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Maximus Augments State Agencies to Provide UI/PUA Support During COVID-19; Bruce Caswell Quoted
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Maximus Augments State Agencies to Provide UI/PUA Support During COVID-19; Bruce Caswell Quoted

Maximus has announced that the company will augment state agencies to help answer questions, support initial claims processing and support the adjudication of Unemployment Insurance (UI) and Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) claims, the company reported on Tuesday.

“Every day, our goal at Maximus is to help citizens connect to the vital services they need from government agencies,” said Bruce Caswell, president and CEO, Maximus and 2020 Wash100 Award recipient. “Our work with states is focused on ensuring these citizens quickly get access to the benefits they deserve and drastically cutting down on the backlog of unanswered claims.”

Maximus will work to support multiple states by providing additional support for the increase in UI and PUA claims. The company’s services will increase the speed of handling cases that have inundated state programs and their contact centers.

In Idaho, Maximus will assist the Idaho Department of Labor by assisting individuals with their applications, and reducing hold times for callers. The company will also support the Louisiana State Workforce Commission by supporting them with the UI and PUA application process.

“We’ve been able to assist states by deploying nearly 2,650 work-from-home agents to support unemployment programs since March, with the majority of these programs launched in less than a week,” said Caswell. “These efforts were made possible because we were able to launch and scale turnkey, omnichannel citizen engagement through a virtualized platform.”

About Maximus

Since 1975, Maximus has operated under its founding mission of Helping Government Serve the People®, enabling citizens around the globe to successfully engage with their governments at all levels and across a variety of health and human services programs. 

Maximus delivers innovative business process management and technology solutions that contribute to improved outcomes for citizens and higher levels of productivity, accuracy, accountability, and efficiency of government-sponsored programs. With more than 35,000 employees worldwide, Maximus is a proud partner to government agencies in the United States, Australia, Canada, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. 

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CVP Secures BPA to Support NIH Technical Services & Programs; Anirudh Kulkarni Quoted
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CVP Secures BPA to Support NIH Technical Services & Programs; Anirudh Kulkarni Quoted

CVP has been awarded the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Mission Alignment (MA) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) contract vehicle to support scientific research missions across NIH with IT programs and technical services, communications and business solutions, and cybersecurity and risk management, the company reported on Tuesday.

“We look forward to applying our health care and advanced technology expertise toward helping to advance biomedical research and promoting health, treatment, and medical cures,” said Anirudh Kulkarni, founder and CEO of CVP. 

Under the contract, CVP will include program and project management, system architecture and design, software development lifecycle management, subject matter expertise, community outreach and cybersecurity management and training to support the organization.

The award will enable CVP to expand its work across all NIH institutes and centers by applying its IT expertise through Business Transformation, Technology Modernization, Cybersecurity and High-Performance Computing.

CVP secured the award through the NIH Center for Information Technology (CIT). The center  has provided the NIH community with a secure and reliable IT infrastructure and a variety of IT services to support mission-critical research and administration.

CVP’s work will enhance the NIH’s ability to leverage costs across the organization to share communications and outreach, which will strengthen alignment between the agency’s mission and IT resources. “CVP is honored to have been awarded this contract vehicle,” Kulkarni added.

About CVP 

CVP is a business and technology consulting company that helps organizations navigate disruption with innovative strategies and solutions and prepare for a culture of Continuous Change. It supports clients in the healthcare, national security, and public sectors, as well as private business, by enabling them to innovate faster and make decisions quicker.

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Kronos Workforce Institute Names Chris Mullen as Executive Director; Joyce Maroney Quoted
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Kronos Workforce Institute Names Chris Mullen as Executive Director; Joyce Maroney Quoted

Kronos’ Workforce Institute has appointed Chris Mullen as executive director to succeed founder Joyce Maroney, who will retire at the end of June, the company reported on Tuesday. He will assume the role on July 1, 2020, bringing more than 15 years of experience as an Human Resources (HR) leader and practitioner. 

“The founding and cultivation of The Workforce Institute at Kronos has truly been one of the highlights and great privileges of my career…I am pleased to welcome Chris as the Institute’s new leader and look forward to reading the team’s inspired work – this time, from afar,” Maroney said. 

Mullen currently serves on the Workforce Institute advisory board and is director of human capital management (HCM) strategic advisory services at the company. Mullen also founded Elevate Yourself in 2012, where he will continue to provide executive leadership coaching, organization development and training to a range of companies from non-profits to higher education and entrepreneurs.

Prior to his role at Kronos, Mullen served as director of HR for Housing and Dining Services at the University of Colorado, where he managed the HR needs of more than 2,000 employees, following his role as assistant director for recruitment and selection in the Office of Equal Opportunity at Colorado State University.

With Colorado State University, Mullen was also responsible for effective human resources policies and practices, strong and efficient hiring practices, leadership development, diversity and equity, employee safety education and organizational development efforts.

