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The Interior Department building in Washington. (Tajha Chappellet-Lanier / FedScoop)

Interior awards $2 billion cloud hosting contract to 7 vendors

The Foundation Cloud Hosting Services II contract is a recompete of a $10 billion cloud contract awarded to 10 vendors in 2013.

May 30, 2024 By Matt Bracken

CBP’s Edward Mays on the benefits of cloud-based collaboration tools

Edward Mays | Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Infrastructure & Support Services, and Chief Enterprise Infrastructure Officer | CBP

May 29, 2024 By Scoop News Group

The Department of Education building in Washington, DC, on May 2, 2022. (Photo by STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images)

Department of Education begins market research for cloud capabilities

In a request for information, the Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid Office said it’s looking for a managed service provider for cloud capabilities.

May 6, 2024 By Caroline Nihill

Oracle approved to handle government secret-level data

The accreditation puts Oracle on a level playing field with its top competitors in the federal cloud space — Amazon, Google and Microsoft.

Apr 23, 2024 By Billy Mitchell

A UN worker takes a box containing sanitation kits and soap provided by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) being stored at a UN school before a distribution to Palestinian displaced people on August 15, 2014 in Gaza City. (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

With updated IT strategic plan, USAID tech is a driver of mission, not compliance, CIO says

"It's about making sure that we're supporting the missions and enabling and empowering them," CIO Jason Gray said of the role of USAID's IT.

Apr 9, 2024 By Billy Mitchell

Google Cloud at the Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2019 — (FedScoop)

Google gets authorization to work with top-secret intelligence, defense data

Defense and intelligence agencies will now be able to use Google’s air-gapped cloud platform to process top-secret workloads.

Apr 9, 2024 By Billy Mitchell

U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Headquarters, Washington, D.C.

How cloud modernization transformed OPM cybersecurity operations

By shifting to cloud-native solutions, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management has significantly enhanced its underlying security infrastructure to better protect the agency from evolving cyber threats.

Feb 27, 2024 By Scoop News Group

Satellite dish sky sunset communication technology network — The growth of satellites and cloud-enabled ground stations is unleashing a new era of space industrialization.

How Azure Orbital and the cloud are expanding our worldview

A new report highlights how the convergence of space and cloud technologies contributes to a ‘supernova’ of new space-based Earth-observation capabilities — and benefits for federal and…

Feb 6, 2024 By FedScoop Staff

The seal of the FTC is seen on a podium at FTC headquarters in Washington, DC on September 4, 2019. (Photo credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images).

Federal Trade Commission announces market inquiry between AI developers and cloud service providers

Chairwoman Lina Khan announced that the FTC will look to delete AI models and unlawfully collected data that threaten fair competition or trick the public.

Jan 25, 2024 By Caroline Nihill

Dept. of Labor CISO Paul Blahusch on embracing AI and zero trust

Blahusch discusses cloud and zero trust strategies that can improve and secure data sharing with federal, state and local agency partners, and says AI will be a…

Dec 20, 2023 By Scoop News Group