Arizona State University will build a microelectronics development center called Southwest Advanced Prototyping Hub in Scottsdale, with a $39.8 million award from the Department of Defense. SWAP is one of the eight regional innovation hubs that the DOD has selected for a total of $238 million funding under the CHIPS and Science Act. According to […]
McLean, Virginia-based consulting firm Guidehouse will provide the FBI’s Office of Chief Information Officer with information technology services under a five-year contract. According to the company’s press release announcing the contract award, the OCIO seeks assistance in maintaining customer-centric IT resources, boosting business functions, defining enterprise technology standards and ensuring interoperability of enterprise services. The […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has signed a memorandum of understanding with South Korea’s National Intelligence Service on cybersecurity collaboration areas. The MOU, signed on Thursday by CISA Director Jen Easterly and South Korea’s Deputy Director of the National Intelligence Service Baek Jong-wook, follows through on the bilateral Cyber Framework that President Joe Biden […]
Ball Aerospace, Parsons, General Dynamics and Omni Federal have been awarded contracts for Phase 1 of the Space Systems Command’s Future Operationally Resilient Ground Evolution Command and Control project. The contracts, valued at $9.75 million per company, were awarded via the SSC’s Space Enterprise Consortium, according to consortium manager NSTXL. The Phase 1 awards are […]
The U.S. Navy is planning to deploy in 2024 an L3Harris-made unmanned undersea vehicle designed for launch from a submarine torpedo tube, Rear Adm. Rob Gaucher, special assistant to the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said. Speaking at the Naval Submarine League’s annual symposium on Wednesday, Gaucher added that such deployment is “going to be a […]
BWX Technologies has announced that it will manufacture the components for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Joint Emergent Technology Supplying On-Orbit Nuclear, which will develop technologies for nuclear-powered spacecraft. The Lynchburg, Virginia-based company disclosed in a press release that it will work under a Lockheed Martin-led team, including Space Nuclear Power Corp. According to Joe Miller, the […]
The Department of Defense’s Defense Innovation Unit has tapped Rocket Lab, a Long Beach, California-based launch services and space systems provider, for a Hypersonic Accelerator Suborbital Test Electron mission. According to a Rocket Lab press release issued on Wednesday, the Australian company Hypersonix Launch Systems will deploy the suborbital payload DART AE for the HASTE […]
The Internal Revenue Service announced on Thursday that its Paperless Processing Initiative’s first goal has been achieved, with taxpayers now able to send digital correspondence and responses to the IRS three months ahead of schedule. The tool, launched in February 2023 as a key component of the IRS digitization program, opened the agency’s capability to respond […]
The Department of Homeland Security, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Federal Emergency Management Agency have jointly launched the Shields Ready campaign to enhance the critical infrastructure community’s resilience to disruptions due to changing environments. According to a press release on the campaign’s media launch in Long Beach California, on Tuesday, Shields Ready […]
The Department of Defense is soliciting industry proposals for its Advanced Rapid Analysis of Cyber Hunt Network Infrastructure Data program to address digital threats on various DOD and partner networks. According to a solicitation published by the DOD’s Defense Innovation Unit on Monday, the preferred proposals are readily available and commercially viable solutions providing such […]
