The head of the Missile Defense Agency is seeking a partnership with Japan to work on a hypersonic missile interceptor system that will stop such weapons in their glide phase. Speaking at a McAleese & Associates conference, MDA Director Vice Adm. Jon Hill shared that the potential partnership for the Glide Phase Interceptor could look […]
A U.S. Navy task force has launched a new program designed to make sense of ship-gathered data using artificial intelligence and machine learning. According to Capt. Pete Kim, the lead official of Task Force Hopper, Project OpenShip will give sailors AI and ML tools that would manage large volumes of data gathered by ships on […]
The U.S. Space Force is seeking a five-year budget worth more than $1.24 billion for a space-based target tracking project. According to fiscal year 2024 budget documents, the funding will be for a satellite-based tracking project, dubbed “Long Range Kill Chains,” that would identify and monitor moving targets. The envisioned solution would replace the E-8C […]
An IT official at the Defense Information Systems Agency said the organization is engaged in an overseas beta test for the private cloud instantiation solution set to replace milCloud. Speaking at a Defense One webinar on March 14, DISA Hosting and Compute Center Director Sharon Woods shared that the agency is testing the Stratus platform […]
Logistics Management Institute has secured a spot on the five-year, $149 million Business Operations, Optimization and Modernization blanket purchase agreement, allowing it to support the Food and Drug Administration. Under the BOOM BPA, LMI will provide its digital transformation capabilities to support the FDA’s activities. Support services will include strategic planning, business model development, organizational […]
The Department of Defense has launched an organization within its acquisition office that will lead weapon systems development in a bid to address threats before they materialize. Speaking at a McAleese & Associates conference on March 15, Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment Bill LaPlante said the Joint Production Accelerator Cell ensures that the […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a new cyber incident reporting rule that would require financial institutions to inform the agency of compromises within two days and to review their policies and procedures annually. According to the SEC, the new rule would help it learn more about the cyber risks that financial institutions face […]
A National Space Council official said the U.S. government has taken insights about how to distribute on-orbit activity regulation across different agencies. Speaking at the Satellite 2023 panel discussion on March 15, Diane Howard, the head of the council’s commercial operations, shared that, following multiple public consultations, officials received 61 public comments and 43 written […]
The Department of Defense is set to issue the first Joint Warfighting Capability Contract task orders. Sharon Woods, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency Hosting and Compute Center, said in a Defense One-hosed online event that secret-level bidding opportunities will be available in the coming weeks while top-secret contracts will be ready in the […]
The Defense Innovation Unit has awarded Australian aerospace company Hypersonix Launch Systems a contract to showcase a hypersonic platform for the Hypersonic and High-Cadence Airborne Testing Capabilities program. The DIU and its partners at the U.S. Air Force and the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research & Engineering picked Hypersonix’s DART Additive Engineering […]
