Michelle Rudnicki, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, serves as vice president of U.S. public sector at NetApp, a California-based data management company that provides hybrid cloud data services. She is responsible for leading the public sector team’s strategic, financial and business pursuits as they relate to customers and channels, NetApp said. NetApp hired […]
In late 2020, the government’s COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium provided medical researchers with the brute computational power they needed to identify potential near-term therapies for patients afflicted with the coronavirus. HPC systems can perform up to quintillions of calculations per second and unlock a world of possibilities outside the bounds of consumer-grade electronics. The technology’s applications […]
The Department of Homeland Security has announced two awards under the Secure and Resilient Mobile Network Infrastructure project, a joint effort between the DHS Science and Technology Directorate and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency. SRMNI is aimed at helping CISA secure the information and communications technology supply chain as well as critical mobile network infrastructure. […]
The role of the Cyber National Mission Force‘s emerging threats task force is focused on protecting critical military infrastructure, according to a spokesperson from U.S. Cyber Command. USCYEBRCOM established an emerging threats task force as part of the 2018 reorganization of CNMF, which is responsible for countering nation-state actors in cyberspace, the spokesperson told C4ISRNET. […]
General Dynamics has announced that its Gulfstream Aerospace subsidiary has been awarded $696 million in contracts to provide engineering services and contractor logistics support to the Air Force. Gulfstream, an aircraft manufacturing subsidiary, will perform work on C-20 and C-37 aircraft for the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, General Dynamics said Tuesday. One of […]
MicroTech announced that it has won a spot on the Defense Intelligence Agency’s $12.6 billion Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise III contract vehicle. SITE III is a potential 10-year contract that covers strategic, technical and program management guidance and support services aimed at modernizing DIA infrastructure, systems and applications, MicroTech said Tuesday. The contract […]
Intel said it has signed an agreement to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency develop an accelerator for fully homomorphic encryption, a form of encryption that allows one to perform calculations on encrypted data without decryption. The effort will be done as part of DARPA’s Data Protection in Virtual Environments program, Intel said. Rosario […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has awarded the University of Texas at San Antonio a $1.2 million grant to conduct a pilot program for state, local, tribal and territorial governments. UTSA’s Center for Infrastructure Assurance and Security will help governments identify high-value assets to prioritize resources and planning with the goal of protecting them, […]
Commercial space company Momentus has announced a service agreement with Xona Space Systems, a startup developing positioning, navigation and timing satellites in low-Earth orbit. Momentus said the agreement will give Xona access to in-space infrastructure services in support of its 2020 Alpha mission, Inside GNSS reported Monday. Momentus offers a spacecraft called Vigoride that was […]
The U.S. Space Force has awarded United Launch Alliance and SpaceX contracts for four National Security Space Launch Phase 2 missions. ULA received $224.29 million in firm-fixed-price task orders to provide basic launch services and mission integration for USSF-112 and USSF-87, the Department of Defense said. Work will be done in Centennial, Colorado; and Cape […]
