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General Services Administration head Denise Turner Roth has announced GSA’s move to solicit input from industry in an effort to help businesses gain more access to the federal procurement space. Roth said Thursday the request for information aims to modify GSA’s IT Schedule 70 in order to attract increased participation from the private sector. “And […] More
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is exploring sources of application or software programs that VA can potentially use to verify credentials of employees and contractors who access its facilities. In a request for information posted Aug. 26 on FedBizOpps, VA said it seeks to identify a new credential management tool for the department’s Personal […] More
The U.S. Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has issued a request for information on existing methods for modeling and forecasting of low-frequency events. IARPA said Aug. 12 in a FedBizOpps notice it also seeks industry’s help to find alternative approaches to test and evaluate if rare event prediction techniques work. Areas of interest highlighted in […] More
The Defense Department has launched a market research on cellular services and mobile devices with the release of a request for information on Friday that seeks input from industry for its mobile service program for employees. Mobile devices needed under the program must provide text, data, voice service and mobile hotspot service, according to the FedBizOpps notice. They […] More
The U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center is looking into commercial software and related service offerings to supplement the military branch’s mobile health information technology infrastructure. In a request for information published June 9 on FedBizOpps, the Army said its Mobile Health Care Environment System is designed to employ government and commercial off-the-shelf […] More
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is conducting market research on the availability of potential sources of operations, maintenance, development modernization and enhancement services for the agency’s Safety Reporting Portal system. In a notice posted Sunday on FedBizOpps, FDA said it targets small business sources such as those under the 8(a) Business Development Program and Historically Underutilized Business Zone […] More
NASAÂ is seeking ideas from the private sector on how to build a robotic spacecraft technology for future unmanned asteroid and satellite servicing missions. The agency said Tuesday it aims to launch spacecraft in 2020 to snag a large boulder from a near-Earth asteroid’s surface and place the rock in lunar orbit for examination. “Today’s call […] More
The FBI‘s National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force is seeking information on software technologies with knowledge management functions to handle cyber threats as a threat intelligence platform. In the notice posted May 7 on FedBizOpps, FBI said the technology should have functionality for data aggregation, extraction of observable data that will be used to establish signatures, as well as […] More
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for information on commercial off-the-shelf software applications that can help the agency to match, store, analyze and share biometric information. DHS said in a FedBizOpps notice posted April 27 the department’s Office of Biometric Identity Management is searching out business process management, reporting and analytics, data storage, […] More
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology has sought information on potential vendors that can help develop a risk scoring system for the agency’s information technology platforms, FCW reported Friday. Mark Rockwell writes NIST is interested in collaborating with the private sector to assess and monitor cybersecurity risks through a continuous monitoring initiative at […] More
The Defense Department‘s U.S. Special Operations Command is seeking information on potential providers of integrity verification and tamper detection tools for BlackBerry 10 smartphones. USSOCOM said Thursday it wants a technology that can help special operations forces to monitor and audit BlackBerry 10 software and application modules. The command is also interested in acquiring a […] More
The General Services Administration is seeking information on potential sources of business models or procurement vehicles for the implementation of federated digital identity credential services for the Connect.gov program. In the notice posted Thursday on FedBizOpps, GSA said the project management office for cloud computing services within the Federal Acquisition Service aims to develop a shared service operating […] More
