Audra Upchurch is the director of Logistics Management Institute‘s homeland security market and is a Potomac Officers Club member. She has been holding her current leadership role since August 2021. Upchurch ensures that LMI delivers goods and services that support agencies within the national security sector. The agencies that she works with include Customs and […]
L3Harris Technologies has secured a potential $700 million contract to work on the Space Development Agency’s Tranche 1 Tracking Layer satellite program. T1TL is designed to detect, identify and track advanced missile threats. Under the contract, L3Harris will build a 14-vehicle satellite constellation that will include technologies that are designed to track fast-moving threats. These […]
The General Services Administration expects cloud services spending to continue growing moving forward. Allen Hill, the deputy assistant commissioner for category management in the GSA Federal Acquisition Service, said there are various reasons for the uptake of cloud services. In an interview with Federal News Network, Hill said that agencies switched to remote work for […]
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking information that will support its network infrastructure refresh efforts. In a request for information posted in early July, the FBI said it wants to introduce new technologies through its Network Enterprise Redesign Initiative. The primary goals of NERI are to introduce software-defined wide area networks, SD-local area networks, […]
The U.S. Air Force 746th Test Squadron has developed a high-power jammer tracking system that makes it possible to subject to sustained GPS disruption a piece of equipment undergoing testing. Paul Benshoof, chief of the capability development flight at 746 TS, explained that the HPJ-T can place a system under test in a constant high-power […]
The House of Representatives has approved the $839 billion Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, which has provisions for a new program focused on enhanced cybersecurity reporting for critical infrastructure. The cybersecurity provision will require critical infrastructure operators to implement strong security standards and share threat intelligence with the government. In doing so, the operators […]
The U.S. Air Force wants to ensure that the U.S. Space Force will have the essential infrastructure to track ground targets from space. Andrew Hunter, an acquisition executive at the Air Force, said during a press meeting that the service needs to guarantee that it has the capability to develop the space-based ground moving target […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has awarded Atlas Space Operations an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for space communication services. Under the contract, Atlas will provide its Freedom Software global ground network management system and its Global Antenna Network to deliver ground station-as-a-service capabilities to support NOAA. The solutions will be used to provide space communications services […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has performed the first flight test of its Operational Fires program. The activity was performed at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. During the test, DARPA was able to use a U.S. Marine Corps logistics truck as a medium-range missile launcher. The agency was also able to perform […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has showcased the first iteration of Dioptra, a testbed that addresses cybersecurity matters aimed at machine learning algorithms. Dioptra allows researchers to find the best solution to defend against various cyber threats. According to Harold Booth, the project leader of the National Vulnerability Database at NIST, the testbed […]
