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The U.S. Army is soliciting white papers from vendors to determine industry interest in demonstrating fixed or mobile capabilities that can counter threats posed by Group 3 small unmanned aircraft systems. Interested stakeholders should only submit white papers if their proposed systems are ready for testing by May 2023, according to a project announcement published […] More
Kathrine Dass, chief delivery officer at Ventech Solutions, has been selected by a panel of government and industry leaders in the federal information technology sector as a recipient of the 2022 Leading for Impact, Women in Leadership Award. The 5th Annual Leading for Impact, Women in Leadership Awards seeks to recognize women leaders for creating […] More
The U.S. Space Force has issued a draft request for proposals for the second iteration of a program that seeks to acquire spacecraft and space access for science and technology experiments. Space Systems Command intends to compete the Space Test Experiment Platform 2.0 program as a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with separate delivery orders for spacecraft […] More
The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum that establishes a maturity model to guide the implementation of event logging requirements with regard to cybersecurity incidents and Amazon Web Services outlined for federal customers the AWS services listed in the M-21-31 memo that require log data capture and storage at the EL1 level. “EL1 […] More
Nokia and the Energy Sciences Network of the Department of Energy have launched a next-generation internet protocol network, dubbed ESnet6, designed to enable U.S. and international research institutions to process and share large volumes of research data produced by experiments and simulations. ESnet6 uses Nokia’s 7750 Service Router platforms to provide up to 400 Gigabytes […] More
Khalid Syed, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton and a leader within the company’s global defense sector, said the company will join other industry partners, academic institutions and military services to demonstrate technologies at the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence 2022 as part of efforts to advance the Joint All-Domain Command and Control initiative. […] More
Robert Carey, president of Cloudera Government Solutions and a previous Wash100 Award winner, said enabling real-time decision-making in the field of cybersecurity is important and artificial intelligence and machine learning hold promise in automating that decision-making process. Carey said in a podcast posted Tuesday that organizations need to know how they can take advantage of […] More
The Department of Defense awarded contracts to Accrete AI Government and Quantifind to produce their artificial intelligence platforms designed to analyze commercially and publicly available information to detect patterns and relationships with foreign adversaries. The AI-based tools from Accrete and Quantifind enable DOD analysts and investigators to identify links between organizations, networks of interest and […] More
Science Applications International Corp. and SecureXperts have partnered to build platforms for telework and alternative work environments that meet federal requirements for ensuring the security of the Department of Defense’s classified documents. “Together, SAIC and SecureXperts bring unique skills and expertise that will support the growing demand for services to protect intelligence users that store, […] More
Raytheon Technologies’ missiles and defense business and the U.S. Army demonstrated the capabilities of LIDS, a counter-unmanned aircraft system platform, during the service’s summer test period. LIDS stands for Low, slow, small UAS Integrated Defeat System and is an Army-developed platform composed of Ku-band Radio Frequency Sensor or KuRFS and Coyote family of effectors from […] More
HII and Markesman Group have established a joint venture through the Small Business Administration’s mentor-protege program to advance the delivery of cybersecurity platforms to defense market customers. The two companies said Monday they will work together under the business name Tuple and support the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity mission by combining HII’s experience in the […] More
IBM has announced plans to invest $20 billion in the state of New York’s Hudson Valley Region over the next decade to advance discoveries in the field of semiconductors, quantum computers, hybrid cloud and artificial intelligence. The announcement coincides with the visit of President Joe Biden to IBM’s manufacturing site in Poughkeepsie, New York, the […] More
