Maxar Technologies has embarked on a new project that could enable solar-powered equipment on the lunar surface as part of NASA’s Artemis program. Under the Light Bender program, Maxar will use mirrors to autonomously track sunlight and reflect it to equipment operating on the moon’s permanently dark regions. Specifically, two 33-foot reflectors and a 65-foot […]
The U.S. Central Command conducted an exercise where it was tasked to find, prioritize, approve and neutralize over 1,000 threats in a day and adapt to situations as they unfold. Schuyler Moore, chief technology officer of CENTCOM, wrote in a Breaking Defense article that under the Digital Falcon Oasis exercise, participants integrated software capabilities into […]
The U.S. Cyber Command said its Under Advisement program improves cybersecurity capabilities by sharing information with the private industry and other partners. Maj. Gen. William Hartman, commander of CYBERCOM’s Cyber National Mission Force, said UNAD, an unclassified program, supports the private sector’s ability to obtain cybersecurity daya by delivering expertise and insights, which companies can […]
A Department of Veterans Affairs official said its third financial management IT systems modernization effort is starting off well after it went live. According to Terry Riffel, the VA’s deputy assistant secretary for financial management business transformation, the Integrated Financial and Acquisition Management System project’s finance and acquisition components went live simultaneously for the first […]
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate and AFWERX, the Air Force’s technology directorate, have installed an uncrewed aircraft system traffic management at Eglin Air Force Base to ensure that drones can take off and land safely. The Collaborative Low-Altitide UAS Integration Effort is designed to monitor the airspace as electric vertical takeoff and […]
The Space Development Agency has issued an other transaction authority solicitation for the Tranche 2 Transport Layer, part of the agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture initiative. For T2TL, SDA wants to procure 100 Alpha satellites equipped with either three or four optical communications terminals, a Ka-band, a Link 16 payload, command and control data processors […]
Science Applications International Corp.’s chief technology officer said organizations need to pair multi-cloud services with DevSecOps to improve mission delivery. Bob Ritchie, who will speak at the Potomac Officers Club’s Integrating for Mission Success Forum on Aug. 10, said agencies’ vision of using the cloud as a data center will not get them far enough […]
U.S. Air Force technicians at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, are working with Boeing and drone operating systems provider Near Earth Autonomy to test the effectiveness of unmanned aerial systems in aircraft inspection. During trials, operators used drones mounted with cameras to inspect Boeing C-17 cargo planes to reduce check-up times and improve accuracy and […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate partnered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency Integrated Public Alert Warning System to demonstrate the IPAWS Open Platform for Emergency Networks, a solution designed to deliver emergency warnings to people’s mobile devices and automobile infotainment systems. During the demo, the agencies found that unattended field sensors […]
The Internal Revenue Service has awarded Booz Allen Hamilton a spot on the seven-year, $2.6 billion Enterprise Development, Operations Services blanket purchase agreement. The EDOS contract allows Booz Allen to compete for task orders supporting the agency’s application development and modernization efforts. The BPA is designed to enhance development, modernization and enhancement services while reducing […]
