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Bill Hunt, digital services expert at the Office of Management and Budget, has said OMB’s updated cloud strategy seeks to accelerate federal agencies’ efforts to implement the technology, Federal News Radio reported

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Materials and Manufacturing Directorate has started leveraging commercial-off-the-shelf augmented reality systems to develop an approach that will help aircraft maintainers inspect internal components of a plane.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is providing a facial biometric matching service for Mineta San Jose International Airport or SJC as the station works to fully implement the technology this fall. The

Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has migrated more than 30,000 email accounts to the cloud as part of a Defense Department effort to provide greater email storage. Under the Cloud Hosted Enterprise Service

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched a three-phase competition to develop new applications designed to streamline the collection of standardized patient-reported outcome data for use in research and clinical settings.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering in an effort to develop interoperability standards for cloud computing platforms, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. Robert Bohn, NIST’s

David Pekoske, head of the Transportation Security Administration, has said TSA collaborated with airline and airport partners this year to broaden the use of Computed Tomography X-ray systems at airports and plans to field

The U.S. Navy and Air Force have jointly developed and assessed an eye protection prototype for aviation operations in an effort to help reduce visible-laser cockpit illumination incidents. The Naval Medical Research

The U.S. Air Force 412th Operations Group is using Alpha Jets as test support units for chase planes. The move comes in an effort to augment the service branch's chase plane fleet

The Data Center Infrastructure Management strategy could help information technology leaders at federal agencies comply with the Data Center Optimization Initiative as part of the implementation of the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act,