Representatives of the U.S. Marine Corps’ 8th Communication Battalion joined allied soldiers from the United Kingdom, Finland, Norway and Sweden in the Nordic Response 2024 cyber defense training exercise in Rovaniemi, Finland. The 72 participants in the event, held from March 5 to 14, undertook simulations of repulsing cyberthreats against national defense information systems. The […]
REI Systems’ GovGrants software-as-a-service has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization at the moderate impact level, making the platform available to government agencies seeking a secure grants management solution. The SaaS is configurable and fully automated, with its full lifecycle system based on the FedRAMP-certified Salesforce cloud platform designed for internal and external […]
The U.S. Cyber Command is working with the Defense Intelligence Agency to pilot programs expanding the Department of Defense’s cyber intelligence efforts, according to two top military officials. Gen. Timothy Haugh, Cybercom commander and National Security Agency director, revealed the joint efforts at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Wednesday, stressing that the growth of […]
The Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division announced that the Joint Hypersonics Transition Office has selected the five winners of its Hyper-AMPD! prize challenge Phase I seeking new concepts for the speedy development and flight testing of hypersonic models for rapid integration into existing Department of Defense platforms. The winners, invited to advance to the […]
The Department of the Air Force has appointed Chandra Donelson as its acting chief data and artificial intelligence officer, concurrent with her position as Space Force space data and AI officer, the DAF’s chief information officer announced in a LinkedIn post on Tuesday. Eileen Vidrine, who retired in March, previously held the Air Force CDAO […]
The General Service Administration’s Technology Transformation Services will start a pilot program in May to add facial recognition to the verification features of Login .gov, the GSA’s single-sign-on platform for easy and secure online access to government services. All Cabinet agencies have adopted the platform for user identification on at least one program or application […]
Eleven biotechnology research projects receiving funding from the National Science Foundation will get additional investments under the NSF’s $5 million pilot partnership program with the nonprofit NobleReach Emerge. The program, which was launched in January 2023, aims to position the research projects toward commercial applications through additional support. The projects were selected based on grant […]
BAE Systems has announced the launch of the Weather System Follow-on Microwave satellite that its newly acquired company, Ball Aerospace, earlier delivered to the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command. Sent into orbit via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday, the satellite will provide environmental monitoring data […]
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Chemical Biological Center has developed through 3D modeling a sensor that detects harmful chemicals, which is potentially useful for warfighters and first responders. Called Chemically Reactive On-demand Materials, or ChROMa, the additive manufacturing system is designed to 3D-print a sensor that changes color when it comes into contact […]
NASA is seeking to advance its global leadership in preserving space through the Space Sustainability Strategy that the agency rolled out on Tuesday. According to Pam Melroy, NASA deputy administrator and a Wash100 award winner, the already busy space is “only getting busier,” and the strategy’s implementation is a timely move to ensure that the […]
