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WidePoint has been selected to provide telecommunication expense management services to NASA as part of a partnership with Leidos under a potential 10-year, $2.9B information technology support contract.

The U.S. Army is seeking market information regarding virtual health expertise in support of a medical simulation research effort. The virtual health area of the Medical Simulation and Information Sciences Research Program is intended to guide the research and development of VH technologies applicable in a multi-domain battlefield, the Army said Feb. 12 in a FedBizOpps notice.

The General Services Administration will host a virtual pre-demonstration conference on March 4 to discuss the federal government's intention to adopt an a single audit and risk management platform.

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein said at a recent event in Washington, D.C. that the Department of Defense will request $135B for warfighting capabilities intended to penetrate, National Defense reported Tuesday. The DoD’s fiscal year 2020 budget request will include stealth aircrafts like the F-35 joint strike fighter and other technologies intended to infiltrate the defense systems of adversaries.

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Office of the Inspector General has identified the agency's weaknesses in the areas of security, technological modernization and management. Jay Lerner, FDIC inspector general, said Thursday in a report the agency needs to focus on cybersecurity risk oversight, financial technology innovation, information security management, crisis preparation and enterprise risk management.

Jeff Rosen, the Department of Transportation's deputy secretary, has been nominated for the post of deputy attorney general, Politico reported Tuesday. President Trump nominated Rosen who will succeed Rod Rosenstein in March. The DOT official holds decades of experience in the department, the Office of Management and Budget and the private sector.

NASA expects to perform a series of small unmanned aircraft system demonstrations in Texas and Las Vegas to validate a traffic management tool's operational capacity. The agency said Tuesday it will deploy unmanned aircraft units within Corpus Christi, Texas and Reno, Nevada to showcase the UAS Traffic Management platform's drone traffic management functions in urban areas.

Adm. Christopher Grady, head of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said during the WEST 2019 conference he intends to create a Fleet Analytics Office supporting the U.S. Navy fleet readiness efforts, USNI reported Tuesday. Grady noted that the new office will use real-time reporting systems to handle data collection and risk assessment operations under the Revolutionize Readiness Campaign Plan initiative.