Anne Neuberger, the Biden administration’s deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technologies, urged attendees at a Thursday NATO meeting in Rome to step up cybersecurity efforts. She called for the ability to provide direct support in the event of an attack against a member country, CyberScoop reported. Neuberger cited NATO’s response to an […]
The Space Development Agency is moving forward with December plans to launch an initial batch of satellites for Tranche 0 of its Transport Layer and Tracking Layer programs. SDA plans to deploy four tracking spacecraft from SpaceX and an undisclosed number of transport spacecraft from Lockheed Martin and York Space Systems. A follow-up mission set […]
Albert Stewart is the senior vice president of business development at Xator, a national security solutions provider located in Reston, Virginia. He was previously director of business development at CACI International, where he worked with customers in the intelligence community. Before that, he also led the pursuit of new IC clients at Science Applications International […]
Shane Shaneman is the strategic director of national security and defense at Carnegie Mellon University, where he heads collaboration and joint research with the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. He is the first person to take on the role, previously serving as director of strategic government research and engagements. Currently, Shaneman is also […]
BAE Systems has won a $17 million Technical Area 2, Plan Gaming and Outcome Analysis contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to create an artificial intelligence-powered interactive game environment meant to train air operations planners. The company’s FAST Labs division will work with Uncharted Software and Kestrel Institute as part of the Fight Tonight […]
Sharon Woods, the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Hosting and Compute Center, said that officials expect the Department of Defense to award the $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract in mid-December. The original plan was to award it in April but the DOD opted to push the deadline back following the issuance […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Inmarsat Government the U.S. Army Blue Force Tracker Network Services blanket purchase agreement, which has a maximum value of $410 million over a base period of one year. DISA aims to procure L-band satellite communications on the ELERA network between BFT transceivers and satellite earth stations, Inmarsat reported […]
The Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Transportation and Air Quality has awarded VMD a five-year, $22 million contract to support fuel compliance verification platforms such as the electronic Transactions, Registration, Reporting and Access information technology ecosystem. Specifically, the Fairfax, Virginia-based company will assist with DevSecOps practices and provide cloud computing, data analytics, robotic process automation […]
Maj. Gen. DeAnna Burt, special assistant to the vice chief of space operations at the U.S. Space Force, attended an annual Air Traffic Control Association event on Nov. 7 to talk about a planned transfer of space traffic management operations to the Office of Space Commerce. At present, a U.S. Space Command squadron oversees safety […]
The Office of Sen. Mark Warner has released a cybersecurity policy options paper outlining steps the Department of Health and Human Services can take to address vulnerabilities in the health care sector. Warner pointed out a lack of coordination between HHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in the last two years, which have […]
