Heidi Shyu, the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said generating new capabilities for warfighters through modeling and simulation, rapid prototyping, and acquisition and sustainment is a key focus of her office. Speaking during a panel at the Sea-Air-Space Summit at National Harbor, Maryland, Shyu said […]
Government agencies can now purchase Seagate Government Solutions’ BarraCuda 515 M.2 solid-state drive through Carahsoft Technology’s resellers and contract vehicles, including General Services Administration Schedule, NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, E&I Cooperative Services and The Quilt. Cigent Technology’s cybersecurity enhancements were integrated into the SSD to deliver advanced security features, Carahsoft said. The BarraCuda […]
The National Background Investigation Services, the federal government’s one-stop-shop IT system for end-to-end personnel vetting, is planning to award a software asset management contract to an unnamed Native Hawaiian small business. The plan was unveiled in a notice posted on SAM.gov after a new consolidated acquisition method for NBIS was approved in March. According to […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory, in partnership with Northrop Grumman and Calspan Flight Research, has conducted in-flight testing of communication systems using radio frequencies above 300 GHz, known as the terahertz band. During the three-day flight experiment held in December 2022 in New York, AFRL researchers explored the potential of THz band frequencies to support […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has announced the four companies that won the fourth and final phase of the Command Dashboard Integrating Next-Gen Technology Challenge. During the CommanDING Tech Challenge, participants submitted and demonstrated new virtual incident response dashboards that provide first responders with improved user interface and user experience; video, sensor and […]
NASA has selected Navy Capt. Gregory Reid Wiseman as the commander of the second Artemis moon mission planned for launch no earlier than November 2024. Wiseman previously worked on the International Space Station in 2014 as a flight engineer for Expedition 41. Before flying to the ISS, he led NEEMO21, a 16-day NASA mission that […]
Science Applications International Corp. reported $1.97 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of the fiscal year 2023, up 10 percent compared to the same period in FY 2022. SAIC’s full fiscal year 2023 revenue, meanwhile, is four percent more than the FY 2022 revenue. According to SAIC CEO Nazzic Keene, a 4×24 member and […]
Rear Adm. Stephen Tedford, program executive officer for unmanned aviation and strike weapons at Naval Air Systems Command, said the Hypersonic Air Launched Offensive Anti-Surface missile the U.S. Navy is developing would probably fall in the Mach 4-plus category, meaning HALO does not qualify as a hypersonic weapon. Hypersonics fly at least five times the […]
BlueHalo has completed the acquisition of Verus Technology Group, which develops and manufactures security technology products and services for the Department of Defense, the intelligence community and federal law enforcement organizations. According to BlueHalo CEO Jonathan Moneymaker, a 4×24 member and a 2022 Wash100 awardee, bringing Verus into BlueHalo will allow his company to deliver […]
The Transportation Security Administration said more airports will accept mobile traveler IDs to verify the identity of passengers. Currently, 19 airports in Arizona, Colorado, Maryland and Utah are accepting digital identity credentials as part of the mobile ID pilot test. During a congressional budget hearing last week, TSA Administrator David Pekoske said the trial will […]
