The Missile Defense Agency said its planned mission to launch hypersonic missile tracking satellites will be delayed to the second quarter of the fiscal year 2024 due to technical issues with one of the spacecraft. According to MDA spokesperson Mark Wright, one of the contractors experienced technical issues during the final integration testing. He said […]
The National Institutes of Health will work with the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation in 2024 to advance the NIH’s artificial intelligence efforts. According to Susan Gregurick, associate director for data science at the NIH, the three agencies will launch the National AI Research Resource steering committee, which will provide data sets […]
Sierra7 has secured the Department of Veterans Affairs’ privacy impact assessment tracking contract. The PIA tracking contract, awarded by the VA Office of Information Technology’s Privacy Services, is in its third iteration, with Sierra7 winning the previous two contracts. Under the previous PIA work, Sierra7 was able to establish and use Microsoft SharePoint as a […]
The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command needs to find a way to adopt a zero trust architecture that can work for the U.S. military and its allies and partner nations, a feat the combatant command’s deputy chief information officer said is fraught with challenges. Speaking at the AFCEA TechNet Asia-Pacific conference in Hawaii, Paul Nicholson said INDOPACOM […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is engaging with four defense contractors for an experimental take-off and landing aircraft that could outmatch the V-22 Osprey. Under the Speed and Runway Independent Technologies program, Northrop Grumman, Aurora Flight Sciences, Bell Textron and Piasecki Aircraft are tasked with creating a prototype VTOL aircraft that can reach speeds […]
NASA has introduced a plan to deploy robots that can explore the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn. NASA officials shared insights from a workshop held in February that explored the possibility of using “cryobots” in outer space. The concept uses thermal drilling to bore into the moons’ icy surface and gather cylindrical samples akin […]
The U.S. Navy’s director of surface warfare said the service may need to adjust its modernization plans to include more frigates and smaller, more capable ships. Rear Adm. Fred Pyle, a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, shared that the Constellation-class frigate could help improve the balance of the Navy’s surface warfare capabilities because it offers […]
A Carahsoft executive said cybersecurity must be implemented across the education sector to improve national security and students’ experiences. Tim Boltz, education market program executive at Carahsoft and a 4×24 member, wrote in an article for the company that the education sector is one of the most prone to cyberattacks as schools and universities play […]
Red Cat Holdings has endorsed the passage of the American Security Drone Act, a bill introduced in November preventing the federal government from procuring unmanned aerial systems from adversarial countries. Jeff Thompson, founder and CEO of Red Cat, said ASDA protects the United States and its allies from foreign threats and can serve as a […]
Cybersecurity solutions provider Tenable has announced that the Tenable Cloud Security for U.S. Government-Ermetic was granted a “Ready” designation at the moderate impact level from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Tenable Cloud Security is a cloud-native application protection platform that maps cloud assets and platforms, assesses and identifies potential threats to business operations […]
