Elliott Davis, an accounting firm based in South Carolina, has been selected as a candidate certified third-party assessor organization under the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. CMMC is the Department of Defense’s new unified standard for implementing cybersecurity across the defense industrial base. Once the program has been fully implemented, defense contractors will be required […]
The Space Force has released three requests for prototype proposals for technologies that can help the military reach space and operate orbital spacecraft. The Space and Missile Systems Center’s Launch Enterprise and the Space Development Corps’ Space Enterprise Consortium, or SpEC, plan to invest in next-generation rocket engine testing, upper stage resiliency enhancements and orbital […]
The Department of Energy recently announced $12 million in funding for geothermal technologies that can exploit resources out of the reach of most conventional techniques. Such efforts require a type of research that can produce a practical solution rather than just contribute to the body of knowledge on a specific topic. While basic research has its place, the government […]
Raytheon’s intelligence and space division has partnered with electronics maker CAES to provide radiofrequency signal conversion technology for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s “Global Lightning” program. Global Lightning, or the Defense Experimentation Using Commercial Space Internet, is the military’s effort to connect aircraft to commercial satellite internet constellations in low Earth orbit, CAES said Monday. […]
Sethuraman Panchanathan is the 15th director of the National Science Foundation, an independent government agency that supports non-government science and engineering. NSF is tasked with advancing all fields of scientific discovery, technological innovation and science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. Panchanathan was nominated by former President Donald Trump for the role and unanimously confirmed by […]
Elizabeth Martinez Mahan, a health care sector veteran of more than 25 years, serves as executive vice president at Atlas Research, a management consulting company based in Washington, D.C. As EVP, Martinez Mahan works across the Department of Veterans enterprise to improve the government’s health and benefits services, better manage resources and incorporate best practices, […]
The Air Force said a B-52 Stratofortress has conducted a simulated long-range hypersonic missile strike during Northern Edge 21, a military exercise focused on improving joint interoperability and combat readiness. During a sortie from Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, the B-52 received targeting data from more than 1,000 nautical miles away at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking sources for a cybersecurity tool that can help the agency safely collaborate with commercial vendors. On behalf of DIU, the Washington Headquarters Service is looking for a multifactor authentication tool that can verify user identities without the use of the Department of Defense’s standard ID, C4ISRNET reported. DIU said […]
Aaron Weis, chief information officer of the Navy and a 2021 Wash100 winner, stressed the importance of a robust global information technology infrastructure in achieving information superiority. Modern technologies will play a key role in allowing the Navy to provide accurate and timely data and services to naval warfighters and the civilian teams that support […]
Amyx, a management and technical solutions company, has been awarded two new task orders under the Defense Logistics Agency’s J6 Enterprise Technology Services contract. JETS is an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle that covers a range of information technology services that support applications, software, hardware, infrastructure and systems across the agency. One of the new task orders […]
