The National Reconnaissance Office and the U.S. Space Force’s NROL-107 mission, also called SilentBarker, achieved geostationary Earth orbit Sunday for surveillance of U.S. adversaries in space. The mission was launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. According to NRO Director Chris Scolese, SilentBarker will […]
Communication systems provider Genasys announced on Thursday that the U.S. Department of Defense has placed new orders for its two long-range acoustic device models worth $1.6 million. The orders include LRAD-1950XLs for the U.S. Special Operations Command in Europe, LRAD 360-XT mobile communications trailers for the African units of the U.S. Navy and spares for […]
Carahsoft Technology has signed an agreement to serve as a public sector distributor of Semperis’ identity threat detection and response platform. The solution’s contracts will be made available through Carahsoft’s resellers and the National Association of State Procurement Officials’ ValuePoint, National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and OMNIA Partners. The partnership with Carahsoft dovetails with the expansion […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s AFWERX directorate has awarded a $1.13 million contract to Branch Technology under the USAF’s Small Business Innovation Research program. The funding calls for the development of a 3D-printed retrofit system for insulating the exterior walls of buildings. Under the award, the Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company will work on a 3D-printed […]
The Department of Defense has found several security problems in the commercial cloud services offered by Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability vendors and wants to work with them to address the issues, Dave McKeown, DOD chief information security officer, said at the Billington Cybersecurity Summit on Tuesday. The JWCC, the Pentagon’s $9 billion enterprise cloud program, […]
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced on Tuesday $20 million in total grants to 49 state and territory international trade agencies under the 2023 State Trade Expansion Program. State government entities and nonprofit organizations at the local level manage each of the awardees, which were chosen via a competitive application process. According to agency chief […]
The Department of Justice announced on Tuesday that Verizon Business Network Services has agreed to a $4.1 million settlement to resolve False Claims Act allegations of failure to fully satisfy cybersecurity controls on government contracts. The claims stemmed from lapses in three cybersecurity controls required in internet connection and other external network contracts that the unit […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has taken a forward-leaning approach to artificial intelligence, the agency’s director, Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, said during the Department of the Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower conference on Aug. 30. Skinner, a 2023 Wash100 awardee and a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, said AI is being leveraged especially on […]
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command will partner with the Defense Innovation Unit to create the Joint Mission Accelerator, a new INDOPACOM directorate to advance the command’s top priorities. DIU Director Doug Beck, a Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said during the Aug. 28 session of the National Defense Industrial Association’s emerging technology conference that his organization […]
The Department of Defense is launching the Center for Calibrated Trust Measurement and Evaluation to assist the U.S. armed forces in determining the trustworthiness of military systems powered by artificial intelligence. Kim Sablon, director for trusted AI and autonomy at the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, said the pilot center […]
