The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Innovation Center has pioneered the federal use of the Databricks Unified Analytics Platform in the Azure for Government cloud to facilitate health care payment and delivery in the U.S. Data management company NewWave provided the cloud-native data processing capability for CMMI in line with the health care agency’s […]
Robotic Skies has entered into a partnership with Autonodyne to provide services, including field maintenance, in support of the latter’s mission-critical systems and solutions for unmanned aerial systems. According to Steve Jacobson, chief executive officer of Autonodyne, the company is keen on building architectures to facilitate unrestricted UAS flights in the national airspace. Jacobson considers […]
The Air Force has announced its intent to award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts amounting to $950M over the next five years to actualize the Joint All Domain Command and Control concept. The 28 contractors vying for task orders under the IDIQ contracts will be tasked with leveraging open-system designs, modern software and algorithm developments to help mature […]
Science Applications International Corp. has received a $60M cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price contract from the Navy to provide heavyweight and lightweight torpedo testing services for the Naval Sea Systems Command. As prime contractor, SAIC will help the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport conduct tests and obtain data on MK 48 heavyweight torpedoes and MK 54 […]
Information technology veteran John Zangardi has been named as the new president of Redhorse, a technology services company based in Washington, D.C. Zangardi, a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, officially took the reins of the company on June 1, putting him in charge of Redhorse’s daily operations. The new president lauded the company’s expertise in […]
Donald Davidson joined software company Synopsis in February 2019 as the director of cyber supply chain risk management programs. In his nearly one-and-a-half-year tenure at Synopsis, Davidson has been assisting in the establishment of a new Chief Security Office in the Office of the President, while also providing hardware and software assurance to enable trusted […]
Stuart Jones has been serving as the supply chain management director for LMI since October 2015, putting him at the helm of the company’s day-to-day cost, quality and schedule execution of defense contracts. The role requires Jones to lead a team of analysts in providing the deputy assistant secretary of defense for supply chain integration […]
Cloud security company Port53 has announced a partnership with TrustMAPP, a cybersecurity performance assessment provider, aimed at enhancing businesses’ protection against cyber threats. As part of the partnership, TrustMAPP will share its assessment capabilities with Port53 to evaluate the security posture of the latter’s clients in line with the requirements-gathering phase of each engagement. TrustMAPP’s […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has created a mathematical formula that significantly improves the ability of wireless networks, including 5G, to select and share communications frequencies. As indicated in a post on the NIST website, the new formula, which can be programmed into the transmitters of real-world networks, is about 5K times more […]
Researchers from the Army Research Laboratory and the University of Southern California have come up with a new cybersecurity technique that is expected to improve soldier graph analytics. The novel design framework, called GraphSAINT, parallelizes training on the Graph Neural Network, a fundamental aspect for deep learning on graphs, which ARL researcher Rajgopal Kannan considers […]
