Spire Communications, an Alexandria, Virginia-based strategic communications firm, announced that its team-up with Integrity Management Consulting has secured a task order to provide website hosting and maintenance services to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. The team will work under an ONC blanket purchase agreement with a total value of $9.5 million […]
NASA has shipped to the Kennedy Space Center the Space Launch System rocket’s second core stage that Boeing built at the agency’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans for the crewed Artemis II moon flyby mission scheduled for 2025. At the space center in Florida, the core stage will be assembled with other mission components, […]
The UH-72 Lakota helicopter has rapidly logged flight hours in various missions for the U.S. Army, U.S. Army National Guard and U.S. Navy, accumulating more than 1.5 million flight hours as of July 17, according to the aircraft’s manufacturer, Airbus U.S. Space & Defense. Robert Geckle, the company’s chairman and CEO, described the milestone as […]
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has announced the signing of a statement of intent for U.S.-Singapore cooperation in defense data analytics and artificial intelligence deployment. Signed by the Department of Defense’s chief digital and artificial intelligence officer and Singapore’s deputy defense secretary for technology, the SOI will promote ethical AI use and interoperability of U.S. […]
The U.S. Marine Corps is soliciting industry inputs on lightweight dismounted counter small uncrewed aircraft systems to help its troops defend against small drones. The request for information covers squad-level and platoon-level C-sUAS, which troops can easily train with and use. Proposed squad-level solutions should have a negligible impact on dismounted Marines’ primary missions and […]
CRISP Shared Services, a Columbia, Maryland-based nonprofit, has been selected as one of the three contract awardees of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s $255 million National Implementation Center Program to modernize public health data systems. The program, funded under the CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure Grant, will be implemented over the next three years, […]
The U.S. Space Force has appointed Air Marshal Paul Godfrey of the U.K. Royal Air Force as assistant chief of space operations for future concepts and partnerships, an unprecedented recruitment of a non-U.S. officer to the USSF headquarters staff. In his new USSF air marshal role, equivalent to the lieutenant general rank, Godfrey will advise […]
Eight contractors are expected to compete for a multiyear, $3 billion Department of Defense contract to procure commercial data and artificial intelligence-driven analytics services for monitoring Indo-Pacific threats. The capabilities will be procured under the DOD’s Long-Range Enterprise Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Activity program on information processing from platforms on the ground, in the air […]
The White House has issued a memorandum outlining to heads of executive departments and federal agencies the Biden administration’s cross-agency cybersecurity investment priorities for the fiscal year 2026 budget. The directive, which was released on Wednesday, identifies the budgeting focus from the five pillars of President Joe Biden’s National Cybersecurity Strategy. One of the budget […]
The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office has issued a request for proposals on a portal for technologies assuring secure and reliable AI use in the Department of Defense and providing a branding/digital marketing solution to the platform. The initiative aligns with the DOD’s goal of ensuring responsible AI use while maintaining leadership in technological […]
