James Holtsnider, charge d’affaires of the U.S. embassy in Kuwait, met with Maj. Gen. Eng. Mohamed Bouarki, head of Kuwait’s National Center for Cybersecurity, to talk about strengthening mutual cyber efforts. Speaking to the press, Holtsinder said the two countries would team up to develop Kuwaiti cybersecurity infrastructure and protect critical facilities and communication networks […]
Radiance Technologies is partnering with Peraton to support the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Missile and Space Intelligence Center as part of a potential five-year, $284 million task order. The award was made under the Solutions for Intelligence Analysis 3 Countering Advanced Conventional Weapons Analytical Requirements contract vehicle. Peraton and Radiance are expected to study ballistic missiles, […]
The Space Development Agency is asking commercial firms to provide input regarding technologies that could be integrated into the Tranche 2 Demonstration and Experimentation System, a set of roughly 20 testbed satellites for future capabilities. T2DES is part of the Transport Layer, a planned 216-satellite constellation meant to facilitate soldier communications and data transmission. The […]
The Department of Defense is working with SpaceX to deliver communications services to Ukraine using the Starlink satellite constellation. The cost and other details of the effort remain classified to maintain operational security. SpaceX, which has provided Starlink access in Ukraine since 2022, has expressed concern about the use of the network to facilitate combat […]
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories have selected seven recipients of a combined $3.5 million for one to three-year projects relating to heliostats, sun-tracking mirrors that direct light to receivers for energy storage and potential power generation. NREL and SNL are the leading organizations behind the Heliostat Consortium, […]
Northrop Grumman has completed a preliminary design review of a missile-warning terminal as part of a $99.6 million contract with the U.S. Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. The company said the PDR for Relay Ground Station-Asia was completed one month ahead of schedule. Aaron Dann, vice president of strategic force programs, said the assessment surpassed […]
Cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike announced that it has secured Department of Defense Impact Level 5 provisional authorization. IL5 is DOD’s highest security classification for controlled unclassified information, which can include mission support and national security services details. The new status enables the department’s national security systems, the intelligence community and federal agencies to use CrowdStrike’s Falcon […]
Amazon Web Services and L3Harris Technologies are developing advanced networking and sensor fusion capabilities as part of a new agreement. The companies are undertaking projects aimed at providing near-real-time dataset access to the military. In a press release, L3Harris said such datasets can be used with artificial intelligence to update radars and sensors “cognitively and […]
Information technology and business consulting firm CGI Federal has concluded a test of Microsoft Azure Orbital Cloud Access and Nokia private 5G capabilities in Marine Corps Platform Integration Center systems at Blount Island Command, Florida. MCPIC is a supply chain management program that uses digital tagging, automation and internet of things sensor technology. CGI Federal […]
Leaders from various intelligence agencies recently spoke on hurdles to establishing secure and reliable cloud access to information technology services and classified data. Fred Ingham, a CIA employee assigned to serve as the National Reconnaissance Office’s deputy chief information officer, cited limited governance as one reason for a lack of multicloud or hybrid cloud infrastructure […]
