Lt. Gen. Maria Barrett, head of U.S. Army Cyber Command, signed a memorandum of agreement in April with David Markowitz, acting chief information officer of the Department of the Army, to strengthen collaboration between ARCYBER and the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency. Officials said the move advances the service branch’s convergence goals for the Unified Network […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Boston-based Aqua Security a multimillion-dollar contract for cyber protection services aimed at enabling cloud expansion, zero-trust implementation and secure software development. Aqua announced that it will provide a cloud-native application protection platform consisting of a set of security and compliance capabilities that can rapidly identify and neutralize risk throughout the […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is looking for a contractor that can develop a solution for isolating and maintaining the quality of satellite communications signals where 5G radio frequency interference is present. The agency explained that SATCOM equipment bandwidths tend to overlap with those of 5G, causing signal degradation and loss. According to a project notice […]
The House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation wants to speed up the development of artificial intelligence to improve warfighters’ ability to detect and analyze electromagnetic spectrum signals. Under a mark on the fiscal year 2024 defense budget, the subcommittee urged the Department of Defense to provide forces with electromagnetic spectrum capabilities […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Columbia, Maryland-based Bigbear .ai a six-month, $8.5 million follow-on to a prime contract for the Global Force Information Management system. Bigbear .ai will work with Deloitte, Appian and Ignite IT to continue building GFIM. The contract extension also requires Bigbear .ai to migrate the system’s prototype to the cARMY cloud. […]
The Government Accountability Office has attributed delays in the Department of Defense’s acquisition programs to the inconsistent application of commercial development practices. In a new report, the watchdog cited the U.S. Navy’s DDG-1000 Zumwalt guided-missile destroyer, which saw its schedule pushed back by a year due to a request to integrate an experimental hypersonic missile. […]
Kemba Walden, the acting head of the Office of the National Cyber Director, has said the White House’s national cybersecurity strategy can lessen potential harms from generative artificial intelligence, a type of algorithm that can learn from data to produce new content. Speaking at the Amazon Web Services Summit on June 7, Walden highlighted the […]
Brig. Gen. Reid Novotny, special assistant to the director of the Air National Guard for U.S. Cyber Command J5 matters, has revealed that a hunt-forward operation was conducted by the U.S. Cyber National Mission Force somewhere in the U.S. Southern Command’s area of responsibility. CYBERCOM has not revealed precisely where the exercise took place. SOUTHCOM’s […]
Science Applications International Corp. has received a $64 million contract from the Space Development Agency to develop the Battle Management Command, Control and Communications Application Factory, a cloud-based software delivery system for the satellites that make up the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture. PWSA is SDA’s low-Earth orbit constellation aimed at facilitating communications and decision-making. It […]
The Defense Technical Information Center will train Microsoft’s cloud-based generative artificial intelligence service using defense data. DTIC is a unit of the Department of Defense responsible for storing and disseminating research and technical information. Microsoft’s generative AI capabilities are developed by OpenAI, the company behind the commercially available large language model ChatGPT. A DOD spokesperson […]
