The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has introduced a program aimed at ensuring that chips made in the United States maintain reliability despite exposure to severe radiation. David Abe, program manager for Advanced Sources for Single-event Effects Radiation Testing, highlighted another objective, which is to accelerate the deployment of radiation-hardened processors by making testing and […]
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency has awarded Parsons a potential five-year, $170 million task order to conduct vulnerability assessments, technical support projects and design reviews under the Assessments, Exercises, Modeling and Simulation Support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple-award contract. The IDIQ contract has a maximum value of $850 million. Parsons was one of five firms to earn spots […]
The U.S. Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems is planning to implement a continuous integration/continuous delivery approach to software acquisition in compliance with policy reforms. The Army Materiel Command is currently responsible for maintaining software produced by PEO EIS program management offices. Under the new acquisition paradigm, PMOs will oversee the entire development process, […]
House and Senate lawmakers seek to impose new cyber incident reporting rules as part of a proposed amendment to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act. If passed, the new version of FISMA would require all federal agencies to alert Congress and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency when major attacks occur. The secretary of defense […]
The White House has published a National Cybersecurity Strategy implementation plan assigning 65 counter-threat efforts to 18 federal agencies. One directive instructs the Office of Management and Budget to speed up other agencies’ information technology modernization programs to phase out expensive and vulnerable old systems. Another initiative compels the OMB and the Office of the […]
NASA has called off Janus, a mission to investigate binary asteroids using two small satellites. The two spacecraft, built by Lockheed Martin and the University of Colorado Boulder, are expected to be stored at an agency facility until an application arises. Daniel Scheeres, principal investigator for Janus at CU Boulder, said at a meeting on […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Charles River Analytics a $1.6 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract to continue a project to build an artificial intelligence capable of rapidly adapting to changes in the real world. Titled “Probabilistic and Relational Inferences in Dynamic Environments with Compositionally Organized Learning To Reason About […]
Microsoft has parted ways with Rick Wagner, president of its federal segment. A company representative told FedScoop that Wagner stepped down “to pursue other opportunities.” Wagner, a 4×24 member and 2023 Wash100 winner, assumed the role of president at Microsoft Federal in 2020. According to his LinkedIn profile, he led a unit supporting various federal […]
Capt. Christina Hicks has transitioned out of her role as commanding officer of the U.S. Navy Cyber Defense Operations Command. During a change of command ceremony in late June, she was officially replaced by Capt. Sharon Pinder. Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach, Naval Information Forces commander, served as presiding officer for the event. Sany Radesky, the […]
Carahsoft Technology will make available to federal agencies a new user behavior monitoring offering from cybersecurity company Exabeam through reseller partners and contract vehicles such as the General Service Administration Multiple-Award Schedule, the Department of Defense Enterprise Software Initiative blanket purchase agreement and NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V. Steve Jacyna, Carahsoft’s director of emerging […]
