T-Mobile has received a 10-year agreement from the Veterans Affairs Caribbean Healthcare System to provide wireless connectivity to health care professionals in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. T-Mobile will provide wireless lines and mobile internet hotspots in 15 locations across the two U.S. territories, ensuring that health care professionals can serve veterans seamlessly […]
CGI Federal said the data breach that affected the Government Accountability Office was caused by a vulnerability in the Atlassian Confluence suite. According to Mercedes Marx, a spokesperson for CGI, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency singled out the Atlassian Confluence vulnerability in October. The company said it took immediate remediation upon receiving CISA’s warning […]
Ascentium announced that the U.S. Navy has awarded the service-disabled, veteran-owned small business a multimillion-dollar contract to support the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services system. Ascentium will provide its Automated Information Datacenter Analytics platform, an automation and analytics solution that reduces the administrative work required to maintain CANES operations. The company will also develop, […]
NASA has scheduled its next Astrophysics Medium-Class Explorer mission, focusing on an all-sky survey, for 2030. The UltraViolet EXplorer space telescope will study sources of ultraviolet light in the universe and identify explosions that follow bursts of gravitational waves caused by merging neutron stars. UVEX will also carry an ultraviolet spectrograph to study stellar explosions […]
The Defense Innovation Unit’s space portfolio director said the U.S. Space Force is capable of adopting commercial products and services despite its relatively nascent nature. Speaking at the SmallSat Symposium on Feb. 7, Steven Butow, a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, shared that the Space Force is embracing commercial technologies, giving companies a chance to […]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a guidance proposal on Monday highlighting the importance of humans in technology innovation and invention. According to the USPTO’s guidance, inventorship analysis should focus on human contributions as generative AI and other AI tools play a greater role in technology innovation. Focusing on human contributions would ensure that […]
Flight safety and efficiency solutions provider Beacon AI announced that it has secured a $1.25 million Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract from AFWERX to help the U.S. Air Force automate flight decks. Beacon AI will develop and improve its artificial intelligence-enabled copilot assistant system, which integrates autonomous solutions to flight decks. Specifically, Beacon […]
The U.S. Army Contracting Command has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology a $160 million task order for soldier training support services. GDIT will provide individual and collective training for over 200,000 soldiers at the Army III Armored Corps. The contractor will integrate live, virtual and constructive training, ensuring that warfighters are exposed to immersive environments […]
Government officials said the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency could enhance its network security support for other agencies. Speaking at a Center for Strategic and International Studies-hosted event, Jeff Spaeth, deputy chief information officer at the Department of Veterans Affairs, said CISA could improve the speed at which it notifies agencies about new vulnerabilities in a vendor’s […]
The Technology Modernization Fund is seeking projects advancing the Biden administration’s “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” executive order. According to the TMF’s call for project proposals, it will offer different funding paths to help agencies adopt AI for various purposes, including operations enhancement, program coordination, mission support and systems modernization. […]
