Real-Time Innovations, an intelligent automation company based in Sunnyvale, California, has won a spot on a potential $950 million U.S. Air Force contract for a range of technical services. RTI said its software has been deployed in autonomous vehicles, power plants, combat management systems on ships, medical robots and systems. Under the new indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, […]
The Department of Defense has awarded IBM a 33-month work order to provide microelectronics supply chain security services. IBM said that its professional services division will establish secured chipmaking flows at its fabrication facilities. Work will be done as part of the Defense Microelectronics Activity’s Trusted Foundry Access II program, IBM said Wednesday. Susan Wedge, […]
The Department of Homeland Security has partnered with the U.S. Army to open a chemical security laboratory in Maryland. Located at Aberdeen Proving Ground, the CSL will serve as an experimental site where experts can validate scientific data and produce new findings, DHS’ Science and Technology Directorate said Wednesday. The effort is a collaboration between […]
The Department of Energy has invested $14 million in efforts to improve climate change predictions. DOE awarded the funding to 22 three-year projects across 11 U.S. states, the District of Columbia and Canada. DOE said that having a better understanding of extreme weather and climate patterns is important for meeting President Joe Biden’s climate goals. […]
The White House’s Office of Management and Budget is mulling the creation of a real-time trustworthiness scoring system for commercial zero trust solutions. Dan Chandler, chief information security officer in OMB’s Management and Operations division, explained that agencies rely on authentication tools made by companies like Google, Amazon and Microsoft. However, people’s trust in systems like […]
AFCEA International, a nonprofit membership organization, has appointed retired U.S. Air Force Col. Michael Black as vice president for defense. He will work to strengthen AFCEA’s position in areas such as cyber, security, intelligence and information technology. Black will also be responsible for building professional relationships with partners in the private and public sectors, AFCEA […]
Companies seeking business with the public sector are facing an increasingly competitive environment, according to government contracting expert Kevin Plexico, senior vice president of information solutions at Deltek. In a Deltek survey of government contractors, about a third of the respondents included competition among their top three business development challenges. Other challenges included limited resources […]
John Douglas is the head of public sector marketing at SambaNova Systems, a computer hardware manufacturing company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Founded in 2017, the company specializes in the rapid deployment of deep learning artificial intelligence solutions, its website says. In his role, Douglas is focused on driving SambaNova’s business in the defense, intelligence […]
Juniper Networks, a developer of networking products, has entered into a distribution agreement with Carahsoft Technology. Carahsoft will make Juniper Networks’ artificial intelligence-enabled offerings available through its reseller partner network and through its NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and OMNIA Partners contracts. The partnership will increase the public sector’s access […]
Lt. Gen. Michael Schmidt, a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, has assumed leadership of the Department of Defense’s F-35 Joint Program Office. He succeeded Air Force Lt. Gen. Eric Fick, who had held the role since July 2019. Schmidt will lead an office that is currently in protracted negotiations with Lockheed Martin […]
