Ed Siu is a partner sales executive at Red Hat, a software development company headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. A member of the Potomac Officers Club, Siu sits on the board of directors of the Community of Strength Project, a Baltimore, Maryland-based nonprofit aimed at promoting fitness among local youths. Prior to joining Red Hat, […]
The Space Development Agency has posted a draft solicitation for the Battle Management Command, Control and Communications Application Factory, a planned internal software development environment for the U.S. Space Force. Capabilities produced by the facility are intended to support the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control program. During a National Security Space Association […]
Denis McDonough, secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, told attendees of a Nov. 9 town hall meeting in Washington, D.C., that progress was being made on the transfer of military service records to the cloud and the development of automated data extraction tools. He explained that the agency’s efforts will accelerate internal decision-making, expanding […]
Col. Charles Ryan, senior materiel leader for the simulators division of the U.S. Air Force’s agile combat support directorate, said in an interview that efforts are underway to implement a common virtual training environment throughout the service. Work is centered around maturing the Joint Simulation Environment, a virtual testbed originally intended to assess the full-rate […]
The Department of State has made several updates to its draft request for proposal for the EVOLVE indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. The agency lifted oral presentation and corporate certification requirements for service offerings and revised certain evaluation criteria, among various other changes. The issuance of a formal RFP is scheduled to occur sometime within the current fiscal […]
The Office of Personnel Management’s Office of the Inspector General listed information technology modernization, financial integrity and human capital management as the top three challenges facing the agency in 2023. Leaders at the Office of the Chief Information Officer are prioritizing the recruitment and retention of an IT workforce and other initiatives that support that […]
Ball Aerospace has received a $78.2 million contract modification to provide a second Weather System Follow-on Microwave Satellite to the U.S. Space Force, which plans to launch it in 2028. The first WSF-M spacecraft was ordered in 2018 and is set to be deployed in 2024, SpaceNews reported Friday. The new satellite is meant to […]
The first phase of a U.K.-U.S. competition for privacy-enhancing technologies has seen 12 white papers chosen out of 76 entries, with a total of $157,000 distributed among the winners. Participants are competing for funding sourced from a $1.6 million prize pool to develop a way to train artificial intelligence models on sensitive data without revealing […]
Sharon Woods, the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Hosting and Compute Center, shared that efforts are underway to forge a cooperative research and development agreement between federal research facilities and private industry for new cloud capabilities. Speaking at the 2022 Forecast to Industry conference, Woods specified that DISA seeks infrastructure code that enables […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $70 million task order to HII’s mission technologies division for system engineering, data analytics and visualization, modeling, cross-domain solutions and other technical services for the Air Force Research Laboratory. The work resulting from the contract is meant to support the artificial intelligence/machine learning and modernization efforts at the […]
