NASA officials have defended a decision to proceed with a modified version of a countdown rehearsal for the Space Launch System. The new wet dress rehearsal, which is slated for Thursday, involves not fully loading the rocket with propellant. In an April 9 announcement, the space agency said the modifications had to be done due […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs is asking for a $107 million boost for its fiscal year 2023 cybersecurity budget to support all areas of its information security program. VA wants to focus on implementing zero trust security and other security measures to protect its IT systems from ransomware attacks and other security breaches. The agency’s […]
The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded CACI International a three-year, $258 million task order to expand its enterprise technology support and continue modernization efforts at the Defense Agencies Initiative program office. Under the contract, CACI will support cost accounting, user management, budget-to-report, budget formulation and other DAI process areas. The company will also improve the […]
The U.S. Senate has confirmed Krista Boyd as the permanent inspector general of the Office of Personnel Management. She is the first permanent IG at the OPM since 2016. During her nomination hearing on March 10, Boyd said she would make open recommendations for OPM a priority. She shared that the IG office should stay […]
The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to modernize its Where’s My Refund online tool following a Government Accountability Office report. The IRS said in response to GAO’s findings that while it will revamp the application, it will only be able to do so after its annual appropriations are enacted. The agency added that budget resolutions, […]
Pete Pflugrath is the senior vice president of markets and growth at the nonprofit consulting firm Logistics Management Institute. He has over three decades of experience in leading teams that support the defense, national security and health care markets. Pflugrath oversees the organization’s revenue growth and profit and loss portfolios at LMI. He is also […]
The U.S. Air Forces Cyber Cryptologic Office has established an information management framework that will support the service’s information dominance mission. The first Converged Air Force Enterprise Mission framework will move the military branch to a sensor-agnostic and problem-centric architecture. CAFEM is focused on modernizing the current and outdated intelligence production framework and is designed […]
Sen. Angus King and Rep. Mike Gallagher, the co-chairs of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, have asked President Joe Biden to retain the Department of Defense’s authority to approve cyber operations that were enforced in 2018. The two lawmakers wrote a letter to the president stating that the Pentagon’s ability to decide on cyber operations helped […]
The U.S. Space Command is requesting an additional $74 million from Congress to fund projects that would improve the organization’s ability to monitor and defend the space domain. USSPACECOM sent an unfunded requirements list that highlights what it needs for the fiscal year 2023. Gen. James Dickinson, commander of USSPACECOM, told lawmakers that adversaries are […]
The U.S. Air Force has successfully tested the ability of the E-3G Sentry aircraft to receive and process electronic warfare information while in the air. The test marks the first for an E-3G Airborne Warning and Control System to perform airborne EW data management. During the test, the E-3G Sentry AWACS used an updated electronic […]
