The Department of the Treasury's Bureau of the Fiscal Service has begun piloting an artificial intelligence algorithm designed to streamline the annual appropriations process. Without an AI tool, the bureau has to manually analyze the text of Congress' appropriation bills to determine which agencies get what amount of funding, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. Fiscal […]
The Marine Corps has asked industry to recommend technologies that can be used to analyze open-source information, including online public data. The service said its Capabilities Development Directorate has been working to identify gaps in the Marine Corps Information Environment Enterprise's publicly available information and OSINT analytics capabilities, SAM.gov posted. OSINT is intelligence that is […]
SpaceX will provide launch services for NASA's Power and Propulsion Element and Habitation and Logistics Outpost, which are key elements in the agency's Gateway orbital moon outpost. The company's Falcon Heavy rocket will launch the PPE and HALO elements after they are integrated with each other on Earth. They will be launched from Launch Complex […]
Lawmakers have called on the homeland security and intelligence communities to name a leader who will coordinate the federal government's response to the SolarWinds hack. Sens. Mark Warner and Marco Rubio said they received briefings suggesting the government's response is disjointed and disorganized. “The federal government's response so far has lacked the leadership and coordination […]
The Senate Armed Services Committee has confirmed Kathleen Hicks, a 2021 Wash100 winner, to the role of deputy secretary of defense. She led President Joe Biden's transition team at the Department of Defense. Hicks will work with Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin III, a fellow 2021 Wash100 winner, in operationalizing the Pentagon's strategy on China […]
The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Center of Excellence has partnered with Ignyte Assurance Platform to boost the resilience of the defense industrial base. IAP provides software for collecting and analyzing data to streamline multiple security frameworks at once, said Interoperability Clearinghouse, the managing partner of the Information Technology Acquisition Advisory Council. “This is exciting opportunity […]
BAE Systems has launched a suite of artificial intelligence capabilities and a new data labeling service offering designed to support national security missions. The solutions are available on Amazon Web Services for GovCloud. The AI tools were built to help government analysts sift through large quantities of data, signals and imagery, BAE said Monday. “Those […]
Cubic has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Veritas and Evergreen Coast, an affiliate of Elliot Investment Management, for $70 per share in cash. Veritas CEO and managing partner Ramzi Musallam, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and five-time Wash100 winner, said the partnership with Cubic's experts will accelerate product development […]
George Korch serves as the director of Battelle National Biodefense Institute's National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center, a government biodefense research laboratory created by the Department of Homeland Security. Based in Fort Detrick, Maryland, the NBACC is a federally funded research and development center specializing in helping identify and mitigate biological threats to national security, […]
Edward Harshberger is the vice president and director of RAND Project AIR FORCE, the Air Force's only federally funded research and development center. Harshberger leads an organization of 125 research professionals concerned with studies and analyses. PAF was founded in 1946 to retain the benefits of civilian scientific thinking shown in World War II, RAND […]
