GRSi has secured a three-year contract with the U.S. Navy to support P-913, the service’s largest C4I military construction project. The Maryland-based company will provide facility support services to the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic, a unit of the Naval Information Forces dedicated to providing information superiority for global maritime and joint […]
TRX Systems and Epiq Solutions received Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contracts from the Department of Homeland Security for the creation of affordable and user-friendly in-building coverage analysis systems. ICAS capabilities developed by the companies are expected to help first responder radio and smartphone technology gain easy access to wireless service in a host […]
McAfee Enterprise and FCN are teaming up under a $281 million contract to provide several cybersecurity solutions to the Department of Veterans Affairs. According to McAfee Enterprise, it will provide the VA with its MVISION Endpoint Security, Data Loss Prevention Endpoint and MVISION EDR solutions. Rob Lalumondier, senior director of federal civilian at McAfee Enterprise, […]
Robert Gibbs, associate administrator for NASA’s Mission Support Directorate, told lawmakers that aging infrastructure represents the single, greatest threat to the space agency’s mission success. Speaking before members of the House Science Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, Gibbs said that 82 percent of NASA facilities have exceeded their original designed life. While a concrete plan […]
A top U.S. Space Force official said small nuclear reactors are a viable option for powering space missions. Speaking at a virtual forum hosted by the Mitchell Institute, Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson argued that nuclear propulsion could enable long-endurance exploration in areas like cislunar space, which could be a problem for […]
Vinod Iyengar is the newly appointed head of products at H2O .ai, an open-source software company that harnesses artificial intelligence for use cases like fraud prevention, anomaly detection and churn prediction. According to his LinkedIn profile, Iyengar leads the development of enterprise AI solutions, including the H2O AI Hybrid Cloud platform and H2O Core. His […]
The Department of the Air Force’s Chief Architect Office concluded its fifth Architecture Demonstration and Evaluation exercise, which facilitated the integration of commercial technologies into a common decision superiority mission architecture. According to Preston Dunlap, chief architect of the Air Force and Space Force, the goal of ADE 5 was to enable decision advantage across […]
Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said there is no overlap in the functions of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center and the Space Security and Defense Program. Thompson pointed out the unique value offered by the SWAC during an event hosted by the Mitchell Institute amid […]
Leaders of the House Oversight and Reform Committee believe that the National Archives and Records Administration could clear its backlog of records requests by modernizing its information technology systems. One way to achieve this is by obtaining backing from the Technology Modernization Fund, the lawmakers wrote in a letter sent to NARA chief David Ferriero. […]
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded Anduril Industries a potential $99 million contract to provide counter-unmanned aircraft system solutions as a service to military customers. The five-year deal allows the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps to purchase Anduril’s suite of artificial intelligence-enabled C-UAS solutions, which are capable of autonomously detecting, classifying and tracking […]
