Douglas Robertson has assumed the position of chief technology officer at the Small Business Administration, where he is tasked with forming an organizational strategy, establishing security programs and utilizing new capabilities to improve programming and performance within operations. In a statement to Nextgov/FCW, the SBA explained that Robertson is part of the chief information office […]
The Space Development Agency has awarded QinetiQ US a five-year, $224 million contract to provide acquisition, engineering, management and technical services supporting the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a low-Earth orbit satellite constellation meant to provide communications and missile-tracking capabilities to U.S. and allied warfighters. According to QinetiQ US CEO Shawn Purvis, a 4×24 member and […]
The U.S. Air Force Test Center’s latest Data Hackathon focused on using generative artificial intelligence to enhance various test processes. Sponsored by AFWERX, the four-day event’s goals were to identify a business use case for the technology and create a knowledge base to implement it. The Air Force is restricted to publicly releasable data when […]
Zhenia Klevitsky, a 4×24 member, has taken on the role of chief growth officer at Edgewater Federal Solutions, where she will lead business development and capture efforts. The news comes after she was named to the not-for-profit organization Women in Technology’s 2023-2024 board of directors, where she was assigned to the role of programs chair. […]
Top technology industry leaders and labor and civil rights groups will attend a closed-door gathering hosted by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer on Sept. 13 to field lawmaker questions on artificial intelligence. Schumer’s office told Nextgov/FCW that confirmed guests include Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, NVIDIA President Jensen […]
The Department of Justice and the FBI led a multinational operation on Tuesday to disrupt Qakbot, a malware and botnet infrastructure used to commit ransomware, financial fraud and other cybercrimes. The FBI said it flagged 700,000 infected computers worldwide, including over 200,000 in the United States. The operation saw Qakbot traffic redirected to servers that […]
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded TurbineOne a multiyear contract to prototype new machine learning capabilities with potential applications in force protection, industrial equipment geolocation and improving the experience in intelligence operations centers. TurbineOne is expected to work with the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s FutureG and 5G Office on […]
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded 15 companies a combined $15 million in Small Business Innovation Research phase two contracts to prototype mission-relevant capabilities over two years. DHS’ SBIR program, managed by the Science and Technology Directorate, allocated roughly $1 million to each awardee. Dimitri Kusnezov, DHS undersecretary for science and technology, said the […]
Northrop Grumman fielded its deep-sensing and targeting platform during the 2023 iteration of the U.S. Army’s Experimental Demonstration Gateway Event. The company said it integrated DSaT capabilities into a CRJ-700 plane to enable intelligence collection capabilities that reach beyond local sensors’ visual line of sight. Northrop added that it fused multidomain data for rapid dissemination […]
The National Infrastructure Advisory Council has approved a new report warning that U.S. water systems are unsustainable and increasingly vulnerable to cyber threats and climate change. According to the report, rising demand for fixed water supply and decades of underfunding are also contributing to issues in the water and wastewater industries. To address such problems, […]
