Three House Armed Services Committee members have proposed creating a federal working group, dubbed the Cybersecurity, Risk Inventory, Assessment and Mitigation Working Group, focused on addressing the cybersecurity gaps the Government Accountability Office found in nuclear weapon systems. In a September 2022 report, GAO said the National Nuclear Security Administration has been relying on advanced […]
AFWERX has awarded CesiumAstro a $3.6 million contract to equip a General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper remotely piloted aircraft with a satellite communications terminal and demonstrate the equipment’s capability to enable high-throughput connectivity for defense applications. The award was secured after introducing a new multibeam active electronically steered array antenna that can link with satellites in […]
Lt. Gen. John Shaw, U.S. Space Command deputy commander, said his organization is working to achieve a sustainable, safe and secure space domain, which is now in the “Third Space Age.” Speaking at the 5th Summit for Space Sustainability hosted by the Secure World Foundation, Shaw highlighted the need to accelerate approaches to sustainability and […]
Bluescape has signed a distribution agreement with Carahsoft to make a digital workbench platform more accessible to the public sector. The Bluescape visual collaboration platform, designed to provide remote and hybrid teams with a common digital workspace, holds Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program authorization at the Moderate impact level and a Defense Information Systems […]
Kaschit Pandya, the chief technology officer at the Internal Revenue Service, will begin performing the duties of the tax agency’s chief information officer in an acting capacity in addition to his responsibilities as CTO. Jeff King, the acting CIO at the IRS since March, will vacate the role in the coming weeks to return to […]
NASA has awarded a Group Achievement Award to the Raytheon Technologies team that contributed to the development of the James Webb Space Telescope Flight Operations Subsystem, which started operating on Dec. 25, 2022. The subsystem enables command and control, telemetry analysis, ground contact scheduling, observation plan management, and data retrieval for astronomers and the scientific […]
The University of Colorado Boulder’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics will build a cubesat for NASA to support the James Webb Space Telescope’s exploration of exoplanet atmospheres. LASP will develop the satellite under the space agency’s mission, titled “Monitoring Activity from Nearby Stars with UV Imaging and Spectroscopy,” to observe and measure the ultraviolet […]
The Department of Defense Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is hosting the sixth iteration of the Global Information Dominance Experiment in partnership with the Joint Chiefs of Staff. GIDE involves activities designed to evaluate military applications of various technologies and machine learning and artificial intelligence models to advance the Joint All-Domain Command and Control […]
Luke McFadden, former senior vice president of Avantus Federal’s civilian division, has taken on the role of SVP at Gunnison Consulting Group’s homeland and justice division. Gil Dussek, Gunnison’s CEO and a 4×24 member, said McFadden brings to the company over two decades of experience delivering tangible outcomes and results, driving a diverse and growing […]
A senior Department of Commerce official said the agency is planning a meeting with satellite operators in July to inform an initiative to develop a space traffic coordination system. In January, the Office of Space Commerce unveiled a draft plan for the Traffic Coordination System for Space, where spacecraft location data can be shared between […]
