The U.S. and India have agreed to streamline the selection and funding process of research projects involving scientists and engineers from the two countries. Officials from the National Science Foundation and Taranjit Singh Sandhu, India’s ambassador to the U.S., signed an implementation arrangement during the U.S.-India Initiative on Critical and Emerging Technologies dialogue at the […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Intelligent Waves a $99.9 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity follow-on contract to continue providing hardware and software integration services in support of the 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron’s Crowd Source Flight Data program. Under the contract, Intelligent Waves will download, process and offload significant data from Quick Reaction Instrumentation Package-equipped aircraft. Work […]
House lawmakers have asked the Department of Energy to provide documents related to the cyberattacks directed at three national laboratories for investigation. The cyber incidents, which took place between August and September 2022, targeted the Brookhaven National Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, all of which conduct research aimed at […]
Hydrosat will provide thermal infrared remote sensing data analytics services to the National Air and Space Intelligence Center for flight planning, surveying helicopter landing zones and other uses under a $1.2 million contract from AFWERX. The start-up has developed a platform that analyzes satellite data, including surface temperature data from NASA’s MODIS and Landsat spacecraft, […]
The Department of the Air Force will hold the latest Bravo hackathon at Hurlburt Field in Florida from March 20 to 24. Those who wish to participate have until Feb. 15 to submit their applications. According to DAF Chief Digital Transformation Officer and hackathon organizer Stuart Wagner, a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, the event […]
NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center has partnered with IBM to use the company’s AI technology to advance research on climate change through the rapid analysis and extraction of new insights from the agency’s Earth and geospatial science data. Projects under the partnership include developing an artificial intelligence foundation model to enhance weather and climate prediction […]
James Blue, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the CEO of Figure Eight Federal, a company that provides artificial intelligence solutions to clients in a variety of industries including defense. Blue joined the company in June 2022 from Idemia, where he spent two years as a senior vice president and chief financial officer for North […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is setting up a supply chain risk management office to help agencies, industry and other partners comply with the latest guidance and policies for security IT supply chains. CISA’s project management office for cyber supply chain risk management is being headed by Shon Lyublanovits, a former official at the […]
The Department of the Treasury Inter-American Foundation is modernizing its grants management approach using REI Systems’ GovGrants software-as-a-service offering. According to the company, IAF selected GovGrants to support the modernization effort because it provides an accessible, role-based and secure grants management system; complies with the Federal Integrated Business Framework; and offers the multilingual capability to […]
Intermap Technologies has secured its first task orders under the Department of Defense’s $920 million Janus Geography indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide geospatial products for a federal intelligence agency. Intermap is a small business that employs artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to deliver 3D geospatial intelligence products with hydro, objects and advanced terrain features. Similar […]
