U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has announced a body camera pilot program to improve how ICE law enforcement officers execute search warrants, field questioning and at-large arrests and searches. Agents taking part in the pilot will receive training on how to use the devices and briefing on how to adhere to the ICE directive outlining […]
Hunter Strategy, a cyber risk and DevSecOps firm headquartered in Washington, D.C., is set to continue providing cyber modernization strategies and solutions to the Office of the Director within the National Institutes of Health. Work falls under a subcontract extension that the firm first secured with Digital Management Inc. in 2020. Efforts will revolve around […]
Marines are expected to receive their first batch of Integrated Visual Augmentation System goggles as scheduled in 2022 despite rollout delays caused by inconsistencies in the heads-up displays and moisture control problems in the device. The IVAS program, headed by the Army’s Program Executive Office-Soldier, is aimed at providing warfighters with enhanced situational awareness as […]
NASA has sent bandages made from 3D bioprinted material to the International Space Station as part of a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft resupply mission. The spacecraft took off via a Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Station in Florida carrying more than 6,500 pounds of science experiments, crew supplies and other cargo. The launch marked […]
Jeremy Knepper is a long-time leader at Collins Aerospace and currently serves as the company’s senior director of quality. Since assuming the position in November 2018, he has been in charge of all strategic and tactical quality assurance operations across the company’s mission systems business unit. Knepper’s primary areas of responsibility include customer satisfaction, product […]
Department of the Air Force Chief Information Officer Lauren Knausenberger, a past Potomac Officers Club speaker and 2021 Wash100 winner, is leading the creation of an enterprise-wide automation strategy that includes plans to expand the service’s use of robotic process automation. Knausenberger, who recently made an appearance at an AFCEA NOVA event, is looking to […]
The Department of Homeland Security is expanding the scope of its new bug bounty program to incentivize ethical hackers to find and patch log4j-related vulnerabilities in its systems. The bug bounty program, announced by DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Dec. 14, offers $500 to $5,000 in rewards for hackers depending on the severity of flaws […]
The Defense Logistics Agency has launched a program to invite citizen developers to undergo training for developing robotic process automation tools. The program has already moved past the beta phase and will be rolled out across the rest of the organization, DLA Chief Information Officer George Duchak told Nextgov at the sidelines of the Roadmap […]
VISIMO is partnering with Colorado State University to provide the Air Force Research Laboratory with a generator that can rapidly create synthetic, annotated image datasets for training machine learning models. The development effort is part of a 15-month, $750,000 Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer award secured by VISIMO. Work focuses on improving the capabilities […]
The Department of Defense has released assessment guides for fulfilling level one and two requirements under the rebooted Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. The level one guide calls for defense contractors to conduct a self-assessment of their networks, which, according to the head of a certified assessment organization, is redundant as it closely resembles a […]
