The Department of Housing and Urban Development is adopting an artificial intelligence-enabled risk management platform to automate the way it monitors grant spending. The Argus platform has yet to be deployed across the entire agency but Wilmer Graham, HUD’s chief risk officer, estimates that once it is fully implemented, time spent manually monitoring program grantees […]
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly and National Cyber Director Chris Inglis backed a bill introduced by Sens. Gary Peters and Rob Portman that requires critical infrastructure operators to report internal cyber breaches to CISA within the first 72 hours of detection. Speaking at a Sept. 23 Senate hearing, Easterly described incident reporting […]
The Government Accountability Office has asked the Space Force to provide more realistic estimates of the cost and timeline for its Next-Generation Overhead Persistent Infrared constellation. Next-Gen OPIR is being designed by prime contractor Lockheed Martin and is billed as the nation’s next premier missile warning satellite constellation for detecting missile threats all over the […]
Amanda Kane currently serves as the cybersecurity director of Guidehouse, a management consulting firm headquartered in Washington, D.C. Kane has more than 12 years of federal consulting experience, which she mostly spent supporting national security and health care clients. She is committed to strengthening organizations’ security posture by advancing cybersecurity capabilities and establishing new and […]
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $29.9 million task order that calls for research support services for the National Cancer Institute Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology. Work under the task will help enhance NCI’s Clinical Trials Reporting Program as the go-to information source for cancer-related clinical trials, facilitate data access across the cancer […]
The Defense Innovation Unit has selected STR to participate in virtual technology demonstrations in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s “Golden Horde” program. One of AFRL’s high priority Vanguard programs, Golden Horde is entering a new phase in which industry’s best drone swarming technologies, including autonomous software, compete in a virtual “Colosseum” environment. As […]
Eleven Army and four Navy units responsible for communications satellites are slated to be absorbed by the Space Force. The transfer is slated for Oct. 1 barring a continuing resolution that could delay the process, Chief of Space Operations Gen. John Raymond said at the Air, Space & Cyber conference. According to Raymond, a 2021 […]
Joyce Coffee is the founder and president of Climate Resilience Consulting, a Chicago, Illinois-based social enterprise that seeks to enhance markets and communities through adaptation to climate change. Since the founding of CRC in 2019, Coffee has helped create a set of climate resilience principles for the financial services industry, led the National Equitable Climate […]
Science Applications International Corp. has announced new employee benefits for calendar year 2022, which, according to CEO Nazzic Keene, are being introduced because the company considers its workforce a high priority. Keene, a Potomac Officers Club member and a 2021 Wash100 Winner, said in a statement that SAIC is committed to taking steps to establish […]
L3Harris Technologies has secured a $100 million order from the U.S. Army for its combat-ready enhanced night vision goggle-binocular systems. The order falls under a $442 million contract. The Army has received more than 6,000 ENVG-B systems since 2018, L3Harris said. ENVG-B provides soldiers with enhanced situational awareness, allowing them to target, engage and neutralize […]
