The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has posted a request for information on SAM .gov regarding cognitive effects in cyber operations. Specifically, IARPA is looking into available approaches, emergent findings and metrics to characterize such effects, potentially serving as a foundation for a future government program or study. The RFI covered topics such as the influence of […]
IBM has announced that it will acquire Dialexa, incorporating the company into its consulting division to enhance its end-to-end digital transformation services and grow its expertise in product engineering. The acquisition marks the company’s first venture in the digital product engineering services market, which is expected to reach $700 billion in 2026. The transaction, whose terms […]
BAE Systems FAST Labs has won a $6.5 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop filter technology for the Compact Frontend Filters at the Element-level program, specifically to strengthen the performance of Department of Defense radio frequency and microwave systems such as digital active electronically scanned arrays. According to Chris Rappa, FAST Labs’ […]
The Library of Congress has awarded EBSCO Information Services a $7.7 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to develop and implement the Library Collections Access Platform, an open-source information technology system intended to unify various standalone IT networks into a single center for acquisition, description, inventory and discovery of physical and digital collections. LCAP’s first development phase is planned […]
The Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory and Constellation have entered into a six-year Cooperative Research and Development Agreement to develop carbon-free power generation technology through a variety of initiatives. Both organizations are looking into the economics of hydrogen as an alternative energy source, evaluating demand and the potential impacts of production, storage and delivery. According […]
Sens. Gary Peters and Rob Portman have introduced the Securing Open Source Software Act, a measure that would compel the Office of Management and Budget and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to act on cyber risks in open-source software. According to Peters, the legislation will enhance the state’s ability to protect American citizens’ sensitive data through […]
The operators of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a spacecraft on a mission to deflect the small moonlet asteroid Dimorphos, used its camera on July 1 and Aug. 2 to take pictures of Jupiter and its moon system. According to NASA, the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory team performed the image capture to evaluate the Small-body Maneuvering […]
Laurie Cook is the vice president of public sector at Yext, where she manages the company’s business services for the U.S. federal, state and local governments. Cook, the first person to serve in the role, is responsible for assembling Yext’s public sector sales unit. Before joining Yext, she was chief growth officer at The Ambit Group, […]
Booz Allen Hamilton and NVIDIA are expanding their partnership to provide more advanced cybersecurity services that are powered by artificial intelligence and graphical processing units. NVIDIA’s Morpheus framework and GPUs form the basis for Cyber Precog, a newly developed software platform by Booz Allen that is intended to process large volumes of incident response data in tactical edge […]
Kathleen Robinson is a general manager and sales director for Intel’s business with federal system integrators and the defense industrial base. Robinson was appointed to the position in April following six years as the company’s enterprise account manager for the Department of Veterans Affairs, Social Security Administration and Defense Health Agency. Prior to joining Intel, […]
