The Senate has approved a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure package, allocating more than $1.9 billion for cybersecurity. The funds will support efforts to secure U.S. critical infrastructure against attacks, help vulnerable organizations protect themselves, and finance a key federal cyber office, among others. All Democrats voted for the bill along with 19 Republican senators to […]
The U.S. Space Force has selected three additional companies to join a pool of launch providers competing for missions under the Orbital Services Program. OSP-4 is an indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contract that allows for the rapid acquisition of launch services on behalf of the Space Force. The three companies are ABL Space Systems, Astra Space […]
Jake Stenzler serves as vice president of ABS Group’s government sector. He is responsible for the operations and growth of the company’s contracts, which primarily support the U.S. federal government in the fields of national security and risk management. ABSG appointed Stenzler to his current position in 2018, according to his LinkedIn profile. Has more […]
Information technology and professional services provider ASGN has acquired Enterprise Resource Performance Inc., a health care consulting and data analytics firm. Under the acquisition agreement, 250 consultants from ERPi will join the enterprise solutions business unit of ECS, the federal government segment of ASGN. Based in Fairfax, Virginia, ERPi offers health care-focused data analytics and […]
Orion Labs, the provider of a voice-first collaboration platform, has signed an agreement with Carahsoft Technology to provide a frontline collaboration tool to the U.S. intelligence community, the military and other federal government agencies. According to a statement released on Aug. 5, Carahsoft will serve as Orion’s master government aggregator to support the secure and […]
Three collaborative projects led by five universities will receive a combined $15.1 million in funding from the Department of Energy. According to the DOE, the efforts are aimed at advancing the development of a “flexible, multi-tiered” data and computational infrastructure to support a collection of on-demand scientific data processing tasks and computationally intensive simulations. The […]
The Department of Defense will soon test a full-scale autonomous ocean-going replenishment system featuring technology-driven kits that are designed to transform existing barges into self-moving platforms that can land and refuel military aircraft. Sea Machines Robotics recently signed an agreement with the Defense Innovation Unit to begin the second phase of a contract in support […]
The Air Force’s Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapons Systems recently hosted a virtual event with industry experts to discuss critical topics in the area of cybersecurity. The event saw participation from companies such as Raytheon Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing. During the virtual meeting, CROWS officials and industry leaders discussed the Systems Security […]
The Mars rover Perseverance has failed to collect any material after making its first sampling attempt, and NASA scientists and engineers are currently working to understand why. On Friday, NASA said in a statement that Perseverance had drilled a sample from a rock on the floor of the Red Planet’s Jezero Crater. However, the sample […]
Aerospace startup Hermeus has received $60 million in funding from the U.S. Air Force to develop a hypersonic jet, which has the ability to travel five times faster than the speed of sound. The Air Force awarded Hermeus the multi-million-dollar contract on July 30, setting five objectives for the company to achieve in a period […]
