The U.S. Army has selected three contractors to support the integration of five business systems into a single platform called the Enterprise Business Systems-Convergence. Under other transaction authority agreements awarded by the Army Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems and Army Contracting Command-Rock Island, the vendors will each develop an EBS-C prototype in support of […]
A group whose members belong to five Italian cyber research teams won the recent Hack-A-Sat competition held from Aug. 11 to 14 at Def Con 31 in Las Vegas. The group, called mHACKeroni, beat four other teams in hacking Moonlighter, a 3U cubesat launched to the International Space Station on June 5 aboard a SpaceX […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has hosted a three-day election security exercise to prepare for potential cyber and physical incidents during the 2023 and 2024 elections. The exercise, dubbed Tabletop the Vote, began on Wednesday in partnership with the National Association of Secretaries of State and the National Association of State Election Directors. It […]
Col. Elliott Leigh, AFWERX director and chief commercialization officer for the Department of Air Force, has informed entrepreneurs, educators and researchers of the funding opportunities that can help them advance their dual-use and defense-specific technologies. Speaking at a recent Academia Days outreach event in Ohio, Leigh told participants from various universities, institutions and businesses that […]
A small satellite Lockheed Martin Space is building for a NASA lunar exploration mission is now in its final assembly and testing phase following the integration of the Lunar Thermal Mapper. As part of the Lunar Trailblazer satellite, the LTM will gather moon temperature data at different times to identify the lunar surface’s thermal properties […]
The Space Development Agency has awarded SpaceX, Kuiper Government Solutions and Aalyria Technologies contracts worth $1.6 million in total to conduct 90-day studies that would inform the SDA on existing or planned commercial technologies for low-Earth orbit backhaul services. According to the SDA, the studies involve connecting LEO satellite systems to the Proliferated Warfighter Space […]
The National Archives and Records Administration is planning to publish its inventory of artificial intelligence use cases on the public-facing website AI .gov to build transparency into the agency’s AI technology projects. Currently, the public is restricted from having access to NARA’s inventory uploaded to Max .gov, an internal federal information-sharing platform operated by the […]
Martin Klein, a 4×24 member, has returned to ECS as vice president of analytics and artificial intelligence. His responsibilities include overseeing strategic digital transformation initiatives in the defense and intelligence markets. According to his LinkedIn profile, he first joined the company in August 2017 as a program manager then worked his way up to become […]
The National Science Foundation has awarded $38 million in funding to 22 projects under a program aiming to increase quantum information science and engineering research capacity, training and education at U.S. colleges and universities. The Expanding Capacity in Quantum Information Science and Engineering program awards were split into two tracks. Track 1 awards of up […]
RTX, formerly known as Raytheon Technologies, said its space sensor has moved to the development and testing phase following the completion of NASA’s critical design review. The Geostationary Littoral Imaging and Monitoring Radiometer is being built to operate in geostationary orbit where it would serve as NASA’s hyperspectral imager, RTX said. GLIMR will gather data, […]
