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    Red Hat’s Travis Steele Suggests 3 Ways for DOD to Develop Automation-First Culture

    Travis Steele, a senior strategic solutions architect at Red Hat, said there are three ways the Department of Defense can do to establish an automation-first culture and one is creating a framework that includes processes, tools and procedures needed for automation and can be implemented across agencies. Steele wrote in a commentary published Wednesday on […] More

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    DARPA Picks 10 Research Teams for Night Vision Tech Development Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced the selection of 10 university and industry research teams for a program that seeks to develop lightweight, night vision goggles that could offer wider field of view and improved visual access across infrared bands using advances in transduction materials and planar optics. The Enhanced Night Vision in […] More

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    SolarWinds: Public Sector IT Leaders See Hackers as Largest Threat Source

    A new SolarWinds survey has found that 56 percent of public sector information technology decision-makers said they consider the general hacking community as the top security threat in their organizations, while 52 percent of respondents pointed to careless insiders as primary threats. Market Connections, a research firm commissioned to conduct the survey, polled 400 IT […] More

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    HawkEye 360 to Help AFRL Demo Hybrid Space ISR Architecture; Alex Fox Quoted

    HawkEye 360 has received a potential three-year, $15.5 million contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory demonstrate, evaluate and test its hybrid space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance architecture. The company said Tuesday it will offer radio frequency analytics research, experiments, development, data ingestion tools, data collection and personnel support to AFRL’s space vehicles directorate […] More

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    Space Force Seeks Info on Potential Weather Data as a Service Sources

    The U.S. Space Force awarded three other transaction authority agreements through the Space Enterprise Consortium to prototype an electro-optical/infrared on-orbit demonstration for weather imagery and cloud characterization requirements and is now seeking information on potential sources that could provide weather data as a service for the EO/IR Weather System. The service plans to use the […] More

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    Woolpert Secures Patent for Technologies Used in High-Altitude Topo-Bathy Lidar Sensor

    Woolpert has obtained a U.S. patent for technologies that could enable an aerial lidar sensor system to collect high-resolution topographic and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The patented technologies are part of a topo-bathy lidar sensor system called Bathymetric Unmanned Littoral LiDar for Operational GEOINT or BULLDOG and were developed to provide the U.S. Army […] More

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    Pivot Point Security Unveils Federal Risk and Compliance Practice

    Pivot Point Security has formed a new practice to help corporate clients doing business with the federal government meet cybersecurity compliance and attestation requirements. The federal risk and compliance practice will provide audit preparation and compliance services around U.S. government regulations, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity and Risk Management Frameworks, Cybersecurity […] More

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    CoinDesk Report Looks at 2021 Market Performance of Bitcoin, Etherium

    A CoinDesk Research report says Bitcoin and Etherium outperformed traditional macroeconomic assets in 2021 by gaining 60 percent and 407 percent, respectively. George Kaloudis and Edward Oosterbaan of CoinDesk noted in a blog published Thursday that bitcoin, which eclipsed the market capitalization of $1 trillion the previous year, saw a key technological upgrade to its […] More

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    Army INSCOM Issues RFI for I2TS-Next IT Support Program

    U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command is seeking information on potential sources that can provide information technology services in support of INSCOM’s mission in 35 geographical locations. The command considers awarding a 60-month contract for the INSCOM IT Support Services‐Next program, according to a request for information published Dec. 21. Under the I2TS-Next program, the […] More

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    Naval Surface Warfare Center Selects 6 Vendors to Build Additive Manufacturing Prototypes

    The Naval Surface Warfare Center has awarded six contracts to develop additive manufacturing prototypes as part of efforts to protect military technologies from a possible breach or compromise, Defense News reported Thursday. General Electric, Lockheed Martin’s rotary and mission systems segment, Mercury Systems, ReLogic Research, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Charles Stark Draper […] More

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    AT&T, Verizon Agree to 2-Week Delay in 5G Service Rollout

    AT&T and Verizon reached a deal with Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Steve Dickson, head of the Federal Aviation Administration, to delay until Jan. 19 the deployment of a 5G wireless service, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The telecommunications companies’ decision, which will provide FAA more time to address flight safety concerns, came after […] More

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    Fortinet’s Jim Richberg on AI-Enabled Security Platform Approach

    Jim Richberg, public sector field chief information security officer at Fortinet, said the government should address security concerns ahead of further adoption of robotic process automation and other related technologies and one way to do that is harnessing artificial intelligence to “power ecosystems or platforms of interoperable security across the federal government.” “AI-powered instrumentation can […] More