The Social Security Administration and the Department of Agriculture’s Food and Nutrition Service have updated the terms of their data-sharing partnership to simplify the application process for benefits under the Supplemental Security Income and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance programs. SSI is an initiative meant to provide monthly payments to individuals that meet certain financial criteria, with […]
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s Architecture and Integration Directorate has awarded Tangram Flex a spot on a $900 million multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract aimed at financing new approaches to technology development. Ryan Helbach, director of business development, explained that the need for rapid defense system upgrade and redesign capabilities stems from the fast pace […]
TD Synnex Public Sector will serve as the distributor for BIO-key International’s PortalGuard and identity-bound biometric multifactor authentication solutions to the federal, state and local government. Fred Corsentino, BIO-key’s chief revenue officer, said that the partnership would widen government access to cost-effective identity and access management platforms, BIO-key said Monday. PortalGuard is an identity-as-a-service platform […]
Meroxa has won a $1.3 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to develop a real-time event streaming data architecture meant to support the integration of sensor data into the Unified Data Library, a repository program co-managed by the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center and the Air Force Research Laboratory. According […]
Mike Habte, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, is partner manager for federal systems integrators at Recorded Future, an intelligence provider headquartered in Somerville, Massachusetts. The company offers a cloud-based platform that provides threat-detection capabilities tailored according to specific use cases. He was formerly an account executive for the Department of Defense at Babel […]
Stephen Fogarty has taken on the role of senior executive adviser at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he will assist with enhancing the national cyber segment’s offerings to the U.S. government and international customers by contributing to strategy and solution development. He was previously the commanding general of the U.S. Army Cyber Command, heading a team […]
Sharon Woods, director of the Hosting and Compute Center at the Defense Information Systems Agency, told Defense One that the Department of Defense plans to set up a cloud system outside the continental U.S. in the first half of 2023. She explained that having such a system will provide the military services with connectivity and […]
The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee has put forward two bills that would update Federal Communications Commission rules on satellite license requirements and market access for entities deemed national security threats. Reps. Frank Pallone and Cathy McMorris Rodgers said that modernizing regulations would foster innovation, helping to ensure that the U.S. leads in […]
Kurt DelBene, the Department of Veterans Affairs chief information officer, said that the agency plans to onboard 1,000 new employees to its Office of Information and Technology. During a press event Friday, he specified that some of the new hires will be product managers tasked with handling the implementation of Oracle Cerner’s Millennium program. According […]
Carlos Del Toro, the secretary of the Navy, told Defense News that the service is putting together an innovation center and advisory board at the Naval Postgraduate School as a means to advance technological capabilities in collaboration with the private sector. He noted artificial intelligence and quantum computing as priorities for research and development. According […]
