Orion Space Solutions, an Arcfield subsidiary, has announced the launch of its Rapid Revisit Optical Cloud Imager satellite to demonstrate the spacecraft’s capabilities to support Space Systems Command’s weather forecasting function. The electro-optical/infrared weather system cubesat was sent into orbit aboard the SpaceX Transporter-10 rideshare mission launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 4. […]
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released a report showing that health care and public health institutions, manufacturing establishments and government facilities were the top three ransomware attack targets in 2023. The ranking was based on the 1,193 incident reports that the IC3 received from U.S.-designated critical infrastructures, with metrics like financial losses also […]
Carlsbad, California-based Viasat has partnered with vehicle launch and space systems supplier Rocket Lab USA in space communications networks demonstrations for the NASA Communications Services Project on a near-Earth orbit communication network to replace the agency’s Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System. Viasat will perform the demonstrations as part of two CSP contracts totaling $80 […]
The Transportation Security Administration and the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate will begin pilot tests in mid-March of a prototype self-service screening system for passengers at the Las Vegas Harry Reid International Airport. The system for testing at the airport’s TSA Innovation Checkpoint features screening rules and standards as rigorous as the […]
Seattle, Washington-based Rendered.ai has partnered with Carahsoft Technology to bring its synthetic data generation platform to the public sector. Under the partnership, Carahsoft will be the Master Government Aggregator for the Rendered .ai platform, bringing the solution to government customers through Carahsoft’s resellers and government supply mechanisms, such as the National Association of State Procurement […]
The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command’s Army Research Lab has tapped technology, science and engineering solutions provider ECS as a system integrator for extending artificial intelligence capabilities to Department of Defense services and warfighter commands. ECS will perform the task under a three-year, $190 million contract it secured in the third quarter of 2023. […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Procurement Operations has issued a sources sought notice to assess contractors’ capabilities to support the DHS Office of Chief Information Officer in implementing the new DHS Architecture, Development, and Platform Technical Services 2.0 program. The services and products defined in the sources sought include program and project management, […]
Gen. James Slife, newly confirmed U.S. Air Force vice chief of staff, said he will be turning to industry for assistance in using data more effectively to improve the service branch’s training, maintenance and other operations. Speaking at a recent AFCEA luncheon, Slife observed that many USAF databases are unorganized for generating service-wide solutions. He […]
Rapid innovation outpacing regulation-setting is among the main challenges that government agencies have to overcome when implementing their artificial intelligence strategy, an executive of San Francisco-based software company MuleSoft, said. David Egts, Mulesoft’s chief technology officer, told Digital First Magazine in an interview that advanced AI models are useless if organizations are not allowed to […]
The House and Senate budget committees have approved a $24.875 billion 2024 NASA spending bill, down 2 percent from the 2023 budget and 8.5 percent less than the agency’s proposed $27.185 billion appropriation for 2024. The congressional appropriations bill shelved funding decision on NASA’s Mars Sample Return program, as the agency is reexamining the MSR […]
