Rocket Lab USA said that its Colorado-based aerospace engineering subsidiary, Advanced Solutions Inc., contributed to a major Department of Defense satellite experiment in June. ASI provided space software, mission simulation and testing solutions for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Space Development Agency’s Mandrake-2 mission, Rocket Lab said Thursday. During the demonstration, the DOD […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory said it is making progress in establishing regional research hubs in the Midwest and the Mid-Atlantic regions. In February, AFRL partnered with Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, for its Regional Research Hub pilot program. The effort is aimed at building out a […]
The National Security Agency has published a cybersecurity technical report characterizing the Department of Defense’s approach to protecting its custom microelectronics components. Authored by the NSA’s Joint Federated Assurance Center, the document discusses three levels of protection for configurable devices, including application-specific integrated circuits and field-programmable gate arrays. A device’s level of hardware assurance is […]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration announced that all U.S. states, territories and the District of Columbia have agreed to participate in the Internet for All initiative. The Biden Administration drew $65 billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to fund the initiative, which is aimed at providing affordable high-speed internet to all Americans, the Department […]
The Department of Energy has invested $78 million in efforts to drive innovation in high-energy physics. DOE awarded the funding to projects at 44 colleges and universities across 22 states. Some of the topics to be tackled are the Higgs boson, neutrinos, dark matter, dark energy, quantum theory and undiscovered fields of physics. The Office […]
Thomas Bonina, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, is the president of the health information technology operating group at Koniag Government Services. In his role, Bonina is in charge of a team of IT professionals supporting federal clients, including the Defense Health Agency, Indian Health Service, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health […]
Serco, the Americas division of Serco Group, has appointed Tom Watson as CEO, effective Sept. 1. Watson, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, currently serves as Serco’s senior vice president of defense services. He will succeed retiring CEO and Chairman Dave Dacquino, also a POC member and a two-time Wash100 winner. Dacquino will continue […]
U.S. health care organizations are currently accelerating the transition of technologies and capabilities out to market. Robert Wood, an information security executive at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said that year-long technology development cycles are no longer viable in the health care sector, especially for startups. “The unfortunate thing with technology is that […]
ClearInfo, a maker of enterprise information management solutions, has entered into a distribution partnership with government contracting aggregator Carahsoft Technology. As part of the partnership, Carahsoft will make ClearInfo’s unstructured data management solutions more widely accessible to the public sector. ClearInfo’s offerings will be made available through the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-Software 2, NASA Solutions […]
U.S. and Australian leaders have met in Sydney to affirm their countries’ cooperation in accelerating the development of clean energy technologies. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm and Australian energy minister Chris Bowen signed the Australia-United States Net-Zero Technology Acceleration Partnership on July 11. The agreement includes provisions for protecting supply chains critical for reducing greenhouse […]
