HII’s Mission Technologies division has secured a $74 million contract to enhance the capabilities of the Mk 41 and Mk 57 vertical launching systems of U.S. Navy surface vessels. The Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Port Hueneme Division administers the task order, which also covers Navy weapon and combat systems, as well as sensors. The tasks […]
RTX business Raytheon is on track to deliver the final Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite instrumentation for the NASA-NOAA Joint Polar Satellite System after completing ahead of schedule its thermal vacuum tests for the final of the four JPSS VIIRS sensors in late 2023. According to RTX, the completed J4 tests ensure sensor integration into […]
The Department of Defense has authorized Google Public Sector to process the department’s secret and top secret classified information, as well as Intelligence Community workloads. According to Google Public Sector, its Google Distributed Cloud Hosted offering is an air-gapped solution capable of such functions as computing and storage, data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence […]
Senior U.S. Air Force officials, led by Secretary Frank Kendall, a 2024 Wash100 winner and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, observed the Agile Combat Employment capability of Kadena Air Base during a visit to the Okinawa military facility on April 6. The visitors, including Chief of Staff Gen. David Allvin and Chief Master Sgt. […]
The Department of the Air Force is working on a plan to elevate Air Forces Cyber to a major command, with the likelihood that the unit will be directly under the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff or the department secretary, former cyber officials of the service branch told DefenseScoop. AFCYBER was established in 2019 […]
The U.S. Southern Command, the European Command and the Africa Command are reportedly interested in replacing their legacy Joint Regional Security Stacks with the zero trust security and network architecture that Booz Allen Hamilton provided to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s Thunderdome program. According to Federal News Network, Thunderdome will help the commands replace their […]
The Department of Homeland Security has named Hemant Baidwan as chief information security officer. He will succeed Kenneth Bible, who retired from government service in April, an agency spokesperson confirmed to Nextgov/FCW. Already with more than eight years of DHS service, Baidwan was previously the agency’s deputy chief information security officer, tasked with strengthening cybersecurity […]
The United States and the European Union member states have vowed to continue advancing their collaboration on ways to securely leverage artificial intelligence systems via a rights-centered methodology. The commitment, which was announced after the U.S.-E.U. Trade and Technology Council meeting on Thursday in Leuven, Belgium, calls on a gathering of U.S. and European scientific […]
The U.S. Army’s new Unified Data Reference Architecture 1.0 will enable the service branch to continue advancing its modular open system approach to rapidly develop warfighting technologies. In a blog post on the Army’s website, Jennifer Swanson, the service’s deputy assistant secretary for data, engineering and software, said UDRA ushers in a series of Army […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board has recommended that Microsoft develop and publish a plan instituting security-focused reforms across its organization and products to prevent a repeat of the Summer 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online breach traced to Chinese hackers. The CSRB’s recommendation, along with other preventive measures, are contained in a report […]
