Artificial intelligence company Socure announced that its ID+ platform has received an In Process designation and a marketplace listing from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. ID+ provides AI and machine learning-powered digital identity verification and fraud prevention capabilities, Socure said Monday. The platform is intended to enable government agencies to deliver secure access […]
The Department of Education has appointed Chief Technology Officer Vijay Sharma as its chief artificial intelligence officer. Sharma is also the Education Department’s responsible AI official, a role established by a Trump-era executive order in 2020 to implement foundational principles, FedScoop reported Monday. According to his LinkedIn profile, Sharma was formerly the department’s enterprise program […]
U.S. Air Force Col. James Hamilton, A6 for the 12th Air Force, said the United States is seeking to strengthen the cyber defense capabilities of partner nations in the Caribbean and Central and South America. His organization, AFSOUTH, is working to combat cyber threats in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility, Signal Magazine reported […]
Bradley Smith, director of NASA’s Launch Services Office, said a Mars small satellite mission “will very likely” be part of the inaugural flight of Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket. Smith added that he expects the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission launch to take place in one year, while his documents and past […]
Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary of defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said at an event on Tuesday that the Department of Defense within the next three weeks will choose the programs to be fast-tracked under an initiative to rapidly deploy thousands of autonomous systems. Hicks previously explained that Replicator’s objective is to provide the U.S. […]
QinetiQ US announced Monday that it has received a potential five-year, $170 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection to provide operations and maintenance support to the Tethered Aerostat Radar System. DHS uses TARS to obtain real-time data supporting border security efforts, QinetiQ said. U.S. military and law enforcement partners conducting related land, sea […]
Idemia’s national security solutions business recently demonstrated its ID2Access biometric access control technology to U.S. Army and Department of Defense stakeholders at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama. The Army Corps of Engineers’ Engineer Research and Development Center aims to use ID2Access to deliver frictionless access control and enhance security and quality of life at the garrison, SourceSecurity reported. If fully […]
The Office of Personnel Management‘s internal watchdog has flagged cybersecurity measures taken for information technology systems underpinning the Postal Service Health Benefits system, a new health insurance marketplace for U.S. Postal Service workers. OPM’s Office of the Inspector General conducted a flash audit focused on Carrier Connect, a system used to share data with health […]
Drew Myklegard, deputy federal chief information officer, said the Office of Management and Budget will extend the public comment period for draft guidance on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program from Nov. 27 to Dec. 22. Speaking at the recent CyberTalks event, he explained that the agency needs more time to grapple with challenging […]
The Leidos Partnership for Defense Health announced that it has completed the deployment of the Military Health System Genesis electronic health record system to 7,000 more Department of Defense clinicians and providers outside of the contiguous United States. The rollout covered Pacific areas such as Okinawa, Japan, and South Korea and followed deployments across Europe […]
