The Department of Justice has awarded Cloudburst Security a spot on its 10-year, $1.9B multiple-award blanket purchase agreement that calls for the delivery of a broad array of cybersecurity services and products. The BPA consists of task orders involving cybersecurity policy, planning communications and compliance support, cybersecurity engineering and operations, security operations, insider threat and […]
Mark Lewis, director of defense research and engineering for modernization, believes that the Department of Defense needs to adopt a less risk-averse mindset to successfully develop hypersonic weapons that would offer warfighters mission-critical advantages in the battlefield. In an interview with the Hudson Institute in Washington, Lewis asserted that the department has to be willing […]
The Senate's latest version of the Fiscal Year 2021 defense budget proposes an additional $120M in research funding for the Department of Defense’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program. Despite the absence of a request for such an increase, some senators are pushing for bigger appropriations for the space-based anti-hypersonic weapons program, citing China’s […]
The General Services Administration has awarded no-cost contracts to Amazon Business, Fisher Scientific and Overstock.com to advance its goal of procuring products through commercial e-commerce portals. With the contracts in tow, GSA can now test the use of commercial e-commerce portals for purchases below $10K using a proof of concept on a three-year period. According […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has reinforced its detection and mitigation efforts against governmentwide cyber threats in response to increased potential malicious network activity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking at the Cybersecurity Transformation Summit 2020, Richard Driggers, CISA’s deputy assistant director for cybersecurity, said the agency funneled its cybersecurity resources through the Continuous Diagnostics […]
The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and Purdue University’s Institute for Global Security and Defense have formalized an agreement that allows both institutions to harness their respective hypersonic expertise and capabilities. The partnership centers around hypersonic research and related technologies, with emphasis on microelectronics, quantum information, integrated data science, artificial intelligence and robotics. As part […]
The Missile Defense Agency has awarded Raytheon Missiles & Defense a $2.3B contract to produce seven gallium nitride-based AN/TPY-2 radars in support of Saudi Arabia’s procurement of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system. The requested radars are expected to power the THAAD systems shooting down incoming short, medium and intermediate-range ballistic missiles with a […]
The Air Force aims to leverage artificial intelligence for improved network defense to allow the service’s cyber workforce to prioritize higher-level tasks, including white-hat hacking. Lauren Knausenberger, chief innovation officer for the Air Force, believes that AI could be maximized to rid human workforces of tasks like performing bug fixes and assessing threat reports. To […]
Dovel subsidiary Ace Info Solutions has landed an Alliant task order under the Transportation Security Administration’s Flexible Agile Scalable Teams contract. Specifically, AceInfo will handle the contract’s operations support portfolio and help address the TSA’s reliance on legacy technology by enabling the Agile design, development and production of applications like microservices, software-as-a-service, mobile applications and […]
The Air Force has advanced its digital modernization goals, which mainly involve enhancing its digital enterprise and cybersecurity capabilities, as it adapts to the increasing demand for telework capabilities. Speaking at the GovLoop webinar, Air Force Chief Technology Officer Frank Konieczny said the service is geared towards providing both airmen and its critical partners with […]
