The White House has requested a nearly $256 billion budget for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps for the fiscal year 2024. The amount is more than $11 million compared to the $244.7 billion FY 2023 budget for the services. According to budget documents from the White House’s Office of Management and Budget, the money […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has announced its strategy for procuring digital transformation support services. According to a CISA notice posted on SAM.gov, the DTSS requirement will be set aside for 100 percent women-owned small businesses. The agency plans to hold a virtual conference on March 23 to discuss the updated acquisition strategy and […]
Parsons has received an $18 million task order under a 10-year, $953 million single-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to equip the Ramstein Air Base in Germany with air-base air-defense capabilities to counter unmanned aerial systems, cruise missiles and other threats. Work under the task order, including providing ABAD training and early warning capabilities, will be performed for […]
A new bill is seeking to establish a $10 million grant program to help small clean water and wastewater utilities better defend their systems from cyberattacks. The federal funding would be used to subsidize the fees associated with joining the Water Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a nonprofit organization comprising water and wastewater utility managers […]
A vulnerability in Xtream has been added to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. XStream contains a remote code execution vulnerability that an attacker can exploit to execute a local command on the server by manipulating the processed input stream and replacing or injecting objects. VMware Cloud Foundation, which uses the […]
Space Systems Command and NASA will launch eight experimental payloads to the International Space Station on March 14 for the Department of Defense’s space test program. The mission, called STP-Houston 9, will lift off on board a SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The STP-H9 […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Dynepic a $51 million contract through AFWERX’s Strategic Funding Increase program to improve the company’s MOTAR extended reality-optimized learning content management system. MOTAR serves as a platform where airmen can access digital training content from various vendors. With the new funding, MOTAR will integrate containerized and Unity-based training applications, […]
The U.S. Space Force is planning to create a new strategy to guide its IT modernization goals and become a digital service. Speaking at a Nextgov event, Lisa Costa, the U.S. Space Force chief technology and innovation officer, said the military service aims to rebuild its IT infrastructure to maximize the use of artificial intelligence […]
U.S. Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, said his organization has gotten better at responding to threats posed by foreign adversarial actors but it needs to continuously improve to maintain readiness and resilience. According to Nakasone, U.S. adversaries are looking for new methods to compromise U.S. systems and steal critical information. […]
The Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response within the Department of Health and Human Services has released a road map for the health care sector to implement the National Institute for Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework. ASPR developed the Cybersecurity Framework Implementation Guide in partnership with the private sector and government agencies in view of […]
