Zetra Batiste, the enterprise chief information security officer for cybersecurity supply chain risk management at the Department of State, spoke with Federal News Network about government efforts to kickstart the use of software bills of materials, which are records of program components and their sources and dependencies. The State Department is in the process of […]
The Department of Defense has established the Acquisition, Integration and Interoperability Office, tasking it with managing and speeding up the integration of Joint All-Domain Command and Control projects in development across the various military services. Dave Tremper, electronic warfare director at the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, was named the […]
Eight companies will receive a total of $3.2 million in Small Business Innovation Research Phase II funding from the Environmental Protection Agency to develop technologies that will yield ecological and economic benefits. Up to $400,000 will be allocated to each proposal. Phase I saw the projects graded on their commercial prospects, technical merit and potential […]
The National Archives and Records Administration has copied 205 million pages of government records into the cloud, approaching the halfway mark of the 500 million it aims to digitize by 2026. According to NARA, it accelerated its pace by upgrading its upload process. A roadmap published by the agency in May details planned enhancements to […]
Kiran Ahuja, the director of the Office of Personnel Management, revealed in an email to FCW that multiple federal agencies have proposed a special salary rate that would “unify” and raise wages for information technology management personnel, particularly for those in entry-level positions. She added that OPM has not set a deadline for a decision, […]
Five commercial firms have won contracts with the Defense Innovation Unit to prototype weather modeling capabilities in support of the 557th Weather Wing, the U.S. Air Force’s lead meteorology center. According to DIU, the companies are tasked with integrating their respective interfaces with the Weather Virtual Private Cloud, adding that the commercial data will be […]
Ray Wulff is the regional vice president at Appian, a software development company headquartered in McLean, Virginia. He interfaces with clients regarding solutions in secure cloud hosting, robotic process automation and other fields. In his previous role as industry lead for global defense and intelligence programs, Wulff collaborated with customers, partners and internal staff while […]
Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency, spoke on Tuesday about the function of “translator sats” planned for integration into the Transport Layer, an in-development low Earth orbit constellation meant to provide resilient communication capabilities to the entire U.S. military. He explained in a keynote address at a Mitchell Institute event that the payloads […]
Brian Folsom is an account executive for federal systems integrators at Nutanix, a software development company headquartered in San Jose, California. He previously worked as a product sales specialist and a data center consulting system engineer at Cisco. Prior to that, Folsom was a solutions engineer at Springpath, a software development company acquired by Cisco […]
The Department of Commerce has named 16 experts from the commercial and academic sectors to the Internet of Things Advisory Board, a support body for the IoT Federal Working Group. Created under the William M. Thornberry National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, the board is tasked with guiding the working group on legal […]
