The Government Accountability Office said the Environmental Protection Agency needs to modernize two systems used to monitor air pollution across the United States. According to a GAO report released on Sept. 29, EPA’s Air Quality System and AirNow system are outdated and riddled with user experience and upgradeability issues. GAO also found it difficult to […]
The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has announced six contracts worth up to $50 million in total to develop new health data security solutions. The contracts were awarded through APRA-H’s Digital Health Security project and will go to initiatives focused on automated patching, ransomware intervention, cognitive health assistance, cyber reasoning techniques and electronic health […]
Lockheed Martin has secured a four-year, $5.4 million U.S. Space Systems Command contract to build a platform that can relay critical data to warfighters. Under the Overhead Persistent Infrared Data Exploitation Technology Transition I Typing and Characterization Algorithm contract, Lockheed will work with SSC’s Tools Applications Processing Laboratory to improve missile warning data relay capabilities, […]
The U.S. Army has awarded Comtech a $48.6 million contract to provide Enterprise Digital Intermediate Frequency Multi-Carrier modems. Comtech will design, develop, test and deliver the units and provide ancillary hardware, software and sustainment services that support EDIM performance enhancements. The modems are designed to support multiple satellite providers, allow the Department of Defense to […]
Rigetti Computing announced that it has secured a contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to pursue an ongoing quantum algorithm project. as part of the Imagining Practical Applications for a Quantum Tomorrow program. Rigetti is currently developing an encoding solution for optimizing problems onto qubits through its “Scheduling Problems with Efficient Encoding of […]
V2X has named Shawn Mural as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Mural will oversee finance operations, tax functions, investor relations, corporate development and other finance and accounting functions. He succeeds Susan Lynch, who retired after four years of holding the SVP and CFO roles. Mural spent over 24 years at RTX prior to […]
A former White House official said improving artificial intelligence use case inventories could help the Office of Management and Budget create appropriate AI guidance. Lynne Parker, associate vice chancellor and director of the AI Tennessee Initiative at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, said additional use cases could improve transparency, allow government agencies to see what […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added the OASIS Common Security Advisory Framework version 2.0 standard to its advisories for industrial control systems, operational technologies and medical devices. According to the agency, OASIS CSAF “supports the creation, update and interoperable exchange of security advisories as structured information on products, vulnerabilities and the status of […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency plans to use generative artificial intelligence to support cybersecurity-related data management. Speaking at an Intelligence and National Security Alliance event on Sept. 28, NGA Chief Information Officer Gary Buchanan, the large amounts of cyber data the agency receives is overwhelming employees, adding that the NGA’s Cybersecurity Operations Center receives up to […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the UK National Cyber Security Centre recently held a strategic dialogue where participants from eight countries discussed ways to support high-risk community cyber resilience. During the Strategic Dialogue on Cybersecurity of Civil Society Under Threat of Transnational Repression, participants affirmed their commitment to protect communities at risk of […]
