TransAstra has secured separate contracts from NASA and the Department of Defense to contribute to space debris removal and domain awareness efforts. NASA awarded the Los Angeles, California-based aerospace company a Small Business Innovation Research deal for the Mini Bee Capture Bag, an inflatable apparatus meant to enclose and retrieve a small spacecraft or object. […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted the moderate designation to Cloudflare, enabling it to offer zero trust security modernization services to more U.S. government organizations. Matthew Prince, Cloudflare cofounder and CEO, said that the FedRAMP designation expands the cloud security firm’s customer base beyond agencies such as the Department of State and […]
The Transportation Security Administration has awarded a $150 million blanket purchase agreement to Science Applications International Corp. for the testing and evaluation of airport screening equipment for baggage and travelers. Robert Genter, president of the company’s defense and civilian sector segment, said assessment capabilities would also be used for nonscreening systems. With the BPA, the […]
Healthcare Management Solutions has suffered a ransomware attack that may have compromised the personal health information of up to 254,000 Medicare beneficiaries, including Social Security numbers, banking details and other identifiers. The company is a subcontractor under an ongoing ASRC Federal Data Solutions project with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. HMS provides troubleshooting […]
The Defense Intelligence Agency has announced that Invictus was the recipient of a contract awarded Wednesday to modernize the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Collection System. Katie Lipps, JWICS’ program manager, said at a Thursday industry event that the company would lead a team of subcontractors to work on the project, which has a potential performance period […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Control Technology Branch has awarded Pacific Defense a two-year contract for a low size, weight and power space sensor that follows a modular open systems approach. Prototypes are to be demonstrated by the end of the performance period. The Moonraker system is planned to be used to gain situational […]
A Splunk-sponsored survey has found that 63 percent of public sector organizations face challenges with using data for cyber threat detection compared to 49 percent of the private sector. Further, 66 percent of government agencies struggle with employing data for incident mitigation and response while 52 percent of agencies have difficulty using it for cybersecurity […]
Jordan Feinstein is a sales manager at Amazon Web Services, a position he assumed in May. He joined the company in 2018 as a senior customer relations manager and then became a senior account executive three years later. After a little over a year, he would take on his present role. A member of the […]
The Missile Defense Agency has made its first three orders under a five-year, $500 million production-other transaction agreement with C3 AI, an enterprise software developer based in Redwood, California. The Department of Defense component seeks artificial intelligence programs that can generate models and simulations out of threat datasets; conduct test program planning, analysis and execution; […]
The Alliance for Digital Innovation sent a letter earlier in December to the appropriations committee heads in the House of Representatives and Senate, calling for an extra $100 million in Technology Modernization Fund investments and a larger budget for the Federal Citizen Services Fund in the fiscal year 2023 federal budget. According to the trade […]
