The U.S. Army Futures Command has awarded Sarcos Defense a $1 million contract for robotic solutions testing. Sarcos will test its ammunition handling and maneuvering solution, which uses a robotic arm that works with the Army’s fleet of self-propelled howitzer systems. The solution is designed to support the Extended Range Cannon Artillery system. Under the […]
A report from a cybersecurity firm found that a majority of defense contractors are failing to meet the cybersecurity requirements set in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement. According to CyberSheath’s report, most of the defense contractors surveyed lack critical components to their cybersecurity infrastructures. Around 73 percent failed to implement an endpoint detection system […]
Red Hat Holdings subsidiary Skypersonic has delivered to NASA a platform that will be used to control a rover and drone system for the agency’s Simulated Mars Missions. The hardware and software were proven in August when NASA personnel at the Johnson Space Center controlled Skypersonic drones and a rover at Mt. Etna, a stratovolcano […]
Christopher Demi, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the vice president of maritime services and national systems at Airbus U.S. Space & Defense. Demi has over two decades of experience in maritime and national security, including strategic advice provision and program implementation. He has also directed teams that support large-scale government engagements. Demi oversees the […]
The Department of the Air Force‘s chief information officer said adopting artificial intelligence is essential to staying on top of advances in military technology and adversarial threats. Speaking at an event hosted by Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies, 2022 Wash100 winner Lauren Knausenberger said current manual processes will put the U.S. military’s kill chain at […]
The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division has awarded ManTech International a five-year, $100 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for aircraft systems support. Under the recompeted contract, ManTech will provide aircraft combat systems in support of the Naval Air Systems Command Weaponeereing Integration, Naval Air Training and Operating Procedures Standardization and the Naval Aviation Technical Information Product […]
The leaders of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee have written letters to the Federal Communications Commission urging it not to share spectrum band allocations used for weather forecasting services. The warning follows the release of the Spectrum Pipeline Reallocation Engineering Study, which revealed that spectrum sharing between the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration […]
The Department of Health and Human Services plans to replace its legacy system that controls Office of Civil Rights activities for complaints, reviews and correspondences. According to a request for information posted on SAM .gov, the 20-year-old Program Information Management Systems uses outdated technologies which are expensive to maintain and difficult to use. The OCR […]
The U.S. Space Force has delivered the last of two military communications payloads that will launch on Space Norway’s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission. The Enhanced Polar System Recapitalization payload is an extremely high-frequency extended data payload built by Northrop Grumman designed to provide secure communications services to warfighters in the Arctic region. The first EPS-R […]
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has awarded Oasis Technology & Engineering a potential five-year, $91.5 million contract for cybersecurity support services. Under the Cybersecurity Program Support Services blanket purchase agreement, Oasis will provide program management, cybersecurity special projects, Federal Information Security Management Act compliance, cybersecurity situational awareness and role-based training and training awareness support. Work will […]
