The U.S. Space Force’s Space Training and Readiness Command conducted a training event earlier in December to support threat analysis and response capabilities. The two-day Space Flag 23-1 exercise saw nine U.S. Army space operations officers from various divisions work with representatives from the U.K., Canada and Australia to plan missions and undertake simulated combat. […]
NASA and Roscosmos are working together to investigate a Dec. 14 coolant leak on a Soyuz MS-22 capsule meant to retrieve three astronauts aboard the International Space Station. The U.S. space agency is looking into having the team board a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft while its Russian counterpart is considering sending another Soyuz. Joel Montalbano, […]
Luke Murry is the head of government affairs at Marvell Technology, a Santa Clara, California-based semiconductor manufacturer whose products are used for automotives, data processing units, ethernet technologies and storage devices. A member of the Potomac Officers Club, he is also an adjunct assistant professor at the Center for Security Studies within Georgetown University’s Walsh […]
Peraton has won a spot on a five-year, $1.7 billion blanket purchase agreement to provide IT services to the National Cancer Institute’s Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology. The BPA calls for DevSecOps, cloud capabilities, service desk and IT operations and cybersecurity support, among others. The company is joined on the BPA by Customer […]
Department of Defense and intelligence community officials said that the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability program represents an opportunity for greater collaboration. According to Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency and a 2022 Wash100 winner, the JWCC enables both entities to jointly utilize vendor-supplied capabilities. Skinner was joined at the DOD […]
Reggie Cummings, the deputy chief information officer of infrastructure operations at the Department of Veterans Affairs, spoke with GovCIO Media and Research about an ongoing shift toward an infrastructure-operations-as-a-service model aimed at reducing downtime and streamlining services. He explained that the framework encompasses customer-centric service, bimodal operations and continuous communication. According to Cummings, his team’s […]
Congress is urging the U.S. Air Force to start designing C-130J variants to replace the existing fleet of LC-130H Hercules planes, dubbed “Skibirds”. Lawmakers inserted a $1 million provision into the $1.7 trillion fiscal year 2023 omnibus spending bill that calls for the timely maintenance, modernization and eventual replacement of the aircraft, anticipating the increasing […]
Kate Stewart, a computer scientist at the Linux Foundation involved with defining standards for software bills of materials, said that the industry is starting to make progress with the concept compared to a decade ago. She added that having access to “good quality SBOMs” and their corresponding vulnerability data could result in better usage outcomes. […]
NASA undertook several projects in 2022 outside of the Artemis missions, including programs that could support efforts to return to the moon and Mars. Among such initiatives are the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment and the Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm, Nextgov reported. CAPSTONE is meant to chart a lunar orbit […]
Jim Rice is the vice president of the North American business at Vantiq, a software development firm located in Walnut Creek, California, that offers a low-code platform for applications that collect and process data in real time from edge devices. He also works with artificial intelligence, internet of things and 5G technologies. A member of […]
