L3Harris Technologies announced that it has won two contracts valued at up to $134 million in support of the Department of Defense’s ground-based space surveillance and command centers. Secured under the U.S. Space Force’s Maintenance of Space Situational Awareness Integrated Capabilities program, one of the contracts calls for updating the Ground-Based Electro-Optical Deep Space Surveillance […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center and the FBI issued on Wednesday their jointly developed manual identifying malicious cyber tactics and countermeasures against hackers. The agencies’ work, titled “Phishing Guidance, Stopping the Attack Cycle at Phase One,” details two common hacker objectives: phishing for […]
Lt. Gen. Michael Guetlein, commander of the Space Systems Command, disclosed several U.S. initiatives to step up partnerships with its allies in the space domain, where there are shared threats as well as economic opportunities. Speaking at the AFCEA Space Industry Days conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Guetlein said the U.S. has already partnered […]
HII’s Mission Technologies division has received a $244 million task order from the U.S. Air Force’s 774th Enterprise Sourcing Squadron to add Minotaur software solutions to the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard’s maritime platforms. According to HII, research, development, test and evaluation are included in the software integration contract for the three military […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is soliciting proposals for its Transfer from Imprecise and Abstract Models to Autonomous Technologies program, geared toward developing rapid learning methods able to deliver same-day autonomy transfer. TIAMAT is envisioned as a two-phase program featuring sim-to-sim and sim-to-real model competitions. Each phase runs for 18 months, with the first […]
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division has opened a new National Cyber Range facility to provide a secure virtual environment for technology developers to test solutions for cyber vulnerabilities. According to the Naval Air Systems Command, the new facility, located at the Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, will focus on cyber testing […]
Accenture Federal Services and Google have formed the Cybersecurity Center of Excellence as part of a new partnership to support U.S. federal agencies’ rapid detection and response to cyberattacks. The center expands the two companies’ alliance that began with the Accenture Google Cloud Business Group in 2018 and was further broadened in April. The new […]
Amazon Web Services’ Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community will list the Databricks platform, enabling its users to unify all their data, analytics and artificial intelligence on one platform, Databricks announced on Monday. According to Aaron Kinworthy, Databricks’ vice president of federal sales and a 4×24 member, the platform integrates elements enabling its users to […]
The Department of the Navy is now looking at ship-mounted cloud computing infrastructure for sailors to remain connected in remote, limited-connectivity environments, an official said at an industry event in Alexandria, Virginia, on Friday. The Navy’s acting chief information officer, Jane Rathbun, told the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association NOVA Naval IT Day’s attendees […]
The NASA spacecraft Psyche, designed for a six-year journey to a metal-rich asteroid 2.2 billion miles away, was launched aboard a SpaceX rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Friday, the agency announced. Psyche’s voyage, NASA’s first mission to a metallic asteroid, aims to probe further Earth’s origins and to test the agency’s […]
