Peter Selfridge currently works for software company SAP as a senior vice president and the head of global public policy and government affairs. Selfridge was appointed to the role in January 2017 and has since been in charge of the company’s policy and public affairs organization, according to his LinkedIn profile. His responsibilities include developing […]
The Government Accountability Office said in a new report that the operational expenses of the Technology Modernization Fund outweigh the fee collected from agencies to offset the costs. The TMF, managed by the Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration, drives the modernization of out-of-date federal information technology systems by providing funding […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate wants to obtain information on automatically activated body cameras that respond to environmental triggers. DHS S&T is particularly interested in learning about what external sensors are available in the market and their specifications. Body cameras capable of automatically beginning recordings are necessary since first responders are […]
Top military officials want to build a data fabric to modernize the Army’s enterprise-wide and tactical network. Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall, director for command, control, communication and computers, and chief information officer for the Joint Staff, told attendees at a technical exchange meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, that one of his priorities is to establish a […]
A new Government Accountability Office report noted that the National Institutes of Health had not fully implemented cybersecurity recommendations to resolve system control deficiencies. The report is the public version of a June 2021 limited, official-use-only document detailing the NIH’s struggles on four core security functions: identifying risks, protecting systems from threats and vulnerabilities, detecting […]
The U.S. Space Command is looking to transform its service affiliated component commands into functional components in a bid to unify military space functions. Speaking at a virtual event hosted by the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, USSPACECOM Deputy Commander Lt. Gen. John Shaw highlighted the need for capability integration to leverage what each service […]
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has started using Questionmark’s OnDemand for Government cloud-based platform for measuring the skills, attitudes and learning of agency employees. Questionmark OnDemand for Government was approved for government use under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program in October 2019. It is listed on the FedRAMP marketplace as a software-as-a-service platform […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Science Applications International Corp. a $99 million contract to support the Weapon Engagement Simulation Technology for Advanced Research program. WESTAR is managed by the Air Force Research Laboratory and is aimed at furthering the development of modeling capabilities to assist in the research, development and transition of weapon systems, […]
The Government Accountability Office said in a new report that the Department of Defense failed to develop plans for an effective pilot phase of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program and that it left out industry on key implementation details. According to the report, the DOD’s plans to assess portions of the five-year CMMC implementation […]
NASA launched an X-ray astronomy satellite on Dec. 9 aimed at studying high-energy objects in space. The Ball Aerospace-built Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer spacecraft took off via a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A joint effort with the Italian space agency ASI, the IXPE mission is aimed at measuring […]
