The U.S. Army is further streamlining its procurement activities by integrating its modernized contract writing platform with the web-based General Fund Enterprise Business System, the service branch’s financial management system. The integration, which the Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems and the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Procurement rolled out […]
IBM and NASA’s Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team have jointly developed a comprehensive toolset of large language models open for researchers to access curated scientific data from diverse sources. Called INDUS, the toolkit enables research on five scientific domains, including Earth science and astrophysics. The LLM suite also offers improved data access from peer-reviewed […]
The Air Force Special Operations Command has tested Shift5’s observability platform for onboard operational technology to gather and analyze data from a flying aircraft to detect cybersecurity anomalies in real time for dispatch to a Department of Defense cloud environment. The technology demonstration follows a General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. announcement in May that it […]
New York-based technology firm Merkle Science has entered into a partnership agreement with Carahsoft Technology for the latter to serve as the distributor of its crypto forensics solution, Tracker, to the government sector. Government agencies can purchase the service through Carahsoft reseller partners, NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise Solutions – Software […]
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and 2024 Wash100 winner, has announced that the Constellation-class guided missile frigate FFG 67, which went under contract for construction in May, will be named USS Galvez. The Navy official announced the future warship’s name during the advanced Fourth of July celebration at […]
The Department of Defense’s Joint Fires Network prototype demonstrated during the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s Valiant Shield 2024 exercise held from June 7 to 18 incorporated Lockheed Martin’s digital command and control capabilities. According to the company, the JFN demo tested third-party solutions as an infrastructure component in addressing combatant commands’ immediate needs and supporting the […]
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has awarded a two-year, $19 million contract to Palantir Technologies for a data infrastructure streamlining the agency’s core workflows. The contract calls for the use of Palantir’s AIP and Foundry software in the development of a strategy and system enabling rapid collection of data from various sources for […]
Brig. Gen. Frank Lozano, U.S. Army program executive officer for missiles and space, disclosed that the service is preparing for a five-year project to develop a new weapon for its Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2. Lozano, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, told Breaking Defense at the recent Eurosatory defense trade show in […]
The Department of Energy’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response plans to convene representatives of the renewable energy industry and cloud service providers later in 2024 to define each sector’s cybersecurity responsibilities. The cybersecurity requirements from both sides have to be established so that the emerging energy sector will have that built-in security in […]
COMSovereign Holdings, a Tucson, Arizona-based communications technology company, is seeking to grow its footprint in the government and Department of Defense markets through a partnership agreement with information technology and services firm Intelligent Waves headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As a partner, IW would be the integrator and management services provider supporting COMSovereign’s sales to U.S. […]
