The Coast Guard Cyber Command has formed a new cyber protection team to provide assessment, threat hunting and incident response capabilities to the Marine Transportation System, which the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency identified as a part of the critical transportation systems sector. The 2003 Cyber Protection Team, deployed to Coast Guard Island, is the […]
A new version of a Senate bill requiring NASA to launch a program addressing the increasing amount of orbital junk is now advancing to full Senate consideration after it was approved by a voice vote during a Senate Commerce Committee executive session. In his remarks at the session, Sen. John Hickenlooper, the lead sponsor of […]
Stephen Streiffer is set to join Oak Ridge National Laboratory as its new director in October. UT-Battelle, which operates ORNL for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, appointed Streiffer, who currently serves as interim director at DOE’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. He took on the role as Stanford University’s vice president for SLAC in […]
The Senate has approved four amendments to its version of the fiscal 2024 National Defense Authorization Act that would require the Department of Defense components to address vulnerabilities in artificial intelligence-powered systems. The amendments package, called “AI, Group of Four,” includes language directing the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office to create and implement a […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs is seeking industry input on the agency’s identity, credential and access management modernization effort. According to a request for information, the VA wants the industry to share ICAM best practices and solutions that can improve the department’s ICAM reliability, usability, functionality and resiliency. The RFI was released after the VA […]
A new office has been officially established within the Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors to better meet the cyber warfare needs of the U.S. Army. The Project Management Cyber and Space office will use an acquisition approach tailored to support the Army cyber community. Brig. Gen. Ed Barker, PEO for IEW&S, said […]
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a potential five-year follow-on contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to expand the deployment of the Thunderdome zero trust security and network architecture program. The follow-on production other transaction authority agreement has a one-year base period that will begin in August and four one-year option periods. Under the OTA, […]
Astrobotic will showcase its renewable power generation and distribution solution for systems on the lunar surface. The LunaGrid-Lite demonstration effort will be performed under a $34.6 million NASA Tipping Point partnership. As part of the mission, an Astrobotic 6U CubeRover carrying a spool of cable and an Astrobotic Griffin lunar lander equipped with solar arrays […]
The Departments of Commerce and Defense have agreed to increase information sharing about their investments in strengthening domestic chip production to ensure their efforts are complementary. Exchanging information is part of a memorandum of agreement the agencies recently signed in support of the CHIPS and Science Act, which provides $52.7 billion for American semiconductor research, […]
The Transportation Security Administration has released an updated security directive requiring oil and natural gas pipeline owners and operators to test and evaluate at least two cybersecurity incident response plan objectives. The oil and gas industry was ordered to create incident response plans to strengthen their cyber resilience and defense capabilities against cyberattacks under previous […]
