The Government Accountability Office said there are lapses with the U.S. Air Force‘s process for selecting the headquarters for the U.S. Space Command. The federal oversight body compared the Air Force’s selection methods against 21 best practices for analyzing alternatives. According to a GAO report, the military branch had shortfalls in transparency and credibility. In […]
BAE Systems has deployed its flight planning application to Cloud One, the U.S. Air Force’s offering that provides computing platforms, technologies and solutions. The Mobility Air Forces Automated Flight Planning Service is a solution that generates optimized and fuel-efficient flight plans that adhere to modern aviation regulations. The planning software, which is currently fielded for […]
Virtual reality-enabled workforce training provider VinciVR has secured a $200,000 grant from the Department of Energy to develop VR tools for offshore wind-related mariner familiarization and workforce training. The award was announced by Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm. VinciVR will create a portable, VR-enabled training tool that simulates offshore wind farms in various weather conditions. The […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has transitioned 95 milCloud 2.0 accounts ahead of the scheduled shutdown of the cloud platform. In an interview with Federal News Network, Sharon Woods, the director of the Host and Compute Center at DISA, said 60 of the 95 accounts went to DISA’s Stratus private cloud offering. She added that […]
NASA has selected new instrument suites that will help experts explore the moon under the Artemis program. The Lunar Vulkan Imaging and Spectroscopy Explorer will explore the summit of one of the Gruithuisen Domes, whose formation involved a kind of silica-rich magma, unlike on Earth, where the evolution of similar structures would have involved plate […]
The U.S. Navy has launched Operation Cyber Dragon, an initiative that is designed to protect the service’s networks. The Navy kicked off the repeatable operation in March. Sandy Radesky, the deputy chief information officer of the Navy Fleet Cyber Command, said Operation Cyber Dragon identifies vulnerabilities in commercial cloud-hosted and externally facing assets and seals […]
Melissa McLane Wright is the director of the Department of Homeland Security market at Logistics Management Institute. She has been with the company since February 2020. At LMI, she oversees a portfolio of contracts and projects that support the DHS. She also works with project managers and business development teams to help the Homeland Security […]
The U.S. Army plans to proceed with the next phase of the High-Accuracy Detection and Exploitation System in the coming months. The HADES program is part of the Army’s Multi-Domain Sensing System, an effort that aims to modernize the service’s aerial artificial intelligence systems, platforms and sensors. The anticipated HADES platform is expected to track […]
Kevin Heald is a managing director with the National Security Portfolio at Accenture Federal Services. He joined in August 2021 following Accenture Federal Services’ acquisition of Novetta. Heald leads the Emerging Technologies and Cyber Sector within National Security, focusing on bringing advanced technology solutions for defense, intelligence and law enforcement customers. This organization executes projects such as cloud […]
The Department of the Interior is preparing a contract that would give a single cloud service provider up to $1 billion to move the department’s components to a streamlined hybrid cloud environment. According to a draft solicitation issued by the U.S. Geological Survey, the Cloud Hosting Services III indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract will allow the Interior Department […]
