The Technology Modernization Fund (TMF) unveiled its latest investments aimed at enhancing public services and operational efficiency across key federal agencies. These initiatives encompass a wide spectrum of improvements, including the revamp of the Department of Education’s StudentAid.gov to streamline the student loan borrowing experience, the modernization of the Department of Commerce’s (DOC) Weather.gov to…
Why GAO Did This Study In recent years, ICE has frequently relied on additional funding beyond its annual appropriations to meet its mission of enforcing immigration laws and combatting transnational crime. That funding often totaled hundreds of millions of dollars per year from supplemental appropriations and from funds transferred from other agencies within DHS. The…
Katmai Professional Services (Katmai) and Highlight Technologies (“Highlight”) are proud to announce the creation of Katmai-Highlight Government Services JV (KHGS). This joint venture partnership directly connects to Katmai and Highlight’s SBA-approved Mentor-Protégé relationship. KHGS combines the strengths of both organizations, including subject matter expertise, customer relationships, core capabilities, and various delivery models to provide optimized, end-to-end digital, professional,…
“Accelint is a unified organization powered by the collaboration of five industry leaders: Forward Slope, Highbury Defense Group, Hypergiant, SoarTech and Systems Innovation Engineering. Our comprehensive AI-forward solutions are designed to deliver the situational awareness, agility, and resilience necessary to maintain a decisive edge in increasingly complex environments. While the name might be new, for…
Report Number: 23-01105-69 Each year agency program officials, chief information officers, and inspectors general must review their agencies’ information security programs and report to the Department of Homeland Security and Congress on the programs’ compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA). The OIG contracted with an independent public accounting firm, CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA),…
SpahrTek is OPEN FOR BUSINESS!!! TekSynap and Spahr are passionate about promoting work done by Veterans and Veteran-Owned Small Business. TekSynap is an award-winning company with an outstanding corporate culture and commitment to both its employees and to delivering outstanding results. Together, we are a tour de force about to happen! SpahrTek LLC JV is…
Excella, a pioneer in Agile technology solutions, today announced that the company has secured a minority investment from Attain Capital to advance its focus on delivering differentiated technology solutions in support of critical client missions. This partnership comes after Excella continued its record of strong growth in 2023, while becoming well-positioned to expand its capabilities…
Accelerates access to advanced healthcare machine learning and artificial intelligence capabilities to the Veteran Community Cogitativo announces its joint venture (JV) partnership with National Consulting Partners (NCP) to establish Radial Technologies (www.radialtechnologies.com), aimed to accelerate access to world-class Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) capabilities for the United States and Department of Veterans Affairs…
Why GAO Did This Study DOJ’s transition to JustGrants delayed some of the department’s approximately $4.3 billion in grants and cooperative agreements in fiscal year 2021, according to the DOJ Office of the Inspector General. GAO was asked to examine users’ challenges with the transition to JustGrants. This report (1) describes the challenges of external…
The National Work Queue (NWQ) division generally uses the NWQ tool and ranking rules to prioritize and distribute claims across VBA’s regional offices for processing. The OIG conducted this review after discovering some claims at the NWQ division had been awaiting decisions for one year or longer. The team identified 10,541 claims aged 365 days…