Thales will deliver 4,000 additional Improved Multiband Inter/Intra Team Radios to the U.S. Army for the Leader radio program. The new order, valued at $100 million, is the fifth award Thales received from the military branch under the Full Rate Production-2 contracting effort, increasing the number of IMBITR units that the Army purchased to over […]
NASA has awarded Kongsberg Satellite Services USA and SpaceLink with contracts valued at $162,000 and $190,000, respectively, to study direct-to-Earth and lunar space relay communications and navigation capabilities existing in the market for the Artemis moon missions. The companies will determine commercial offerings that would improve the transmission of critical data between spacecraft and ground […]
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command has conducted a cybersecurity exercise involving Navy reservists to strengthen system defenses against cyberattacks. During Operation Cyber Dragon, performed from March to August, participants were successful in securing unclassified computer networks from cyber threats. It resulted in upskilling individuals with no or little technical experience and led to the creation of […]
Tanesia Barrow serves as the president of information technology and management consulting firm Barrow Wise Consulting. In the said role, she leads the firm and is responsible for developing new transformative solutions. Barrow founded the company in 2012 after more than a year working as a senior business development manager at Lockheed Martin’s IT business […]
Jared Shepard is the president and CEO of Hypori Virtual Mobility, a software-as-a-service company that offers cybersecurity and critical data protection through a zero trust/zero data-at-rest architecture. The executive is a U.S. Army veteran who previously served as lead technical planner for III Corps G6. He is the founder and board chair of veteran-focused nonprofit […]
Qlik’s Cloud Government platform is now available on the FedRAMP Marketplace under authorized products. The company recently secured the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s Authorized designation at the Moderate impact level and the Department of Defense IL2. The Cloud Government platform offers government agencies with artificial intelligence-enabled analytics, centralized data assets and catalog and […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has selected Forward Edge-AI’s technology to modernize the agency’s procurement processes as part of FEMA’s 2022-2026 Strategic Plan. Forward Edge-AI was awarded a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research contract to transform acquisition methods and provide greater spending visibility through the use of blockchain, robotic process automation, data analytics and […]
BAE Systems demonstrated its Long-Range Precision Guidance Kit to the U.S. Army at Yuma Proving Ground. LR-PGK was combined with 155 mm artillery projectiles launched from the U.S. Army’s Extended Range Cannon Artillery. James McDonough, LR-PGK program director at BAE Systems, said the guidance kit helps the Army “deliver accurate fires up to 70 kilometers and […]
The Hawaiian defense department has revealed that several systems were targeted by a distributed denial of service attack, which the agency linked to the Russia-based hacker group Killnet. Officials said the DDoS attack focused on systems hosting the landing page for 15 state airport websites, including the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport. Hawaii’s Office of […]
NASA has confirmed that the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos changed its orbit after it was hit by the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft on Sept. 26. The moonlet previously took 11 hours and 55 minutes to revolve around its larger parent asteroid Didymos. Following DART’s impact, Dimorphos had its orbit time changed to 11 hours and […]