As assistant director for Recruitment and Selection with Colorado State University, Mullen monitored the University’s search and hiring process for faculty and administrative professional positions to ensure good faith efforts are continually undertaken in compliance with the Affirmative Action program and the University’s equal access/ equal employment opportunity policies.

“I am truly humbled to be continuing the leadership role Joyce established and carried out so masterfully. Joyce’s work building the Institute is inspiring. The impressive group of talented individuals that make up The Workforce Institute at Kronos represents such an important voice for the industry,” said Mullen. 

About Kronos Incorporated

Kronos is a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. Kronos industry-centric workforce applications are purpose-built for businesses, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and government agencies of all sizes. Tens of thousands of organizations — including half of the Fortune 1000® — and more than 40 million people in over 100 countries use Kronos every day. Kronos merged with Ultimate Software on April 1, 2020, to create one of the world’s most innovative HCM and workforce management companies.

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Immuta Receives $40M in Funds to Grow Automated Data Governance; Matthew Carroll Quoted
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Immuta Receives $40M in Funds to Grow Automated Data Governance; Matthew Carroll Quoted

Immuta has secured $40 million in funding to extend its leadership position in the growing market for automated data governance and privacy solutions, the company reported on Tuesday.

“The investment we’re announcing today from Intel Capital and Ten Eleven, along with our existing investors, will help us accelerate platform innovation, enhance and expand our strategic partnerships, and bring to market new, industry-specific solutions to automate compliance with HIPAA, CCPA, COPPA and other regulations,” said Matthew Carroll, co-founder and CEO, Immuta.

Immuta automated data governance has been developed on a cloud-native platform for organizations that work with sensitive data subject to regulation and business rules. The platform will automat data access control, security and privacy compliance to enhance security.

The company has integrated its platform with leading cloud data and analytics platforms, including Databricks, Snowflake and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to simplify deployment and improve return-on-investment across the financial services, insurance, healthcare and digital health, government, manufacturing, and internet/consumer tech sectors.

With the investments, Immuta has added new privacy and security automation capabilities designed to help organizations fully leverage cloud-based data analytics and data sharing to the company’s platform. The additional funds will accelerate Immuta’s development of its automated data governance platform by verticalizing the law with industry-specific solutions.

The Series C round was led by new investor Intel Capital, with participation from new investor Ten Eleven Ventures and existing investors DFJ Growth, Dell Technologies Capital, Greycroft, Drive Capital and Citi Ventures.

“Immuta solves a pain point for customers by making it easier and faster to access and use data in a compliant, protected way,” said Mark Rostick, vice president and senior managing director, Intel Capital. “As organizations need to do more with their data, while facing increasing global data privacy regulations, Immuta is filling an important gap by delivering a platform that automates privacy protection and governance. We’re thrilled to be investing with the Immuta team.”

About Immuta

Immuta was founded in 2015 based on a mission within the U.S. Intelligence Community to build a platform that accelerates self-service access to and control of sensitive data. The Immuta Automated Data Governance platform creates trust across data engineering, security, legal, compliance, and business teams so they can work together to ensure timely access to critical data with minimal risk, while adhering to global data privacy regulations including the GDPR, CCPA and HIPAA.

Immuta’s automated, scalable, no-code approach makes it easy for users to access the data they need, when they need it, while protecting sensitive information and ensuring customer privacy. Selected by Fast Company as one of the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies, Immuta is headquartered in Boston, MA with offices in College Park, MD and Columbus, OH.

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NTT DATA Subsidiary Wins Task Order Under GSA Alliant 2 Contract to Support DHS OIG; Kevin Durkin Quoted
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NTT DATA Subsidiary Wins Task Order Under GSA Alliant 2 Contract to Support DHS OIG; Kevin Durkin Quoted

NTT DATA Services Federal Government, subsidiary of NTT DATA Services, has been awarded a five-year $17.5 million task order under its GSA Alliant 2 contract by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to support the DHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG), the company reported on Tuesday. 

“We are honored to expand our strong relationship with DHS and OIG to significantly improve their IT performance, reliability and security, and enable their mission-critical activities to operate efficiently and effectively,” said Kevin Durkin, president of NTT DATA Services Federal Government.

NTT DATA Services Federal Government will provide a range of help desk, network and infrastructure system administration and enterprise application support services for the OIG. The company’s services will support operations and essential IT support functions. The company will enable optimal, reliable IT system performance at OIG and efficiently fulfill OIG’s stated information and technical management objectives.

In addition, NTT DATA Services Federal Government will administer network and programming support services and complete help desk operational support necessary to run, maintain and enhance existing enterprise systems for OIG staff and its contractors. 

“At NTT DATA, we understand the importance of maintaining high levels of IT support services for government agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security,” added Durkin.

About NTT DATA Services

NTT DATA Services partners with clients to navigate and simplify the modern complexities of business and technology, delivering the insights, solutions and outcomes that matter most. We deliver tangible business results by combining deep industry expertise with applied innovations in digital, cloud and automation across a comprehensive portfolio of consulting, application, infrastructure and business process services.

