The Air Force Research Laboratory held its third annual New Mexico Cyber and Space Summit in October 2023 to inform state officials and the public about space cyber threats and challenges, according to the event’s technical lead. Joseph Trujillo, the AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate’s space cyber resiliency lead, explained that his organization seeks to attract […]
ICF has announced three task orders worth a combined $33 million awarded by the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics to study chemical exposure risks to humans and the environment. Each task order has a potential five-year term and was made under the OPPT Mission Support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, ICF said. Awarded in […]
Fairfax, Virginia-based General Dynamics Mission Systems has announced a $335.1 million follow-on contract from the U.S. Navy extending full lifecycle and operational support for Trident II Fire Control Systems onboard Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines through 2028. The contract also continues development and installation work for FCSs on new Columbia-class SSBNs and concept design for the […]
Defense and aerospace company Northrop Grumman has announced the launch of its 20th International Space Station resupply mission as part of a NASA contract. The space agency ordered the Cygnus cargo spacecraft mission, codenamed NG-20, under the potential $14 billion Commercial Resupply Service-2 contract, Northrop said. Cygnus entered into orbit from onboard a SpaceX Falcon […]
Information technology solutions reseller Carahsoft Technology has announced that it will distribute CrashPlan’s endpoint data backup and recovery software-as-a-service solutions to the public sector and higher-education organizations as part of a new partnership. CrashPlan’s file backup capabilities facilitate organizational resilience and provide an option to address ransomware attacks, breaches and data migration challenges, Carahsoft said. […]
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has kicked off the first of two bounty programs to identify biases in artificial intelligence systems. Led by the CDAO Responsible AI division, the AI Bias Bounty exercises are expected to produce techniques to audit and red-team AI models algorithmically, the DOD said. Matthew Johnson, […]
The White House has released a new draft policy to prevent China and other foreign entities from developing artificial intelligence models using U.S. infrastructure. The “know your customer” regulation would require U.S. cloud providers to implement a customer identification program to verify foreign users, U.S. News reported Friday. Cloud companies would also need to certify […]
Jude Sunderbruch, director of the Department of Defense’s Cyber Crime Center, is predicting that adversaries will soon begin executing cyberattacks using artificial intelligence, resulting in “AI versus AI” conflicts. Speaking at a recent DefenseScoop event, he called on the United States and its allies to explore how to use existing AI systems to overtake China, […]
Steve Wallace, chief technology officer and director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s emerging technology directorate, has revealed plans to pilot a prototype digital concierge powered by artificial intelligence. Speaking Thursday at an Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association-hosted panel, he explained that such a capability would involve using a large language model to answer […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released an initial public draft of a three-year strategic plan for a smart cities and communities program managed by the Smart Connected Systems Division. The Global Community Technology Challenge comprises groups from different sectors working to improve urban conditions through digital capability integration, NIST said. The agency […]
