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Google | July 03, 2020

Google, IBM and Microsoft have joined with top research universities to prod the federal government to create a nationwide shared cloud-computing platform, saying it is urgently needed to keep the U.S. from falling behind foreign competitors. A national research cloud would open the doors of Big Tech companies’ data to academic outsiders. It could mean that companies such as Google would hand over the keys to data collected during the coronavirus crisis, such as details on users’ mov...

The Defense Department | April 01, 2020

The Defense Department has temporarily suspended the deployment of its new commercial electronic health records system. According to an official from the Defense Healthcare Management System, the decision will allow military health care providers to better focus on the COVID-19 outbreak. The agency will continue to support eight existing deployments of the MHS Genesis software, the official said. “The MHS GENESIS team highly values people and recognizes the incredible efforts of our provid...

US Department of Transportation | February 11, 2020

The Trump administration this week released its FY 2021 budget, which includes a proposed $1 trillion in transportation infrastructure investments. The president's budget also requests $21.6 billion for the U.S. DOT in discretionary budget authority for 2021, which is a $3.2 billion (or 13%) decrease from the 2020 enacted level. According to a report from the Washington Post, the budget also cuts more than $2 billion in highway infrastructure funds and more than $500 million in transit grant...

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Appian | December 09, 2020

Appian (NASDAQ: APPN) today reported a joint effort with Accenture Federal Services (AFS), an auxiliary of Accenture (NYSE: ACN), to additionally disentangle the federal acquisition measure through low-code robotization. Through the joint exertion, AFS is growing new delivery accelerators to upgrade Appian's Acquisition Solutions, which streamline the acquisition cycle and approve that the cycle completely follows the Federal Acquisition Regulations for defense and regular citizen organizati...