The Senate has confirmed Air Force Maj. Gen. Kevin Kennedy, a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, as the commander of the 16th Air Force, an information warfare organization based in Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Also known as Air Forces Cyber, the numbered Air Force provides multi-source intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, electronic warfare […]
The Department of Health and Human Services should create a way for health care organizations to provide feedback on the agency’s cyber breach reporting process, a government watchdog said. HHS’ Office of Civil Rights is responsible for enforcing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act‘s security standards as required by a law enacted in January […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs announced that its three main web portals now share a single sign-on solution. VA .gov, My HealthVet and the Health and Benefits mobile app are now using the Login .gov tool operated by the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Services, VA said Tuesday. Chief Technology Officer Charles Worthington said the […]
Michael Costas serves as general manager and principal vice president at Bechtel National, an engineering and construction company that works with clients in sectors such as defense, environmental management and manufacturing. Since he took on his role more than four years ago, Costas has worked on large-scale construction projects for the Department of Defense and […]
Sigma Defense Systems, a defense and intelligence technology company, has appointed retired Rear. Adm. Edward Anderson as vice president of maritime strategy. Anderson brings 32 years of service experience into his new role. As VP, he will oversee advancing business development with a focus on maritime networks, Sigma Defense said Monday. He will report to […]
Both chambers of Congress are looking to give the Department of Defense an annual budget that blows past the $773 billion proposed by President Joe Biden. Last week, the House Armed Services Committee voted in favor of giving the DOD an extra $37 billion, accounting for higher fuel costs, Ukraine aid and the purchase of […]
Guidehouse, a consulting services company, has entered into a strategic joint venture with technical solutions provider TechSur. As part of the partnership, Guidehouse will provide mentorship to TechSur under the Small Business Administration’s Mentor-Protege program. The SBA approves a mentor-protege agreement if it determines that it will promote real development gains for the protege, according […]
The Senate has confirmed Maj. Gen. Ross Coffman as the next deputy commander of the Army Futures Command, a young organization that leads modernization projects for the U.S. Army. With his new assignment, Coffman was promoted to the grade of lieutenant general and is set to succeed Lt. Gen. James Richardson, who has been serving […]
Federal cybersecurity authorities have warned that hackers are still exploiting Log4Shell in unpatched VMware software. In a joint advisory, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the U.S. Coast Guard Cyber Command said that the vulnerability affects VMware Horizon and Unified Access Gateway servers that have not been updated. VMware released its first Log4Shell fix […]
The Department of Energy has announced new investments in the electrification and decarbonization of the U.S. industrial sector. DOE issued a $70 million funding opportunity announcement for the establishment of a seventh Clean Energy Manufacturing Innovation Institute focused on electrifying industrial process heating. Kelly Speakes-Backman, principal deputy assistant secretary for energy efficiency and renewable energy, […]
