House defense appropriators have told Space Force leaders that the service is not making enough progress in acquisition programs. Rep. Betty McCollum, chair of the House Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee, said the Space Force’s acquisition direction has not changed much since it inherited its major programs from the Air Force Space Command in December 2019, […]
The Army is working with industry and academia to create a shared toolkit or a “common platform” for artificial intelligence developers. The effort is a collaboration among the Army’s AI Task Force, Carnegie Mellon University and machine learning company Visimo, Breaking Defense reported. Isaac Faber, chief data scientist at AITF, said the toolkit will improve […]
Michigan-based American Axle & Manufacturing Holdings said it has received government funding to accelerate the development of its electric drive technology. Under a cooperative agreement, the Department of Energy Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy awarded $5 million to advance the development of a heavy rare earth-free 3-in-1 electric drive unit, AAM said. David […]
The Department of Energy considers cybersecurity a top research and development priority, Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing. Granholm responded to lawmakers’ concerns that the department did not put enough focus on cybersecurity in its fiscal year 2022 budget, FCW reported. Rep. Mike Simpson, the subcommittee’s ranking member, cited threats […]
Leidos has been awarded a spot on the Defense Intelligence Agency’s potential $12.6 billion Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise III contract vehicle. SITE III is a 10-year multiple-award contract that covers cybersecurity, application development and sustainment, connectivity, network services, enterprise computing, cloud services and other IT services. Under the terms of SITE III, Leidos […]
Nutanix, a cloud computing company, announced that its Clusters cloud platform now extends to Amazon Web Services GovCloud. The Clusters platform covers Nutanix on-premise and hard disk Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances running on the AWS GovCloud region, Nutanix said. Chip George, vice president of U.S. public-sector sales at Nutanix, said previous offerings did not […]
The Air Force has conducted a flight test of a Kratos UTAP-22 Mako “loyal wingman” air vehicle equipped with a custom-built autonomy system. The two-hour safety demonstration was the first Skyborg test conducted on an Air Force test range. The Skyborg program is aimed at building a family of autonomous combat drones for use in […]
The General Services Administrations has awarded REI Systems a Multiple Award Schedule contract for software licenses. GSA’s MAS allows federal agencies to more easily access GovGrants, an enterprise-grade tool designed for managing grants on a single platform, REI said Thursday. REI Vice President Wagish Bhartiya said GovGrants includes integrated post-award reporting and analytics tools absent […]
The Department of Homeland Security has urged small businesses to proactively protect themselves against ransomware. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, a 2021 Wash100 winner, said hackers target small businesses in particular because of their role as the “backbone of the U.S. economy.” During an event hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, about 1,500 […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory has selected OneWeb, a low earth orbit satellite communications company, to demonstrate managed satellite communications services in the Arctic region. Under the terms of the contract, prime contractor Hughes Network Systems will test and implement end-to-end services on OneWeb’s system between U.S. Northern Command sites. Hughes, a satellite internet service […]
