The Department of Defense has created three new assistant defense secretary positions within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and announced the individuals appointed to the roles on an interim basis. Maynard Holliday, a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, was named acting assistant secretary of defense for critical technologies, Steven […]
An undisclosed government agency has awarded System High a $49.9 million contract to provide classified IT destruction services that meet mission protection requirements. Doug Kumbalek, chief strategy officer at System High and a 4×24 member, said the contract will help the agency advance the overall protection of national security. Work under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will […]
Three House Democrats have urged the Office of Management and Budget to require federal agencies and vendors to adopt the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s AI Risk Management Framework. Reps. Zoe Lofgren, Ted Lieu and Haley Stevens made the call in a letter sent to the OMB. The framework, released in January, was created […]
Jay Lewis, formerly a partner at Microsoft’s Silicon Projects, has joined the CHIPS Research and Development Office, where he will oversee programmatic and functional areas supporting the National Semiconductor Technology Center. The Department of Commerce expects that a new independent, nonprofit entity would begin operating the NSTC, which supports the development of innovative semiconductor technology […]
Cynthia Kaiser, deputy assistant director within the FBI’s Cyber Division, said restricting the ability of ransomware actors to cash out illegal proceeds is a more effective way to deter cybercriminal groups from attacking various entities compared to just arresting individuals involved in the cybercrime. During a recent Safe Mode podcast, Kaiser shared that ransomware actors […]
U.S. Army Secretary Christine Wormuth, a 2023 Wash100 winner, said at the recent Aspen Security Forum that the first Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon battery is expected to be delivered and fielded by fall 2023. An LRHW unit is armed with ground-launched hypersonic missiles that can travel well over 3,800 miles per hour and reach distances of […]
Amazon is planning to build a $120 million satellite construction facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in support of the Project Kuiper constellation. The satellite internet architecture is designed as a competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink constellation, which now has over 4,000 spacecraft providing satellite communications to customers in various sectors. Amazon’s new establishment will […]
Brookhaven National Laboratory has selected John Hill as its new deputy director for science and technology, replacing Robert Tribble, who held the role for eight years. Hill has served the Department of Energy-supported laboratory since 1992 in various capacities, most recently as the director of the National Synchrotron Light Source II, a DOE Office of […]
OwnBackup’s software-as-a-service data protection platform has achieved authorization at the moderate impact level from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The OwnBackup Government Cloud solution, now listed on the FedRAMP Marketplace, is designed to manage and protect mission-critical data and metadata from Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and ServiceNow, among other SaaS environments. The FedRAMP […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has selected Macom Technology Solutions to develop advanced gallium nitride-on-silicon carbide semiconductor process technologies for millimeter-wave monolithic microwave integrated circuit products. Work will be performed under a multiyear research and development contract valued at $4 million. The contract provides funds to improve the performance of existing GaN-on-SiC technologies for next-generation […]
