed of data analytics by up to 100 times.
The National Security Agency gave Unisys Stealth the National Information Assurance Partnership certification, which means the company has met the standards of more than 20 countries to protect secure information and systems.
Technological capability in government is on the decline, according to Silicon Valley entrepreneur Peter Thiel.
He spoke in support of nominee Donald Trump at the Republican National Convention and addressed the disparities between government and Silicon Valley when it comes to technological innovation.