NASA has awarded Spire Global a 12-month, $6 million contract extension for the Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition program. With the award, Spire Global will continue to deliver various Earth observation data, metadata and other necessary information. Spire will provide surface data, atmospheric data, space weather-related information and domain awareness. Information will be gathered through a […]
Michael Bloomberg has been sworn in as the chairman of the Defense Innovation Board. He is the first chairman since the completion of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin‘s zero-based review of all Department of Defense advisory boards and committees. Bloomberg will lead a group of experts who will provide insights and recommendations that will address the […]
Barbara Wade is the vice president of procurement and supply chain management at engineering company KBR and is a Potomac Officers Club member. Wade is experienced in identifying opportunities and initiatives that spur organizational growth and drive shareholder value. She also works with leaders across the company and other stakeholders to successfully implement initiatives. The […]
Tom Noble is the co-founder and CEO of Noble Supply & Logistics. Noble co-founded the company with his father in 2003 and has since led the organization towards consistent annual growth. Throughout the years, Noble expanded the company’s focus from a purely e-commerce-focused business to one that provides global supply chain, logistics services, government support […]
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, in partnership with the Department of the Interior, has issued a broad agency announcement calling for software systems that can enhance the Intelligence Community’s surveillance imagery capabilities. The BAA is for the Walkthrough Renderings for Imagery of Varying Altitudes project, which aims to make the IC’s imaging more realistic. […]
A draft policy bill issued by the House Armed Services Committee includes a provision that seeks to establish a national initiative that is designed to address the development and testing of the Department of Defense’s hypersonics technology. The bill orders the Pentagon to explore options for what would be known as a National Hypersonic Initiative. […]
The General Services Administration has announced the first 40 members of the U.S. Digital Corps. These individuals will help develop a more effective and more secure digital government. The U.S. Digital Corps is a two-year program that was launched in 2021 to hire technology experts who would work on key projects in five skill tracks. […]
The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has awarded BlackSky Technologies a basic ordering agreement to create and optimize datasets for the Department of Defense’s AI models and applications. According to Patrick O’Neil, chief innovation officer at BlackSky, the company’s expertise in AI can enable a variety of capabilities, including low-latency geospatial imagery and automatic satellite tasking. […]
NASA and aerospace company SpaceX will start testing strategies that would prevent autonomous satellites from colliding with each other as part of the agency’s Starling mission. The Starling mission is a series of experiments that would test autonomous swarm communications, navigation and autonomy. After the tests are completed, NASA’s Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis group, the […]
Laura Galante, a veteran cybersecurity intelligence analyst and the former director of global intelligence at cybersecurity company Mandiant, was appointed as the director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She started working in this position in May. Galante was the CEO of her own cyber […]
