The Department of Energy has issued a contract to BWXT Technologies for continued environmental management work at the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Ohio. The contract extension amounts to a total of $690 million, including all options. The agreement with the DOD took effect on March 29. The contract has a one-year option and includes […]
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has issued a request for proposals for a $241 million contract that will prepare the Department of Defense for artificial intelligence development. The Data Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Development services contract will be executed over the course of five years. The DOD is seeking proposals that will result in multiple […]
Alion Science and Technology has received a task order worth $77 million to provide aircraft and weapons systems research and development for the Department of Defense’s F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office. The U.S. Air Force awarded the task order under the DOD Information Analysis Center’s multiple-award contract vehicle. The contract will cover research, technical […]
Reps. Nancy Mace and Mike Bost have introduced a new bill that would instruct the secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs to steer a communications campaign aimed at educating former military members on the modern digital dangers they could face. The Veterans’ Cyber Risk Awareness Act states that disinformation, identify theft, fraud and scams, […]
The FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have issued a new advisory warning that an advanced persistent actor is trying to gain access to government and industry networks using old vulnerabilities in enterprise software from Fortinet. According to the advisory, there are three known vulnerabilities in Fortinet’s FortiOS that were identified in 2018, […]
L3Harris Technologies and Raytheon Technologies have been tasked by NASA to work on the Geostationary and Extended Orbits Imager Phase A study contracts, each amounting to $6 million. Under their agreement with NASA, Indiana-based L3Harris and California-based Raytheon will provide services to help meet the objectives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s GEO-XO program. […]
An officer from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force will be assigned at the U.S. Space Command headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado, according to a new agreement between the U.S. Space Command and Japan. USSPACECOM and Japan signed the agreement on April 1 to increase collaboration on space security. The new deal is […]
Shashidhar Angadi is the chief technology officer of Exterro, a company that provides e-discovery and information governance software. Angadi has been serving as CTO at Exterro since 2006. As executive vice president of technology, he focuses on overseeing the company’s end-to-end platform for corporations and their outside counsel to manage legal governance, risk and compliance […]
The Department of Homeland Security is asking industry to submit proposals for collaborative projects aimed at developing advanced security technologies. On March 30, DHS announced the 2021 call for proposals for the Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Homeland Security program. The call for proposals seeks to stimulate, promote and support industrial research and development […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Lockheed Martin a $1.1 billion contract to develop an additional 11,000 Guided Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, according to a March 29 press release. The contract award comes after Lockheed finished testing an extended-range version of the system that is in development. During the test, the ER-GMLRS traveled more than 83 […]
