Four new vulnerabilities found in Microsoft and Apple products were added on Tuesday to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s catalog of system flaws that malicious threat actors frequently exploit to gain access to federal civilian executive branch networks. The Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog contains recommended actions to protect the federal enterprise. FCEB agencies are […]
Sen. Jon Tester, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, has expressed support for the Department of Veterans Affairs’ rollout of a new electronic health record system despite Republicans pushing legislation seeking to terminate the EHR deployment over technical and performance issues. Lawmakers have criticized the Oracle Cerner system since its deployment began […]
The Government Accountability Office has published a new report urging federal agencies to step up efforts to protect the privacy of sensitive data. The government watchdog conducted a review of 24 agencies in September 2022 and found that most of them established processes to identify types of personal data collected, performed privacy impact assessments and […]
UiPath’s robotic process automation software was deployed during a recently concluded RPA Roadshow aimed at identifying business processes at Edwards Air Force Base that can be automated using the technology. The Air Force Test Center Directorate’s Continued Process Improvement and Innovation office hosted the event, which took place from Feb. 7 to 9, involving all […]
NASA has announced the crew who will fly to the International Space Station as part of the second Axiom Space private astronaut mission. Peggy Whitson, Axiom Space’s director of human spaceflight and a former NASA astronaut, was selected as the Axiom Mission 2 commander. Joining Whitson on the mission are John Shoffner of Knoxville, Tennessee, […]
Maj. Gen. Heather Pringle, commander of the Air Force Research Laboratory, has announced the U.S. Air Force nominees for the 74th Annual Arthur S. Flemming Award. Pringle, who will speak at the Potomac Officers Club’s 9th Annual Defense Research and Development Summit on March 23, congratulated AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate engineers Andrew Metcalf and Preston […]
The defense industrial base lost approximately 17,000 companies in the past five years, according to David Norquist, president and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association. Speaking at a House Armed Services Committee hearing, he also highlighted a more than 40 percent decline in the number of DIB workers. Norquist, a past Potomac Officers Club […]
The Department of Energy is seeking public and stakeholder input on the planned launch of a foundation designed to support companies and organizations that deal with energy technologies that could support the agency in achieving its clean energy goals. The Foundation for Energy Security and Innovation’s creation is authorized under the CHIPS and Science Act […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded SimX an additional $1.7 million in research and development funding to expand the capabilities of the company’s virtual reality technology for medical simulation training. With the new funding, the value of the partnership between the Air Force and SimX under the Virtual Advancement of Learning for Operational Readiness program […]
MongoDB’s database-as-a-service offering has secured moderate authorization from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. With the designation, U.S. government agencies can now use MongoDB Atlas for Government to deploy MongoDB clusters on Amazon Web Services GovCloud in the U.S. East and U.S. West regions. The DBaaS deployment allows government organizations to utilize the document […]
