The Department of Homeland Security Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office has awarded a K2 Construction Consultants-led team a potential five-year, $253 million contract for anti-WMD detection support. Under the contract, K2, Parsons and Culmen International will deploy radiation portal monitors for the Radiation Portal Monitor Program, which supports first responders’ ability to detect and […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is working with its Israeli counterpart to prevent cyberattacks following the Hamas attack on Oct. 7 and the subsequent counteroffensive by Israeli operatives. Speaking at a Washington Post event on Thursday, CISA Executive Director Brandon Wales said the agency is regularly exchanging information with the Israel National Cyber Directorate […]
The Defense Health Agency is implementing artificial intelligence, machine learning and other emerging technologies to improve patient-centered health care delivery. Lester Martinez-Lopez, assistant secretary of defense for health affairs, had said during the Defense Health Information Technology Symposium in August that the military health care sector needs to catch up with emerging technologies and lead […]
The U.S. Army has ordered over 100 AeroVironment Switchblade 600 loitering munitions that will be part of the service’s Low Altitude Stalking and Strike Ordnance program, increment one. Doug Bush, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said the service signed a deal with AeroVironment after Congress […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded AT&T and Honeywell Aerospace a potential 10-year, $900 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for proliferated low-Earth orbit satellite-based services. AT&T and Honeywell will provide low-latency satellite communications services to the U.S. Space Force, ensuring that operators will have reliable data across all warfighting domains. The contract has a base performance period […]
The Johns Hopkins University-Applied Physics Laboratory will provide lunar science and technology expertise to a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency project designed to identify and propose lunar critical infrastructure standards. JHU-APL will manage and deliver expert insights for the Lunar Operating Guidelines for Infrastructure Consortium, an initiative designed to accelerate the development of interoperability standards […]
The National Security Agency has released a new cyber signature and analytics repository to help cyber officials fend off malicious activities in operational technologies. The ELITEWOLF capability is a set of operational technology intrusion detection signatures and analytics that allows officials to continuously monitor their systems. According to ELITEWOLF’s GitHub page, the signatures and analytics […]
The Food and Drug Administration has announced a new committee mandated to explore issues related to digital health technologies. The Digital Health Advisory Committee will advise the agency on artificial intelligence and machine learning, augmented and virtual reality, remote patient monitoring, wearable technologies and other products used in the health care sector. The committee will […]
The U.S. Space Force is seeking proposals for a Colorado-based Tools Application and Processing laboratory that would host space domain awareness projects. According to the Space Systems Command, Project Apollo proposals should focus on space launch custody, object identification, and decision-making support. Some of the solutions SSC is looking for are space launch detection data, […]
Threat detection solutions provider Liberty Defense has delivered two HEXWAVE walkthrough screening portals to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. HEXWAVE uses millimeter-wave 3D imaging and artificial intelligence to detect metallic and non-metallic items, including weapons, explosives and other dangerous and prohibited items without the need for users to surrender ordinary objects. It also delivers automatic […]
