The U.S. Army has awarded DCS Corp. a five-year, $2.09 billion contract to continue providing technical and engineering support to the Combat Capabilities Development Command Ground Vehicles Systems Center. Under the CCDC GVSC Technical and Engineering Services contract, DCS will continue providing technical and engineering services to program and project managers within Program Executive Office […]
Excella has secured several 12-month agreements worth over $13 million to continue supporting the Office of Personnel Management. Excella, in partnership with the National Technical Information Service, will help the agency mature its data visualization, infrastructure, skills, standards and stewardship programs by working with the Data Governance Board and the Human Capital Data Management and […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added extended internet-of-things solutions provider NetRise to the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program‘s Approved Product List. NetRise’s automated platform provides XIoT users enhanced visibility and protects organizations from firmware-based attacks and threats through continuous risk monitoring and identification. The platform also generates a software bill of materials, performs […]
Ball Aerospace has tested the Weather System Follow-on – Microwave satellite, designed to enhance the Department of Defense’s space-based environmental monitoring capabilities. As prime contractor for the WSF-M project, Ball designed, built and integrated the spacecraft bus, ground data processing software and the Microwave Imager instrument that will collect environmental data at multiple frequencies. The […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is working with the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity on a competition to help authorities identify and defend against threats facing artificial intelligence data and models. In the TrojAI Leaderboard competition, participants will have multiple rounds to detect Trojan attacks against AI language models and other AI systems. […]
The CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ government group said criminals use artificial intelligence and generative AI to defraud the U.S. government. Speaking with Fox News Digital, 4×24 member and 2022 Wash100 awardee Haywood Talcove said criminal groups use AI to steal COVID-19 relief benefits through fraudulent applications and expand their reach with the help of […]
The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, an oversight body created by the Coronavirus Air, Relief and Economic Security Act, said artificial intelligence can track down individuals taking advantage of pandemic relief funds. PRAC Chief Data Officer Brien Lorenze said during the ATARC AI conference on Aug. 2 that AI can notify officials when fraudsters are using […]
The National Archives and Records Administration said it will address issues in its new electronic records management system and will make it available to more users by mid-September. U.S. Chief Records Officer Laurence Brewer said in a memorandum to federal records management offices that agencies have been using the Electronic Record Archive 2.0 system since […]
The U.S. Air Force said the Battlefield Assisted Trauma Distributed Observation Kit joint integrated electronic health record has seen a rise in demands for demonstrations after it was chosen as the software for point-of-injury and en-route care in July 2022. According to Gregory Burnett, lead engineer for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded SES Space & Defense a multi-year contract to support the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet program. The DEUCSI program establishes communications with military platforms through commercial internet constellations in different orbits. SES Space & Defense will demonstrate multi-orbit, multi-band solutions that can switch among commercial space […]
