Jill Bruning, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, serves as the president of the intelligence, system engineering, security, services and solutions strategic business unit at Amentum. Bruning became part of Amentum in February 2020 after working for AECOM, where she was also in charge of the IS4 business, according to her company profile. It […]
Yosry Barsoum is the director of the Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute at MITRE. Barsoum leads a federally funded research and development center that MITRE operates for the Department of Homeland Security. The institute supports the DHS’s acquisition strategy and national security mission by providing systems engineering and technology expertise, according to Barsoum’s […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate is partnering with South Korea’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport on a pilot program aimed at demonstrating a contactless way of screening checked baggage prior to airport arrival. The pilot will feature cloud-based baggage pre-screening software called the Common Viewer Air System. The technology is […]
Tech company Altair is hosting a three-day virtual event called Future .AI to showcase advances in analytics and artificial intelligence that solve challenges faced by government agencies and companies in manufacturing, banking, financial services and health care. Future .AI is scheduled for June 15 to 17 and will feature keynote presentations, fireside chats, industry case […]
Paragon Space Development has been selected to build a critical component of the habitation and logistics outpost module for NASA’s Lunar Gateway. The HALO module, estimated to be the size of a small studio apartment, will accommodate astronauts docking to the gateway. The pressurized living quarters can support a crew of four for up to […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will likely demo only two payloads for its Blackjack program. According to program manager Stephen Forbes, while the payload lineup has not yet been finalized, it has been decided that Blackjack satellites will carry a radio frequency package for communications and geolocation, as well as an overhead persistent infrared […]
Personnel from the Air Force Civil Engineer Center have completed a training course at San Geronimo Air Park, where they learned how to operate portable small unmanned aircraft systems collectively called Group 1 UAS. During the course, the participants focused on three different sUAS systems and were taught how to navigate obstacle courses, support data […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a sources sought notice for cyber vulnerability management services. DISA is conducting market research to support the needs of its cyber services line of business, which handles all information technology assets used for managing Department of Defense data, Intelligence Community News reported. Interested sources are asked to detail […]
Lisa Costa, chief information officer of the U.S. Special Operations Command, asked industry to rethink their business models and focus on providing more flexible tools and platforms that can be tailored to meet various mission needs. Speaking at the NDIA’s Special Operations Forces Industry Conference, Costa requested that industry prioritize as-a-service offerings that can be […]
Booz Allen Hamilton has secured a $1.1 billion task order to help with the Department of Veterans Affairs’ benefits processing and management efforts. The award was made under the Transformation Twenty-one Total Technology contract. Work for the task will further the VA’s benefits integration initiative, which aims to expand and reuse technologies used with the […]
