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TSA to Seek Comments on Requiring Pipeline, Rail Operators to Hire Third-Party Cybersecurity Assessors

The Transportation Security Administration will solicit input from the transportation industry about its plan to maximize the use of third-party assessors to ensure the compliance of critical pipeline and rail operators with its planned cybersecurity regulations. According to an advance notice of proposed rulemaking, comments should include the benefits or challenges that operators would face […]
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Gecko Robotics Wins SBIR Contract to Support Modernization of ICBM Launch Facilities

Gecko Robotics will continue its development of crawling robots integrated with concrete evaluation technology to support the modernization of the intercontinental ballistic missile launch facilities and other infrastructure of the U.S. nuclear triad. Work will be performed under an 18-month $1.5 million Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Air Force Nuclear […]
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DOD Seeks to Hire Cyber Workers With Training From Apprenticeship Programs

The Department of Defense has encouraged DOD offices and military forces and the defense industrial base to hire workers who do not hold an educational degree but underwent cybersecurity training approved by the Department of Labor or state-level apprenticeship agencies. Recently, William LaPlante, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, and John Sherman, DOD chief […]
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GOES-U Weather Satellite Completes Thermal Vacuum Testing

The GOES-U environmental satellite has completed thermal vacuum testing, a process that puts the spacecraft under extreme temperatures to ensure it can survive the harsh conditions during launch and in-orbit operations. GOES-U is the fourth and last satellite in the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-R Series carrying advanced technology to provide timely and more accurate weather […]
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ICF Secures Two Digital Modernization Contracts From CMS to Improve Access to Public Health Data

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has awarded ICF two contracts to make public health data more accessible to health care professionals and the public. Under a $25 million task order, which includes a six-month base and four 12-month option periods, ICF will enhance, operate and maintain the agency’s health data-sharing website. The second […]
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NIH Launches Website for Anonymous Reporting of Self-Administered COVID-19 Test Results

The National Institutes of Health has launched a new website that will allow the public to anonymously report positive or negative results of self-administered COVID-19 tests. MakeMyTestCount.org was developed through NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostic technology program with support from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. Rapid test kits are now widely used […]
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KBR Wins $156M Contract to Support UH-60V Black Hawk Upgrades

KBR will provide capabilities assessment and enhancement support for the U.S. Army’s UH-60V Black Hawk fleet under a $156.7 million task order awarded through the Department of Defense Information Analysis Center’s multiple-award contract vehicle.  In partnership with Northrop Grumman, KBR will build technical solutions that will allow the Utility Helicopter Project Office and its international […]
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USSOCOM Awards Viasat $325M Satellite Communication Equipment, Network Integration Services Contract

Viasat will supply satellite communications hardware and provide technical support and network integration services to the U.S. Special Operations Command under a five-year, $325 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. Work will support the Program Executive Office-Command, Control, Communications and Computers Tactical Communications Systems at USSOCOM. The IDIQ was awarded to Viasat on a sole-source basis, extending the […]
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