The U.S. Army announced that it had absorbed some 350 Air Force civilian employees, as the Army Cyber Command took the Combatant Command Support Agent role for the U.S. Cyber Command, effective June 2. The Air Force had CCSA jurisdiction over USCC since the cyber unit’s inception in 2017 until Congress mandated the agent authority […]
Ontario-based threat intelligence company OpenText has added another cloud-based solution to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Marketplace, with its Cloud for Government platform achieving “fully authorized” FedRAMP status. Two company core products—OpenText Extended Enterprise Content Management and AppWorks—drive the newly authorized platform designed to deliver secure cloud services through a standardized security authorization. […]
The U.S. Army has launched a development program for the next-generation maneuver short-range air defense system against drones and other airborne threats, the first iteration of which has been fielded, said Brig. Gen. Frank Lozano, U.S. Army program executive officer for missiles and space. According to Lozano, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, rapid […]
The Naval Postgraduate School is undertaking a graduate-level education and research program in partnership with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering’s FutureG Office to help advance the Department of Defense’s next-generation wireless network capabilities. Tom Rondeau, FutureG’s principal director and a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, […]
More than 50 representatives of government agencies and their industry partners participated in a simulation exercise on efficient and organized countermeasures on artificial intelligence security breaches. The Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, which the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency formed to organize public-private cyber defenders worldwide, hosted the event at Microsoft’s Reston, Virginia, facility to support […]
The National Guard Bureau has assigned Maj. Gen. Steven Butow, California Air National Guard commander, to hold the concurrent role of military deputy director for the Defense Innovation Unit at the Office of the Secretary of Defense. More than 75 active and reserve U.S. military personnel will serve under Butow, a speaker in a past […]
Northrop Grumman has booked a new full-rate production order for the Leonardo DRS Quantum Cascade Laser system, a technology enabling the company’s Common Infrared Countermeasure designed to protect aircraft from heat-seeking, surface-to-air missiles. In May 2021, the U.S. Army awarded Northrop Grumman a five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a potential $959.1 million value to supply the […]
Artificial intelligence can help deliver a higher caliber of government services with the support of the private sector and academia, Arati Prabhakar, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy director and a Wash100 awardee, said. During an event that OTSP hosted to showcase AI’s potential and gains across 12 government research and development […]
NASA is consolidating its field centers’ information technology support service requirements into a single contract, which the agency has awarded to CACI International. The NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services contract covers a potential eight-year service, with a maximum potential value of around $2 billion. It provides a 90-day phase-in period, a nine-month base term, […]
The Department of the Air Force’s chief information officer has launched an experimental generative artificial intelligence chatbot, called NIPRGPT, on the service branch’s Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network. The new tool is designed to provide Air Force servicemen, employees and contractors the opportunity to ensure the responsible and secure use of generative AI. Venice Goodwine, […]
