The Department of the Air Force and the Federal Aviation Administration have signed an agreement to facilitate commercial rocket launches at two Space Force ranges. The memorandum, signed June 15, eliminates red tape, including duplicative processes and approvals, that hinder commercial space activities at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Vandenberg Space Force Base, C4ISRNET […]
Hassane El-Khoury is the chief executive officer, president and a member of the board of ON Semiconductor. El-Khoury is a seasoned technology sector executive with an understanding of customer and design requirements in the automotive and industrial markets. He is knowledgeable in consumer electronics, microcontrollers, printed circuit board design, sensors, product engineering and electrical engineering, […]
Manish Bhatia is the executive vice president of global operations at Micron Technology, a memory and storage solutions provider headquartered in Boise, Idaho. Bhatia assumed his current position in October 2017. His responsibilities cover wafer fabrication, integrated circuit assembly and test, solid state drive manufacturing, supply chain planning, procurement, quality and global information technology, according […]
The Technology Modernization Fund Board has seen more proposals being submitted for priority consideration since the implementation of a new repayment scheme for federal agencies. Speaking at a MITRE-hosted event, Deputy Federal Chief Information Officer and TMF Board Member Maria Roat said she was impressed with the influx of proposals after payback requirements were relaxed […]
Verizon Public Sector has received a $495 million contract to provide network solutions in support of the Department of Defense’s research efforts. The contract provides for the delivery of switches, routers, firewalls and edge compute capabilities for the department’s Defense Research and Engineering Network and High Performance Computing Modernization Program, Defense News reported. DREN serves […]
The House Homeland Security Committee has called for more funding increases to enable the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to more effectively carry out its mission. The lawmakers raised their concerns during a recent hearing with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Panel members are convinced that CISA’s budget needs to be pushed higher given the […]
The Navy wants to reduce the minimum number of manned ships that will be part of its future fleet. According to an updated shipbuilding plan submitted to Congress, the Navy is targeting to build a fleet with 321 to 372 manned ships. The lower limit of that estimate is 34 ships short of the much-talked-about […]
Legislation reintroduced by House lawmakers would give K-12 institutions federal support to thwart cyberattacks, which have become rampant amid the COVID-19 crisis. If signed into law, the Enhancing K-12 Cybersecurity Act would appropriate $20 million over the next two years to support a K-12 Cybersecurity Technology Improvement Program. Headed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security […]
NASA reported that the Hubble Space Telescope stopped working on June 13 due to a problem in its payload computer. Engineers speculated that a degrading memory module is to blame for the computer’s malfunction. The space agency initially proposed replacing the faulty component with a backup memory module before restarting the telescope’s science instruments and […]
The Air Force and the Navy are looking to finalize an agreement that would enable interoperability of their software factories. According to Navy Chief Technology Officer Jane Rathbun, some details of the agreement are still being worked out, including how to best create a collaborative environment integrating both the Air Force’s DevSecOps platform, dubbed Platform […]
