The U.S. Transportation Command will deploy a zero trust security model on its classified networks no later than this summer. Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, commander of USTRANSCOM, said in a written testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee that the combatant command will work with the U.S. Cyber Command to implement the cybersecurity architecture. She […]
NASA has tasked Raytheon Technologies subsidiary Blue Canyon Technologies to build eight X-SAT Venus microsatellites for the space agency’s HelioSwarm science mission. X-SAT Venus is an Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle Secondary Payload Adapter-class satellite that will help study solar winds and space plasma turbulence. The eight microsatellites will move as a swarm and will use […]
Digital workflow company ServiceNow said its National Security Cloud offering has obtained a Department of Defense Impact Level 5 provisional authorization. This means that ServiceNow NSC is one of only a few software-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service offerings that meet the Pentagon’s Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide at IL5. The provisional authorization allows ServiceNow to support the […]
The U.S. Secret Service has appointed Ron Green as chairman of the agency’s Cyber Investigation Advisory Board. Green will lead the CIAB’s efforts to provide outside strategic direction to the Secret Service’s investigative mission. Support services that the board provides include cybercrime identification, technology and policy trend research and guidance provision for training, partnerships and […]
Raytheon Missiles & Defense has secured a potential five-year, $3.15 billion contract for full-rate production of the AN/SPY-6(V) family of radars. The base award is a one-year contract worth $651 million, while the four one-year options are worth $2.5 billion in total. Raytheon will produce solid-state, fixed-face and rotating SPY-6 variants that will provide integrated […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded Charles River Analytics a $600,000 contract to continue developing an onboard artificial intelligence-based threat avoidance system for uncrewed surface vehicles. The award was issued after CRA demonstrated a prototype system. The company’s Management of Intelligent Navigation for Condition-based Ocean Safe Transit is an AI system for USVs that can automatically […]
Joe Niehaus is the director of supply chain management at Logistics Management Institute. He has been with the nonprofit consultancy firm since February 2021. Niehaus oversees the development and delivery of end-to-end solutions that improve supply chain resiliency and risk mitigation for LMI’s clients. He also leads a team of logistics and supply chain experts […]
Penny White is the vice president of supply chain at Boeing Defense, Space and Security. She has been holding this leadership position since November 2020. White handles procurement, policymaking, subcontract oversight, process improvement and material management across BDS. The supply chain organization procures $11 billion in products and services and improves supplier performance and relationships […]
The U.S. Army has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology its five-year, $171 million Biomedical Research Application Evaluation and Support contract to support the Army Medical Research and Development Command and the Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs. Under the contract, GDIT will provide scientific, software development and program management services that will support biomedical research grant […]
The Department of Defense is expected to decide on whether to develop and field new low-Earth orbit, space-based sensors that can track hypersonic systems. Vice Adm. Jon Hill, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, told reporters that the decision to proceed with the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor project will be made with […]
