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The U.S. Navy selected Remus 300 unmanned underwater vehicle for the Lionfish small UUV program in March and Duane Fotheringham, president of unmanned systems at HII Mission Technologies, said the company is adopting an open systems architecture in UUV and autonomy software development to align with the service’s vision of fielding technologies that can plug […] More
Brian O’Donnell, a vice president at Carahsoft Technology, talked about how the company helps government agency customers shift from endpoint detection and response toward a more holistic approach to cybersecurity. “With the executive orders that came out this year and the instruction towards zero trust, we’ve seen that some of those EDR implementations help to […] More
Some federal agencies including the U.S. Postal Service and the International Development Finance Corporation are now adopting preconfigured, plug-and-play technologies to speed up deployment and meet their operational requirements, FedTech Magazine reported Thursday. Jonathan Alboum, federal chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said the use of plug-and-play systems not only reflects the transition to a service- […] More
Jon Kirchner, a 30-year industry executive, has been named chief product officer at geospatial intelligence company BlackSky Technology. He will be part of BlackSky’s executive leadership team and oversee the delivery of intelligence and dynamic monitoring products and services to customers, the company said Wednesday. “Jon’s leadership will play a critical role as we advance […] More
The Department of Homeland Security will hold an industry day on Nov. 7 to discuss the Enterprise CLoud Infrastructure Provider Suite program currently in development. DHS will provide an overview of the award structure, projected spend and scope of the proposed ECLIPS program and host a question-and-answer session related to the effort, according to a […] More
Allen Badeau, chief technology officer of Empower AI, said the Department of Defense and other government agencies should treat artificial intelligence as a core technology element and as part of their foundational information technology infrastructure as they look to advance the use of AI to speed up the decision-making process. Badeau wrote in an opinion […] More
Technology consulting firm iTech AG announced that it will support GovCIO’s Salient CRGT subsidiary as the latter delivers information technology services to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of EPA’s Enterprise Support Services and Endpoint Technology program. In September, GovCIO announced the award of a potential seven-year, $524 million task order through the General Services […] More
The Florida Department of Children and Families has deployed a security control system from LexisNexis Special Services to protect the state’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from being exploited by international fraudsters, News 6 reported Friday. The move is part of DCF’s efforts to prevent a potential rise in overseas scammers that would try to […] More
Paperless Innovations has tapped Amtower & Company to provide government marketing consulting support and continuing professional development and education for its personnel through a consultancy agreement. The announcement comes as Paperless works to bring to the government market its cloud-based Actus platform designed to help agencies automate management of procurement card transactions. Mark Amtower, a […] More
Lockheed Martin demonstrated at the company’s inaugural Destination: Space 2050 event a self-adapting autonomous platform and quantum technology that could support future defense, civil and commercial space missions. Lockheed said Thursday the event sought to incite discussion among experts and customers about the space’s future in the areas of space defense, extraplanetary operations, space logistics, […] More
A Raytheon Technologies business has combined its zero trust offering with Red Hat’s OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform to help customers facilitate security deployments across information and operational technology environments. REDPro ZTX from Raytheon Intelligence and Space is a zero trust integration platform that supports vendor-agnostic applications and is designed to speed up enterprise-scale zero trust […] More
PsiQuantum will further develop the photonic approach to quantum computing under a $22.5 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Wednesday it will work with AFRL to design, develop and produce quantum photonic chips at GlobalFoundries’ semiconductor foundry in Malta, New York. Quantum photonic chips can process and control qubits based […] More
