Finnish satellite manufacturer Iceye has signed an agreement to explore how synthetic-aperture radar imagery and data can benefit the U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Technical Center. Iceye and the SMDTC will look into how SAR satellite tasking, SAR data downlink, image processing and image dissemination can address requirements by the Army and the Department […]
Federal Chief Information Security Officer Chris DeRusha is considering adopting a workforce recruitment strategy similar to the U.S. Digital Service’s tour-of-duty model to attract federal tech talent in the short term. Applicants hired under the USDS model serve a maximum term of four years but DeRusha wants to onboard talent for shorter stints of about […]
Michael Burch is the vice president of commercial risk at KBR, a Houston, Texas-based provider of science, technology and engineering solutions. Burch took on the role in February 2018. Since then, he has been in charge of commercial management and commercial risk groups, as well as global enterprise risk management efforts, according to his LinkedIn […]
Gen. John Murray, commanding general of the Army Futures Command, said enabling joint situational awareness during Project Convergence 2021 turned out to be more difficult to achieve than he initially thought. Murray, a former Potomac Officers Club event speaker and past Wash100 winner, attributed the difficulty to the dissimilarity between the situational awareness tools used […]
The Department of Homeland Security has been cleared to begin building its Cybersecurity Service following the approval of necessary policy changes. The DHS will start hiring new cyber specialists for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, with the goal of onboarding the initial 150 new hires in 2022. According to DHS officials, the first cohort […]
Planet Federal has received another extension to its existing commercial satellite imagery contract with the National Reconnaissance Office. The company has been providing daily 3 to 5 meter resolution images to the NRO since 2019 under the terms of a multi-year subscription service contract. The latest extension would allow NRO to use Planet Federal’s imagery […]
Octo will partner with Raft on a $36 million contract to support the Cloud Computing and IT Integration effort of the U.S. Air Force’s Kessel Run software factory. The deal calls for the provision of DevSecOps software engineering expertise, Kubernetes infrastructure and multi-region platform services as part of the Cloud CITI initiative. Contract work will […]
Scout Space, a startup based in Alexandria, Virginia, has secured a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research contract from the U.S. Air Force to improve space domain awareness. Under the terms of the contract, Scout Space will leverage ground- and space-based sensor data to more accurately track space debris and predict collisions, SpaceNews reported. The […]
Ken Bible, the Department of Homeland Security’s chief information security officer, has raised concerns about the adoption of self-assessments under the revamped version of the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The CMMC, which initially required all defense contractors to be evaluated by third-party assessors, was simplified so that companies seeking level 1 […]
Uma Amuluru is double hatted as vice president and chief compliance officer of aerospace company Boeing. Her LinkedIn profile shows that she was appointed to her current position in May 2020. Since then, Amuluru has been in charge of Boeing’s ethics and compliance program. Part of her job is to proactively address legal and compliance […]
