The 96th Logistics and Readiness Squadron at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida has devised an asset-tracking system called Real-Time Inventory Management. Through unique radio frequency identification tags affixed to each weapon and piece of equipment, service members assigned to the base’s Readiness Center warehouse are able to monitor the entry and exit of such […]
Members of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee have proposed legislation that would strengthen the Department of Energy’s existing research partnerships with NASA and the National Science Foundation. Reps. Brandon Williams and Eric Sorensen put forward the DOE and NASA Interagency Research Coordination Act to facilitate ongoing efforts to develop lunar surface infrastructure and […]
Final tests are underway for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3, a $250 million program aimed at demonstrating new positioning, navigation and timing technologies that can weather jamming, spoofing and other forms of interference. Frank Calvelli, the Air Force’s assistant secretary for space acquisition and integration, told lawmakers at an April 26 hearing […]
The U.S. government is encouraging the private sector to adopt secure-by-design, which involves minimizing vulnerabilities in software and holding vendors responsible for keeping such products safe. The concept is a pillar of the White House’s national cybersecurity strategy and is endorsed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Jack Cable, senior technical adviser at CISA, […]
Seven startups have won phase 1 other transaction awards worth a combined $1.4 million from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to develop tools supporting the generation, reporting and management of software bills of materials, which list the “ingredients” that constitute computer programs. SBOMs contain the various components and dependencies used to […]
Top officials from the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Department of Justice and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have vowed to enforce existing rules to mitigate bias in artificial intelligence as everyday usage of the technology ramps up. A letter detailing the issue and ongoing efforts to address it was signed by Lina Khan, […]
Don Yeske, the Department of the Navy’s acting chief technology officer, said the recent leak of classified documents on the instant messaging platform Discord could have been detected sooner had the Department of Defense completed its implementation of zero trust. He explained at a C4ISRNET conference that zero trust assumes a breach has occurred, leading […]
The U.S. Army’s Tactical Aviation and Ground Munitions project office has awarded AeroVironment a $64.6 million firm-fixed-price contract to acquire more Switchblade 300 loitering missile systems, portable, single-use drones that launch from a tube and crash into targets. According to a press release, the deal stipulates foreign military sales to France and an unspecified allied […]
Light Steering Technologies, an aerospace manufacturer headquartered in New Hampshire, has secured a $1.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX to enhance the Multi-Axis Scanner, a magnetic joint affixed to mirror with three linear actuators. Its intended function is similar to that of a gimbal. Aaron Castillo, LST senior vice president of business […]
Data from the Department of Defense’s Space Surveillance Network will power the early operations of the Department of Commerce’s Traffic Coordination System for Space, a planned space object management solution aimed at fulfilling a Trump-era mandate to transition domain awareness responsibilities away from the U.S. Space Command. Once operational, TraCSS would provide basic-level services to […]
