The U.S. Marine Corps has issued a draft manual meant to direct the service’s new operations strategy. The Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations manual suggests moving small formations of Marines from sea to strategic pieces of land to perform surveillance missions, launch anti-ship missiles and set up a rugged forward refueling and rearming base, among other […]
NASA has awarded SpaceX a $2.89 billion firm-fixed-price contract to continue building a human landing system that will facilitate American astronauts’ return to the Moon. Contract work will support NASA’s Artemis program, a U.S. government-funded international human spaceflight program aimed at landing the first woman and person of color on the Moon by 2024. The […]
The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on a bipartisan bill that aims to improve the country’s ability to prevent and respond to cyberattacks. Once enacted, the Cyber Diplomacy Act would require the establishment of a new Office of Cyber Issues within the Department of State. The proposed legislation also calls for the appointment […]
Carolyn Clancy, acting deputy secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, has assured lawmakers that the agency will postpone future rollouts of its new electronic health records system until after a scheduled strategic review. Clancy spoke before members of the House VA Technology Modernization Subcommittee, who pressed the VA to ensure success for all impending […]
Boeing is rescheduling the next test flight of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, which will be used for the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test 2 mission, due to conflicts with other launches and International Space Station missions. The test flights of the Starliner were originally scheduled for late March or early April but that date has now […]
The Department of Agriculture has awarded CACI International a seven-year, $376 million task order to support its Web Based Supply Chain Management system. Under the terms of the task, CACI will provide sustainment services and perform business process improvements to the WBSCM system. Services include facilitating cloud migration, modernizing the system’s built-in SAP S/4HANA platform […]
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center wants to connect AI projects across the Department of Defense enterprise with the cloud environment that best suits them. To do so, JAIC plans to establish a joint common fabric of development environments that will provide universal access to the various cloud and software development platforms used by different DOD […]
The Employee Benefits Security Administration within the Department of Labor has released new cybersecurity guidance to protect American workers’ retirement benefits and personal information. The guidance seeks to keep defined benefit plan participants in private pension plans and defined contribution plan participants safe from both internal and external cybersecurity threats, the DOL said. It comes […]
The U.S. Navy seeks to demonstrate a mix of electronic warfare and cyber capabilities through its aerial electronic attack platform dubbed the Next Generation Jammer. The NGJ, which is split into three pods covering the mid, low and high portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, will be mounted on the EA-18G Growler aircraft and serve as […]
The Department of Energy has unveiled two funding opportunities for research projects promoting efficiency and reduced carbon emissions among cars, trucks and off-road vehicles. The first funding opportunity, valued at $100 million, is targeted at projects supporting the next stage of the department’s SuperTruck initiative. Up to $62.8 million will also be allotted for the […]
