Octo Metric JV, a joint venture between Octo and Metric5, has won a five-year, $29 million contract to provide IT transformation services to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Office of IT. Octo will deliver continuous learning and transformation support, training and hands-on coaching to CMS personnel. Deliverables will focus on transparency, business agility, […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Voyager Space an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Architecture and Integration Directorate. Under the contract, Voyager Space’s defense business, Valley Tech Systems, will provide products and services that will contribute to AFLCMC/XA’s mission areas, including modeling, simulation and analysis, capability development and development […]
NASA will send its Integrated LCRD Low Earth Orbit User Modem and Amplifier Terminal to the International Space Station within the year to demonstrate how laser communications systems can be used aboard the space station. ILLUMA-T will work with the Laser Communications Relay Demonstration to complete NASA’s two-way, end-to-end laser relay system. Matt Magsamen, deputy […]
Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks has unveiled a new initiative to ensure that the Department of Defense stays ahead of China’s military buildup. Hicks, a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said during the National Defense Industrial Association’s Emerging Technologies for Defense conference that the “replicator initiative” will see the DOD field thousands of autonomous systems within […]
The General Service Administration is soliciting cybersecurity support services that would help the agency complete its security modernization efforts. David Shive, chief information officer of the GSA and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said during a Daily Scoop Podcast interview that the agency has made headway in developing its internal cyber services and […]
The National Archives and Records Administration said it wants to use an artificial intelligence-based system to support records management. NARA revealed in its 2023 AI use case inventory that it wants to use AI to automatically fill metadata for its archival documents. NARA will also use AI to help respond to Freedom of Information Act […]
The Department of Defense has awarded RTX a potential two-year, $6.6 million contract to develop multi-hop mobile ad-hoc networks that would provide 5G connectivity to forward-deployed warfighters. RTX’s Opportunistic eXtemporarY 5G Encrypted Network capability is designed to connect at least 20 pieces of equipment using 5G sidelink technology. OXYGEN will include additional security layers and […]
The Virginia National Guard hosted the Cyber Fortress 2.0 exercise, which tested how the state’s cyber response plan would work in the real world. During the event, state and federal organizations and representatives from the Finnish Defence Forces participated in a tabletop exercise to test how the cyber response plan would work in defending an […]
The U.S. Space Force has awarded digital engineering software startup Sedaro a $1.5 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase 2 contract to design spacecraft using digital twin technology. Sedaro will partner with Space Dynamics Laboratory and Draper Labs to design spacecraft for the Space Force’s in-space servicing, assembly and manufacturing mission. The contract, issued under […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has started standardizing four algorithms designed to withstand quantum-enabled cyberattacks. The NIST released the draft standards for the CRYSTALS-Dilithium, CRYSTALS-Kyber and SPHINCS+ algorithms, which enable quantum-secure general encryption and digital signatures. The draft standard for the FALCON algorithm will be released in around a year. The cryptography community […]
