The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center‘s Cryptologic and Cyber Systems Division has awarded Sigma Defense company Solute a contract to apply improvements to the military branch’s Platform One. Under the contract, Solute will enhance the supply chain security, application implementation and container configuration for Platform One’s Iron Bank and Big Bang product lines. […]
Elizabeth Smith is the senior vice president of health strategy at government contractor Maximus and is a Potomac Officers Club member. She has over three decades of experience working with government agencies, health care and technology firms and commercial systems integrators. Smith leads the Center for Health Innovation, where she designs the company’s federal health […]
Zachary Parker is the president and CEO of health care support provider DLH Corp. He is experienced in, among other things, defense and government contracting, research and scientific studies, health care and data analytics. Parker leads the whole company, including its Public Health & Life Sciences sector. This organization works on advancing infectious disease research […]
The Department of Defense has awarded North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University a one-year, $500,000 applied research award to advance hypersonics technology. NC A&T will develop a methodology for designing an intake system that should enhance hypersonic flight performance. It will use advanced engineering methods to design inlets and assess the design methodology and […]
NASA has awarded SES Government Solutions nearly $29 million under the agency’s Funded Space Act Agreement to support the development and demonstration of near-Earth communication services that would support the agency’s future mission needs. SES GS will work with satellite data provider Planet Labs to develop a real-time, low-latency connectivity solution enabled by SES’s O3b […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate will work with South Korea’s Ministry of Science and Information Communication Technology to research, develop and exchange cybersecurity and public safety solutions. DHS and MSIT signed a project agreement and a joint statement of intent for the initiative. Under the JSoI, DHS S&T and MSIT will […]
Software delivery platform company CloudBees has integrated its CloudBees CI offering with the U.S. Air Force’s Platform One Big Bang DevSecOps platform. The addition of the new solution will allow users to avoid vendor lock-in as they create safe and secure software factories. CloudBees CI is also expected to reduce the amount of configuration, increase […]
The First Responder Network Authority and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have launched the Public Safety Immersive Test Center in Boulder, Colorado. The facility uses virtual reality technology to kickstart the development and deployment of critical technologies for public safety response. The center will be offered for use by public safety agencies and […]
The U.S. Special Operations Command wants to develop software at a rapid pace to allow it to stay abreast with industry standards, and it wants to do so by finding a way around the Department of Defense’s bureaucratic structure. In an interview with National Defense Magazine, Col. Paul Weizer, the executive program officer of USSOCOM’s […]
Deborah Drake is vice president and chief people officer at nonprofit organization Noblis. She has been with the company since January 2020. Drake oversees Noblis’ human resources and organizational development units, including those that are responsible for talent recruitment, rewards and employee engagement. She has over two decades of experience in handling various aspects of […]
