John Edwards, chief information officer at the CIA, has said the agency should update its technology platforms and optimize its workforce to accelerate data collection and generate insights from gathered information, FedTech Magazine published Tuesday. “Increasing the edge over our adversaries, our operational advantage will be determined by the speed at which we sense, collect, ingest, condition, analyze and characterize data of the representative threat,” he said in his speech at the FedScoop Public Sector Innovation Summit held Dec. 4 in Washington, D.C.
Read More »Deltek: Federal Cloud Platform Investments to Reach $6.4B by FY 2021
A new Deltek report predicts federal spending on cloud computing platforms and services to increase from $3.1 billion in fiscal year 2016 to $6.4 billion by FY 2021. Deltek said Tuesday government investments in big data services and products will grow to $3.6 billion by FY 2021 from $2 billion in FY …
Read More »ImmixGroup: DoD, DHS, Commerce Dept Land Top Spots in FY 2017 Govt Cloud Budget Rankings
A market intelligence analysis by immixGroup says the departments of Defense, Homeland Security and Commerce are the top three government spenders when it comes to cloud platforms based on their budget requests for fiscal year 2017. DoD has requested $1 billion in funds to support cloud adoption efforts, while DHS …
Read More »Stephen Warren: VA Reconsiders Use of Public Cloud Amid Cyber Threats
The Department of Veterans Affairs is developing a new cloud strategy as it reconsiders the use of commercial cloud services for some applications, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Jason Miller writes that VA Chief Information Officer Stephen Warren said the strategy will guide the department’s path to using public clouds alongside its use of private …
Read More »Report: CIA Implements Amazon Private Cloud System
The CIA has rolled out an Amazon Web Services-built cloud platform designed to facilitate collaboration among 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, Nextgov reported Friday. Frank Konkel writes the CIA’s private cloud infrastructure went live last week, offering intelligence organizations access to a range of computing, storage …
Read More »NAVAIR, MobileSmith Partner to Develop Mobile Apps
MobileSmith has partnered with the Naval Air Systems Command to provide continued development of applications and services to further the command’s mobile application strategy. The strategic agreement aims to enable NAVAIR to design, develop, launch and manage applications necessary to the needs of the U.S. Navy and related stakeholders. Robert Hancock, …
Read More »Army War College Adopts Blackboard Cloud-Based Training Platform; Maurice Heiblum Comments
The U.S. Army War College will use Blackboard‘s cloud-based teaching and learning platform to carry out online training programs for high-ranking military officials. Blackboard said Thursday that the college adopted the program for its Resident Program and the two-year, graduate-level Distance Education Program for senior military leadership competency development. Learners will need a username and …
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