The Navy needs to find a balance between investing in modernization and force readiness, according to the military branch’s top officer. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday, a two-time Wash100 winner, said that while the Navy needs to invest in remaining relevant today, the service must not neglect its responsibilities for the future, USNI […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs will stick with the Cerner Millennium platform for its $16 billion electronic health record modernization effort, a top official announced. VA Secretary Denis McDonough said it will likely take two more weeks for the department to determine whether additional changes to the program should be made, FedScoop reported Wednesday. Cerner […]
Raytheon Technologies and Boeing are scheduled to deliver digital prototypes of the Space Force’s new missile tracking satellites by November 2022. Col. Brian Denaro, chief of the Strategic Systems Division of the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Development Corps, said the prototypes will undergo a critical design review to demonstrate technological maturity, Breaking Defense […]
Regan Edens, a founding member of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body, has resigned from the organization’s board of directors. Since CMMC-AB’s establishment in January 2020, Edens had led its standards working group and was responsible for creating CMMC programmatic definitions. His group was tasked with defining the controlled unclassified information that the program […]
Charles Hull serves as executive vice president and chief technology officer at 3D Systems, a commercial additive manufacturing company he co-founded in 1986. 3D Systems offers metal, plastic, metal casting, dental and jewelry 3D printers, in addition to software for reverse engineering, design, inspection and various other applications. Hull is the inventor of stereolithography, a […]
The Space Development Agency has launched its first two satellite missions on Transporter 2, a SpaceX all-rideshare Falcon 9 mission. SDA launched two sets of satellites for observing optical communication terminal performance in low-Earth orbit. Another set called the Prototype On-orbit Experimental Testbed was launched to demonstrate on-orbit data fusion, the Department of Defense said […]
The Army has announced a milestone in its development of software capabilities and algorithms for future autonomous vehicles. The Scalable, Adaptive and Resilient Autonomy program launched during the pandemic under the leadership of the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Army Research Laboratory. Within SARA’s first year, DEVCOM ARL researchers achieved “significant improvements” in adaptive […]
Aunalytics, a business analytics service provider, announced that its cloud solution has been granted Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Ready status. FedRAMP was created to standardize the government’s approach to security assessment, authorization and continuous monitoring for cloud products and services. A FedRAMP Ready status entails that the company has shared information on its […]
Catalyst Communications Technologies has received government funding to develop interoperable communication systems for public safety. The National Institute of Standards and Technology awarded the company $2.99 million under a Phase III Small Business Innovation Research award. Catalyst began work on its interoperable communications solution under Phase I and Phase II contracts awarded by the Department […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to develop artificial intelligence agents that share their experiences with each other. DARPA is seeking innovative basic or applied research concepts in “lifelong learning,” an emerging area of machine learning focused on a single, independent agent, according to a solicitation document posted on SAM .gov. Lifelong learning algorithms […]
