Orbital Insight is teaming up with Rendered.ai and the University of California in Berkeley to develop an object detection computer vision model for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency trained on little or no real examples of objects. The development effort is part of a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract secured by Orbital Insight. Work […]
NASA is gearing up for four Earth science missions in 2022 aimed at providing observational data on weather conditions, mineral dust, oceans and surface water. The first mission on NASA’s 2022 agenda is dubbed Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation Structure and Storm Intensity with a Constellation of SmallSats. TROPICS will feature six CubeSats scheduled for launch […]
Jeff Parsons is the executive vice president of federal business services for AECOM’s technical services division. As one of the leaders of AECOM Technical Services, Parsons delivers functional support to facilitate the execution of more than $1 billion in U.S. federal government contracts. His responsibilities span contract management, procurement, subcontract management, government security functions, government […]
Space Force officials are looking to better utilize industry solutions amid an “explosion in innovation.” Speaking at a TechCrunch-hosted event, Lt. Col. Tim Trimailo of the Space Systems Command acknowledged that the U.S. military needs to capture that innovation sooner rather than later but doing so would require a change in approach. Trimailo, a past […]
The Department of Homeland Security has established a bug bounty program to encourage ethical hackers to probe its systems for vulnerabilities. DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas told attendees at the Bloomberg Technology Summit that the Hack DHS initiative would offer $500 to $5,000 in rewards for hackers depending on the severity of flaws that they spot […]
The Department of Justice is adopting the NetDocuments cloud platform to aid document management efforts at the United States Attorney’s Office, which comprises 94 federal districts encompassing 50 U.S. states and four territories. The initial rollout of document and email management solutions offered by NetDocuments is expected to support 5,000 agency users. A total of […]
Angela Bailey, the chief human capital officer of the Department of Homeland Security, said the agency has received nearly 2,000 job applications for its new cybersecurity service. Speaking at a meeting of the CHCO Council, Bailey noted that more than 10,000 people visited the DHS Cybersecurity Service website and that 30 applicants are expected to […]
NASA is partnering with Axiom Space for its second private astronaut mission to the International Space Station. The Axiom Mission 2 is scheduled for launch between fall 2022 and late spring 2023 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will go on for no more than 14 days. The in-orbit activities are yet to […]
Leidos has secured a potential $82 million single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center’s efforts to detect, identify, track and defeat small unmanned aircraft systems. The company will perform system and software maintenance, development and deployment tasks to enhance the AFLCMC base’s security against sUAS. Work will be carried out […]
Thomas Gann is the chief public policy officer and head of government relations at computer security company McAfee. Gann was named as one of the leaders of McAfee after it was spun out of Intel Security in 2017. He led the establishment of the company’s new public policy department and provides key advice to the […]
