A Department of Veterans Affairs official has opposed Senate bills seeking to make the VA’s electronic health record system comply with new certification requirements prior to its deployment to new sites. The Oracle Cerner EHR system is already operational at five locations, including Spokane VA Health Care System, VA Walla Walla Health Care and Roseburg […]
HII has selected Gecko Robotics to support U.S. Navy surface ships maintenance work under a contract worth $5 million. Gecko will deploy its wall-climbing ultrasonic inspection robots to identify vessel parts in need of repair or preventive maintenance and gather data to create digital models of ships using the company’s artificial intelligence-enabled software platform. The […]
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, the White House nominee to be the next Army chief of staff, said the military service is considering expanding the application of the Department of Defense’s Cyber Excepted Service to accelerate the recruitment of civilian cyber professionals and provide them with more flexible retention options. At a […]
NASA’s Johnson Space Center has partnered with the University of Texas Aerospace Center to establish a new facility that provides NASA’s aerospace workforce the opportunity to learn more about digital engineering and encourages students to become engineers. The Digital Engineering Design Center allows enrolled individuals to work on in-situ resource utilization-related projects, which are critical […]
A low-cost missile target from a U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command Technical Center team was launched from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, on July 7 to test the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor system. The Army said Economical Target-2 is a spin-stabilized, unguided target that serves as a tactical ballistic […]
Boeing and Intel have agreed to jointly explore new microelectronics applications in the aerospace industry, with the aim of developing and manufacturing next-generation semiconductors that can improve flight capabilities and high-performance edge-computing solutions. Intel Public Sector Vice President and General Manager Cameron Chehreh, a 4×24 member and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said the collaboration provides […]
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has selected Flexion to modernize the agency’s claims processing system. CMS awarded the company a Modern Claim Adjudication Development Services contract, under which Flexion will enable the U.S. health coverage provider to accept and process dental claims through the updated system. In November 2022, the agency published the […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has teamed up with the University of Rochester and Google to explore the potential of artificial intelligence to identify irregular heart rhythms in firefighters. Electrocardiogram data from over 100 firefighters generated by the university and machine learning were used to train an AI model called Heart Health Monitoring […]
Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support has awarded ADS a $38 million contract to deliver ultra-broadband, man-portable jammers for the U.S. Army. ADS selected Parry Labs as a subcontractor responsible for producing the systems designed to protect soldiers from the latest improvised explosions and electromagnetic threats. Certified bomb technicians conducting explosive ordnance disposal operations will use […]
The Senate Armed Services Committee’s version of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2024 includes a provision that seeks to make the deployment of cyber personnel from the individual military services to U.S. Cyber Command more uniform. The provision calls on the secretary of defense to require the military services to conform to […]
