Network Modernization 2021 Archives

EIS vendors ‘concerned’ some agencies won’t make 2022 deadline

GSA's Allen Hill told FedScoop vendors are "rightfully concerned" that some agencies might not fully transition their services off of expiring contracts to EIS by Sept. 30,…

Oct 1, 2021 By Billy Mitchell

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Let’s Talk About IT Ep. 21 — The looming deadline for the $50B EIS contract

GSA's Allen Hill joins the podcast to discuss what's in store for the EIS contract with almost exactly a year left for agencies to finish transitioning legacy…

Sep 29, 2021 By Billy Mitchell

DOL ups its Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions task orders to 5 worth $887M

Awardee Verizon will develop a secure data and voice network at nearly 1,000 DOL locations.

Sep 28, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

WASHINGTON – AUGUST 30: The Environmental Protection Agency building is shown August 30, 2006 in Washington DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

EPA to resubmit disconnection orders for unnecessary services post-EIS

Now-defunct analog phone and digital subscriber lines still haven't been disconnected across the agency.

Sep 23, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

SAN CLEMENTE, CA – MARCH 15: Ocean waves come ashore near the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station along San Onofre State Beach on March 15, 2012 south of San Clemente, California. Three steam generator tubes in Unit 3 of the nuclear reaction facility failed pressure stress tests by Southern California Edison (SCE), prompting the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to begin assembling a team of nuclear energy inspection experts who will try to determine why the level of wear on the tubes is unusually high. The unit has been shut down since the detection of a leak in one of the steam generator tubes on January 31. Unit 2 is also off line, for routine inspections, and Unit 1 has been decommissioned. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Nuclear Regulatory Commission on track to complete EIS transition by year end

The agency expects to complete the contract switchover nine months ahead of the federal deadline.

Sep 15, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

The VA is looking to 5G to enable ‘X-ray vision’ for doctors

VA doctors may soon be able to use AR headsets to superimpose medical imaging on a patient for "safer and more effective procedures."

Sep 14, 2021 By Billy Mitchell

Pfc. Justin Kuehn, a field artillery automated tactical data systems specialist assigned to Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 319th Airborne Field Artillery Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division helps the fire direction center convert target data into firing commands for the gun line during a live-fire exercise on April 9, 2013. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Joseph Guenther/Released)

How the Army is getting ready for the next Project Convergence tests

The Army is testing Project Convergence tech in virtual environments before it sends soldiers out into the desert later this year.

Sep 14, 2021 By Jackson Barnett

50% transition to EIS target remains elusive for agencies

Twelve of the 24 Chief Financial Officers Act agencies have achieved the 50% mark though.

Sep 14, 2021 By Dave Nyczepir

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5G networks need to be interoperable, DOD and DHS officials say

Agencies need to work on open standards for 5G, officials said during FedTalks.

Aug 24, 2021 By Jackson Barnett

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Verizon gets $495M to build network for DOD’s supercomputers

Verizon will build high-speed connections between over 200 DOD labs.

Jun 17, 2021 By Jackson Barnett