The Navy and Marine Corps should be prepared to defend against cybersecurity threats on the same scale as the SolarWinds attack, according to a top cybersecurity official in the military. Army Gen. Paul Nakasone, head of U.S. Cyber Command and a five-time Wash100 winner, said the growing sophistication of enemy hackers has increased the number […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has logged the first entries in its list of “bad” cybersecurity practices for critical infrastructure operators. CISA warned organizations against using unsupported or end-of-life software for critical infrastructure and national critical functions. Operators should also avoid using known passwords and credentials, especially in internet-accessible technologies, CISA said. The Department […]
Northrop Grumman has delivered the bus that will carry the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3 spacecraft in 2023. As one of the high-priority Vanguard programs, the NTS-3 mission is aimed at establishing technologies that can reliably mitigate threats to positioning, navigation and timing capabilities, the Air Force said. NTS-3 is also expected to […]
John Tenaglia serves as the principal director of the Defense Pricing and Contracting organization within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Tenaglia is responsible for leading and developing the careers of more than 30,000 contracting and purchasing professionals in the Department of Defense. He also serves as the principal adviser to the undersecretary of […]
Astrid Pages serves as the vice president of contracts and pricing at CyberCore Technologies, an Elkridge, Maryland-based technology integrator that supports the federal national security community. CyberCore has a history of engagements with the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community, the Department of Homeland Security and commercial organizations. The company’s specialty areas include cybersecurity, information […]
Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a potential $950 million contract to provide engineering assessment, procurement, integration and contractor logistics support to the Air Force. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity deal covers the procurement of hardware and spares and the integration of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance sensors, Alion said Monday. Alan Dietrich, senior vice president and general […]
Organizations might better address ransomware using a combination of basic cyber hygiene and zero trust security, health care executives said. Rob Wood, chief information security officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said that limiting resource access can slow the spread of malware in a compromised network, GovernmentCIO Media & Research reported. He […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate has awarded $2 million for the development of non-contact, inexpensive machine learning and classification technologies. Physical Sciences Inc. and Alakai Defense Systems each received about $1 million in Small Business Innovation Research Phase II funding, DHS said. Following a successful Phase I technology demonstration, the two […]
Hanscom Air Force Base and the Air Combat Command are jointly developing a software-based perimeter that can enable zero trust security. Zero trust is a modern architecture that automatically denies resource requests until confidence can be established through identity verification and other measures, the Air Force said. Raju Ranjan, an engineer at Hanscom AFB’s AFNet […]
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine have published a consensus study report backing NASA’s proposed updates to its space radiation health standard. NASA currently sets different radiation exposure limits for astronauts based on age and gender. NASEM advised that the space agency set a single lifetime limit throughout an astronaut’s career. Astronauts in […]
