Stanley McChrystal, a retired four-star U.S. Army general, has joined Accrete AI’s advisory board. He was a former commander of the U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the NATO International Security Assistance Forces and the Joint Special Operations Command. McChrystal, a former Potomac Officers Club speaker and a Wash100 awardee, developed and implemented a comprehensive counterinsurgency strategy […]
The inspector general of the Department of Justice found that the agency has yet to fully implement 745 recommendations as of Nov. 30, 2022, including proposed actions addressing issues with the management of shared information technology costs and its cyber supply chain risk. According to the latest IG report, 90 of the proposed actions were […]
The U.K. Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory placed an artificial intelligence toolbox under trials during two military exercises. The toolbox jointly developed by Dtsl and AFRL is designed to deliver mission-specific AI capabilities to warfighters in joint military missions. It provides data collected from uncrewed ground and aerial […]
L3Harris Technologies will deliver 14 Vehicle Agnostic Modular Palletized ISR Rocket Equipment weapon systems to the Department of Defense under a $40 million contract. The VAMPIRE systems will be installed on the vehicles the U.S. is providing to Ukrainian military forces to help counter ground threats and unmanned aircraft systems. Four of the VAMPIRE portable […]
NASA’s Information Technology Procurement Office plans to issue the final request for proposal for the NASA Consolidated Applications and Platform Services contract vehicle on Feb. 28, according to a presolicitation notice posted on SAM.gov. A request for comment NASA issued in early 2022 stated that NCAPS will merge the service requirements of 10 centers into […]
The Health Sector Cybersecurity Coordination Center has warned that a Clop ransomware group has developed a new tactic to steal sensitive data from health care organizations and force them to pay a ransom. According to the latest HC3 analyst note, the group has been using medical appointment requests to send infected files disguised as medical […]
Leidos will support the digital modernization work of Accenture Federal Services within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a subcontractor. AFS won a three-year $169 million cloud modernization contract with the CDC in October 2022 to enhance the agency’s IT legacy systems and accelerate their migration into a secure cloud environment. The company […]
The General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service has awarded TechFlow an $8.02 million follow-on contract to develop and sustain cloud .gov, a platform as a service designed to make the deployment of federal government applications to the cloud easy and secure. The platform also allows users to rapidly update websites, application programming interfaces and other […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has awarded Maxar Technologies two contracts worth up to $35.8 million. Under a one-year contract with a potential value of $22.5 million, Maxar will support the NGA’s Janus Geography program by providing geospatial intelligence data to characterize land cover over previously unmapped areas. The second award, worth up to $13.3 million, […]
The U.S. and Japan are expected to finalize a memorandum of understanding focused on boosting the cyber defense of both countries. Japanese Trade Minister Yasutoshi Nishimura is scheduled to meet with U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on Friday to discuss the potential defense cooperation, Nikkei Asia reported. The MOU would center on developing […]
