Charles Cynamon serves as senior vice president of engineering and integration at technical solutions provider LinQuest. He has been with the Los Angeles, California-headquartered company since 2015. Cynamon is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force with a total of 28 years of experience in the military and in the private sector. His areas of […]
Leidos has received a potential $600 million prime contract in support of the Army Geospatial Center’s High-Resolution Three Dimensional Geospatial Information Operation and Technology Integration program. Under the agreement, the science and technology company is tasked with continuing to provide contractor-owned and contractor-operated aircraft for the AGC’s BuckEye mission. The BuckEye program delivers mission-critical unclassified high-resolution […]
Ur Jaddou, President Joe Biden’s pick as director of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, has received Senate confirmation to serve in the role. On July 30, 47 Democratic senators voted in favor of Jaddou, while 34 Republicans opposed her nomination. The decision did not include the votes of 19 senators, who were not present […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has called on contractors to submit proposals for a fieldable high-powered microwave system that can disable or destroy hostile drones to protect U.S. air bases. Under a program called Mjolnir, the High Power Electromagnetics Division of the AFRL’s Directed Energy Directorate seeks to procure a counter-unmanned aerial system that could […]
The Senate confirmed Margaret Vo Schaus as the chief financial officer of NASA in a voice vote held on July 30. She assumes her new role at the space agency after serving as director of business operations within the Department of Defense’s Office of the Undersecretary for Research and Engineering. Vo Schaus is the third […]
The Diplomatic Security Contracts Division of the Department of State does not have enough integrated financial management and procurement information technology systems to support efficient contracting, according to a report from the agency’s Office of Inspector General. The unclassified report, released on July 22, states that staff members manually enter data on critical security services […]
Four companies have received blanket purchase agreements from the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services to provide agile development and information technology support services. The BPAs make up the TTS’ Transformation Agile Lifecycle and allow the organization to award task orders on behalf of other government agencies. The government uses TOTAL to advance digital transformation […]
The Senate has confirmed Gina Ortiz Jones as the next undersecretary of the Air Force, the second-highest-ranking civilian role within the service branch. Jones received her Senate confirmation on July 22, one month after the Senate Armed Services Committee advanced her nomination. The new undersecretary is a former intelligence officer in the Air Force, spending […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has named 18 companies to demonstrate architectures employing zero trust security. The selection comes as the NIST drafts zero trust guidance for use by government agencies and industry partners. Amazon Web Services, IBM, Cisco Systems and Microsoft are among the chosen companies, FedScoop reported. The organizations will work […]
NASA has expanded its contract with Earth data and insights provider Planet to further support the Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition program. Under the expanded contract, the San Francisco, California-headquartered company will provide PlanetScope imagery to support scientific research activities conducted by all federal civilian researchers in the U.S. and National Science Foundation-funded scientists, including their […]