NTT DATA Services, headquartered in Plano, Texas, is a division of NTT DATA Corporation, a top 10 global business and IT services provider with 130,000+ professionals in more than 50 countries, and NTT, a partner to more than 85 percent of the Fortune Global 100.

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NSF Seeks to Reach More Startups Through ‘Project Pitch’ Platform
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NSF Seeks to Reach More Startups Through ‘Project Pitch’ Platform

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is conducting a pilot of a new portal in the FastLane system that allows startups and small businesses to pitch their project concepts and receive responses within three weeks, FedScoop reported Monday. Kelly Monterroso, a communications specialist at NSF, said the Project Pitch platform allows NSF to streamline the scientific research grant application process for startups and entrepreneurs.

“So we know that if we invite them to submit a proposal, because they’ve gone through the project pitch process, we know who they are, we can hold webinars just for them, we can just really help them through their registration, all the paperwork that they need to submit. So it’s a way that we can help them through our process,” said Monterroso.

NSF came up with the Project Pitch platform using Service Cloud Lightning Edition, a software-as-a-service offering from Salesforce.

“The lack of upfront cost is really important because this is a pilot. It’s still a pilot, honestly. We’re still changing things,” Ben Schrag, Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program director at NSF, said of Project Pitch.

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DHS Expands Scope of Insider Threat Program
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DHS Expands Scope of Insider Threat Program

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has updated its privacy impact assessment for the Insider Threat Program (ITP) by expanding ITP’s scope to include all persons who have or had access to DHS’ information, networks, facilities, equipment and related systems.

The ITP originally focused on the prevention, mitigation and detection of unauthorized disclosure of classified data by DHS employees with active security clearances, DHS said in the updated PIA dated June 16.

“Therefore, the expanded scope increases the popultion covered by the program to include all those with past or current access to DHS facilities, information, equipment, networks, or systems, regardless of security clearance,” DHS wrote.

The update allows the program to collect information from any DHS component, program, office or source; “lawfully obtained” data from any U.S. agency, foreign government entity or private sector organization. It also expands data elements to include contract information, current employment and performance data, personnel files about adverse actions and misconduct and security clearance status.

DHS has identified six privacy risks associated with the update and ways to mitigate such risks, including over collection of employee data and use of collected data for a different purpose.

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Maj. Gen. Maria Barrett on Army’s Plan to Deploy Remote Classified Access Capability
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Maj. Gen. Maria Barrett on Army’s Plan to Deploy Remote Classified Access Capability

Maj. Gen. Maria Barrett, commander of Network Enterprise Technology Command, said the U.S. Army will launch a capability to allow employees teleworking during the pandemic and other remote users to access classified and sensitive information in the next 30 days, C4ISRNET reported Monday.

Barrett told the publication the service plans to onboard the first 500 users in the next four weeks and increase that number to up to 2,000 users. She said NETCOM is coordinating with the Army CIO/G-6 and 7th Signal Command to collect “user requests for prioritization” and that “majority” of the devices that will be used to access data will be virtual desktops with no data stored on end-user devices.

“Based on location, the service will likely work better for [contiguous United States] users; it is our intention to test performance with [outside contiguous United States] users before issuing this as an offering [outside the contiguous United States],” Barrett said.

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DOE Releases Funds for New Tech Commercialization Projects; Dan Brouillette Quoted
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DOE Releases Funds for New Tech Commercialization Projects; Dan Brouillette Quoted

The Department of Energy (DoE) is investing more than $33 million in government-industry-academia partnership projects that aim to develop and later commercialize new energy technologies. National laboratories have partnered with industry and academic entities to pursue these 82 projects financed by DOE's Technology Commercialization Fund, the department said June 11.

“The Technology Commercialization Fund is a critical component of the department’s commercialization strategy, meant to provide a bridge that connects America’s innovators to the research and expertise of our world-class National Lab system," said Dan Brouillette, secretary of Energy.

Project topics include high-performance magnets, wide bandgap power devices, artificial intelligence-supported manufacturing and dual-fuel technology. General Electric Renewable Energy, Boeing, TerraPower, Kairos Power and the University of Pennsylvania are among the industrial and academic partners for the projects.

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DHS S&T Creates DIY Way to Cleanse PPEs of Virus
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DHS S&T Creates DIY Way to Cleanse PPEs of Virus

The Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate has created and unveiled a method that civilians can use to disinfect personal protective equipment.

S&T's do-it-yourself PPE cleanup method involves the use of a programmable multi-cooker that allows for moist heat decontamination, a method endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), DHS said Friday.

The method requires users to put protective masks in a paper bag that will then undergo a 30-minute steaming in a multicooker. The moist heat, from half an inch of water in the multicooker, neutralizes the virus' presence in saliva and culture media on the masks.

A standard mask can still function properly after up to five cycles of the multicooker cleansing, DHS said. S&T will conduct more research on the method's cleansing effect on lung fluid.

“We understand that PPE is not always readily available and are working tirelessly to provide Americans with simple methods to extend the life of this important equipment," said William Bryan, DHS's acting undersecretary for science and technology.

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