BAE Systems has been awarded a $325.5 million contract to provide M-Code Global Positioning System modules to the Defense Logistics Agency. Modernized GPS User Equipment Increment 1 common GPS modules built for the M-Code protocol will be delivered until 2030, BAE Systems said Tuesday. Greg Wild, director of navigation sensor systems at BAE Systems, said […]
The U.S. Navy has announced the appointment of Rear Adm. Heidi Berg as the U.S. Cyber Command’s new director of plans and policy, J5. Berg currently serves as J2 director of U.S. Africa Command. Berg flew more than 1,000 hours as a communications intercept evaluator on an EP-3E aircraft as part of Operations Provide Promise/Sharp […]
Parsons has been awarded a potential $185 million task order to support the Space Force’s Integrated Solutions for Situational Awareness system. ISSA is a government-owned software package used by the Department of Defense and federal civilian agencies. The tool is used for creating code, applications and modules in support of warfighters and analysts. The cost-plus-fixed-fee […]
Nishita Henry serves as Deloitte Consulting’s chief innovation officer and is a member of the executive committee in charge of the company’s new business innovation efforts. Deloitte is a global management consulting company that offers financial advisory, audit services, risk management, tax services and other professional services. As chief innovation officer, Henry works with startups […]
Ben Solomon serves as a managing partner at FedTech, a startup accelerator organization that he founded in 2013. Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, the venture capital company partners with entrepreneurs, research laboratories, government agencies and corporate innovation programs to finance the commercialization of promising technologies. The organization has been funding technology ventures that benefit universities, NASA […]
U.S. Air Force leaders stressed the importance of military-civilian partnerships in ensuring that the service has the tools it needs to keep up with modern warfare. Acting Secretary of the Air Force John Roth said that civic leaders can play a part in national security by immersing themselves in the defense sector. During the Air War […]
NTT Data, a multinational system integration company, has been awarded a call order to modernize the Department of Justice’s systems and capabilities. Tim Conway, executive vice president and public sector group president at NTT Data Services, said the company has expertise in modernization and is well-positioned to prepare the DOJ’s systems for the future. Conway […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $35 million for 15 projects aimed at reducing carbon emissions and increasing the availability of renewable biofuel. The funding will advance technologies that have the potential to decarbonize biorefining processes in the energy, transportation and agriculture sectors, DOE said. DOE said biofuel is currently produced almost exclusively through fermentation, […]
ClearDATA, a cloud security provider, has added an automation capability to its ClearDATA Healthcare Security and Compliance Platform. With the new update, health care organizations and their associates may now use the platform to automatically detect protected health information in multi-cloud storage, ClearDATA said. Suhas Kelkar, chief product officer at ClearDATA, said the health care […]
Carahsoft Technology has announced the availability of Splunk’s cloud-based data analytics platform on Microsoft Azure. Splunk Enterprise Transformation with Azure is a scalable platform that government agencies can use to improve and accelerate their data collection functions, Carahsoft said. Jeremy Rissi, public sector group vice president at Splunk, said the platform offers capabilities in data […]
