A joint report from the inspectors general of the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs found that the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization Program Office does not have a plan to ensure that the VA’s EHR system will be interoperable between the two agencies. According to the audit, FEHRM program office officials only facilitate discussions […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Raytheon Intelligence & Space a contract to develop an artificial intelligence tool that will support field personnel in emergency situations. The Medical Assistance, Guidance, Instruction and Correction tool will be able to help field medics with 50 skills applied during common procedures. It is meant to increase […]
Greg Bateman is the regional vice president of defense at software company Salesforce and is a Potomac Officers Club member. He is an expert in technology support services and has supported various defense and federal agencies. Bateman oversees Salesforce’s business for the Department of Defense’s Fourth Estate. The Fourth Estate is the collective term for […]
Thomas Watson is the senior vice president of Serco’s defense services group. He has over three decades of experience in leading teams that support defense and federal civilian agencies. Watson leads a group that supports Serco’s customers from the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. The defense services group’s services include shipboard and base […]
Defense solutions provider QinetiQ US has appointed Stephen Iwicki as executive vice president and general manager of its C5ISR business. Iwicki possesses almost 20 years of industry experience. He also spent two decades as a U.S. Army intelligence officer. Iwicki will support the delivery of advanced robotics and sensor solutions to government and commercial customers […]
The Department of Defense and Lift, the Pentagon’s manufacturing innovation institute, have awarded Raytheon Technologies a contract to lead a project that is included in the institute’s Hypersonics Challenge initiative. The project investigates the use of modeling and simulation to speed up the development of materials needed for hypersonic applications. It will be managed by […]
The U.S. Space Force has awarded telecommunications infrastructure and network mobility solutions provider NIC4 an other transaction agreement contract to create a prototype Service Provider Registry. SPR is a component of the Satellite Communications Enterprise Management and Control that will support the planning and provisioning of Department of Defense terminals for mission operations. It will […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking feedback on its new guidance that highlights 5G technology security. Jeff Cichonski, an IT specialist at NIST and one of the authors of the Draft Special Publication 1800-33B, said the goal of the guidance is to help organizations understand the available cybersecurity capabilities for 5G and […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded Sigma Defense company Solute a task order to continue working on its Surface Search Coordination Planner capability for two Navy program offices. Under the contract, Solute will continue to develop, deliver and demonstrate SSCP’s ability to test software code using a government-provided DevSecOPs pipeline toolset that is available on the […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to continue preparing the AN/ALQ-257 Integrated Viper Electronic Warfare Suite for developmental tests and full hardware qualification. The EW suite features an open-systems, ultra-wideband architecture that provides the necessary bandwidth to combat modern threats. James Conroy, vice president of navigation, training and survivability at Northrop, […]
