Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a 2021 Wash100 winner, has announced that recipients of grant awards from the Federal Emergency Management Agency will now be required to increase their minimum spend on cybersecurity. Speaking at the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition, Mayorkas said 7.5 percent of FEMA grants must now be allocated for cybersecurity, up from […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has ordered six more satellites from Blue Canyon Technologies for its Blackjack program. The award, valued at $26.5 million, adds to the four satellites DARPA initially ordered from Blue Canyon Technologies under a $14.1 million contract. According to the company, DARPA will receive the first four satellites by the […]
The Army is looking to use a prototype directed energy weapon called the Tactical High Power Operational Responder to combat enemy drones and other airborne threats. The THOR system was developed at the Air Force Research Laboratory and is designed to disable the electronics in drones and deal with drone swarms. It has just finished […]
Lynn Good is the chair, president and chief executive officer of Duke Energy. As the leader of the North Carolina-based electric power holding company, Good has pushed for new technologies and smarter solutions. In 2017, Duke Energy articulated a new vision it hopes to realize in 10 years. The company’s vision includes building a smarter, […]
Michael Bakas is an executive vice president at Ameresco, a renewable energy and energy efficiency company with offices in North America and the U.K. He has been with the company for more than 20 years and currently leads the distributed energy systems group, which focuses on managing energy generation assets. The group has developed upwards […]
The National Institutes of Health IT Acquisition and Assessment Center’s $40 billion Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 4 contract is expected to be out by mid-to-late March, with contract spots slated to be awarded by early 2022. Speaking with Federal News Network, Brian Goodger, the program manager for CIO-SP4 and acting director of NITAAC, said […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency have announced seven research and development awards estimated at nearly $10 million as part of the Secure and Resilient Mobile Network Infrastructure project. The newly launched SRMNI project supports CISA’s goal of securing the mobile supply chain and critical […]
An official from General Dynamics Information Technology has unveiled upcoming changes to the milCloud 2.0 solution, an on-premise cloud-based infrastructure services offering managed by the Defense Information Systems Agency. Speaking with Nextgov, Jim Matney, GDIT’s vice president and general manager for DISA and enterprise services, confirmed that applications already hosted on milCloud will be converted […]
The Department of Homeland Security will carry out a series of actions throughout the week to support President Joe Biden’s goal of reinforcing government-wide cybersecurity. In a statement, DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, a 2021 Wash100 winner, expressed commitment to build on the department’s previous work and pursue national and international efforts to improve cybersecurity at […]
Cubic Mission and Performance Solutions has received a contract to provide P5 Combat Training System pods and auxiliary training hardware as part of the Combat Air Force Contracted Air Support program, which aims to support the training of U.S. military fighter pilots. P5CTS pods enhance training exercises by providing live-air picture, recording mission data, adjudicating […]
