The U.S. Air Force has awarded Amentum a $245 million contract to support the Defense Technical Information Center’s research, development, test and evaluation efforts for microelectronics facilities and laboratories. The DTIC performs the RDT&E work for the U.S. Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs and the Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Strategic Microelectronics Division. Research and development, […]
The Department of Health and Human Services has published a letter urging UnitedHealth Group to expedite the activation of its programs designed to mitigate the impact of a ransomware attack on its claims processing and payments platform. UHG is the parent company of Change Healthcare, which is the subject of the cyberattack on Feb. 21. […]
CGI Federal has secured the spot previously held by Sierra7 in the potential 10-year, $60.7 billion Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology Next Generation 2 contract vehicle. The Department of Veteran Affairs selected 30 companies in October 2023 to provide information technology solutions and services under the T4NG2 IT contract. Half of the awards were set aside […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has authorized an Amazon Web Services end-to-end messaging and collaboration encryption solution to operate in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region at the high-impact level. With the authorization, customers can use the AWS Wickr encryption service to secure data subject to FedRAMP’s high requirements. Wickr is designed to protect […]
Xwing will showcase its uncrewed flight capabilities to the U.S. Army through a Phase 1 Small Business Innovation Research contract under the Army xTech SBIR Autonomy program that would enable its participation in live operational demonstrations to perform autonomous airlift and logistic missions. Autonomous technologies will bridge mission capability gaps to improve transport, force structure […]
Airship AI Holdings said an agency within the Department of Justice has awarded the company a contract to provide an artificial intelligence-enabled video and sensor data management platform. The agency will deploy the Acropolis Enterprise Sensor Management platform in a cloud environment that complies with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s security requirements. Acropolis […]
The National Science Foundation is seeking proposals from academia and industry experts to advance protein design using artificial intelligence. Under the agency’s Use-Inspired Acceleration of Protein Design program, the NSF will award funding worth $40 million over three years to accelerate new protein design applications in various fields, including medicine and environmental protection, Nextgov/FCW reported. […]
RunZero will participate in the second cohort of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator. CECA is designed to identify disruptive solutions that can address security gaps in the electrical grid and speed up the testing and evaluation of the technologies to reduce time to market. RunZero offers a platform comprising cyber asset […]
NASA researchers are investigating retropropulsion, the leading deceleration technology option for a safe human landing on Mars. Retropropulsion would eliminate the use of parachutes and instead fire rocket motors installed in a spacecraft’s heat shield to decelerate, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory said. Supercomputers running NASA’s suite of computational fluid dynamics simulation and design tools […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Cemetery Administration will improve its Veterans Legacy Memorial online platform to speed up responses to veterans’ pre-need eligibility determination requests for burial in a VA national cemetery. While the NCA has already reduced the time needed for answering such requests to a few days, Matthew Quinn, VA undersecretary for […]
