Governance, risk and compliance platform Onspring GovCloud has announced the launch of a software offering to assist agencies in fulfilling requirements set by Office of Management and Budget Circular A-123, “Management’s Responsibility for Enterprise Risk Management and Internal Control.” Federal agencies can utilize the cloud-based OMB A-123 Risk & Controls software to implement an integrated and automated […]
The Office of Management and Budget has instructed federal agencies to each produce internet of things inventories by the end of fiscal year 2024. The directive is part of a Federal Information Security Modernization Act implementation memo released Monday by OMB Director Shalanda Young, Nextgov/FCW reported Tuesday. According to the OMB, properly evaluating cybersecurity risks to missions and operations requires […]
The National Reconnaissance Office has announced a new set of Strategic Commercial Enhancements contracts to assess and utilize private-sector electro-optical capabilities. Airbus U.S. Space and Defense, Albedo Space, Hydrosat, Muon Space and Turion Space secured deals under the SCE Broad Agency Announcement Framework, NRO said. Each provider will undergo an evaluation process beginning with an analytic study to […]
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced the assignment of Gina Tourassi as associate laboratory director of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. More than 500 researchers work at CCSD, which is in charge of the Frontier exascale supercomputer, ORNL said Monday. The directorate also handles most of the lab’s artificial intelligence, […]
Gilat Satellite Networks announced that its Wavestream subsidiary has secured a $20 million contract to extend its work on a U.S. Army program to sustain ubiquitous satellite connectivity. The Army initiative aims to deliver a communications-on-the-pause solution worldwide using satellite transportable terminals integrated with Wavestream’s ruggedized solid state amplifier, Gilat said Monday. Bob Huffman, general manager […]
Heidi Shyu, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, revealed on Saturday that the Deputy’s Management Action Group has approved three capabilities tested under the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve, a program to accelerate the development of warfighting capabilities through prototyping. Shyu, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, […]
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has warned that failure by Congress to pass a full budget for 2024 could delay the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program by a year. CCA is the U.S. Air Force’s effort to develop an autonomous pilot that can pair with humans, Breaking Defense reported Saturday. The service branch is asking for […]
Andre Mendes, the Department of Commerce’s chief information officer, has shared that his organization is transitioning to cloud-based software-as-a-service because of new features despite high potential costs. Mendes said in an interview that he wants information technology departments across the public and private sectors to “stop dealing with commodity stuff” and prioritize what brings value, […]
Nathaniel Fick, the Department of State’s ambassador at large for cyberspace and digital policy, called for digital development efforts to consider international security during the first Global Conference on Cyber Capacity Building, which took place in Ghana from Nov. 29 to 30. Organized by the government of Ghana, the World Bank, the World Economic Forum […]
Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo has called for more funding to compete with China on technology. At the Reagan Defense Forum in California, she singled out the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security, the entity responsible for export controls, DefenseNews reported. Raimondo pointed out that the bureau’s budget has stayed at $200 million for […]
