The U.S. Space Force will host a business event on Oct. 27 to allow members of the private industry to comment on new digital twin models that the service will use for future threat detection capabilities development. Andrew Cox, director of the Space Warfighting Analysis Center, said during the 2021 Air, Space and Cyber Conference […]
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded $73 million to support public health information technology workforce development programs. The funding will be used to boost health IT, improve COVID-19 data collection and broaden the representation of underrepresented communities within the public health IT workforce. The funding is part of the Office of the […]
Fort Worth, Texas-based Elbit Systems of America has secured a $54 million U.S. Army order for Enhanced Night Vission Goggle-Binocular systems. Elbit will provide the hardware, spare parts, logistics support and test equipment to the military branch. The order is part of an other transaction authority contract that has a maximum value of around $442 […]
Bjorn Lidefelt is the executive vice president and head of the Global Technologies business unit at HID Global, an Austin, Texas-based manufacturer of secure identity products. He has been holding the EVP position since January 2020 and has handled various leadership positions across Assa Abloy, HID’s parent company based in Stockholm, Sweden. Lidefelt spent 16 […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded extended reality platforms provider GridRaster a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to support the service’s CV-22 Osprey fleet. GridRaster will provide a high-precision augmented reality toolkit to help personnel handle the aircraft’s nacelle wiring. The toolkit will be developed using an open system scalable XR infrastructure. The […]
Maryland-based government contractor Amentum has secured an other transaction authority agreement to develop a prototype for the U.S. Army’s Synthetic Training Environment Live Training System Force-on-Force solution. Under the contract, Amentum will use the Training and Readiness Accelerator consortium developed by the Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation. The system must feature […]
President Joe Biden is set to nominate Douglas Bush as the permanent assistant secretary of the U.S. Army for acquisition, logistics and technology, the White House announced Tuesday. Bush has been holding the role on an acting basis. If confirmed, he will continue handling acquisition activities related to the service’s modernization strategy. Bush served on […]
The Bureau of the Fiscal Service plans to transition to electronic payments by 2030. The bureau’s commissioner, Tim Gribben, said in an interview that the agency made significant progress in making digital payments in the last decade, but that effort has to continue. His comments come as the organization continues to distribute COVID-19 stimulus payments […]
NASA will establish two new directorates to put the agency in the best possible position in the next two decades. According to an announcement by NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, the move would create the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate and the Space Operations Mission Directorate. Both units will focus on lunar and Mars explorations. According […]
Dr. Peter Schultz currently serves as the vice president of climate adaptation and resilience at ICF International. He has held the position since March 2016 and was a principal for the company from November 2009. He is also a senior fellow at the ICF Climate Center. According to ICF, Schultz has over 25 years of […]
