Lawmakers in the House of Representatives want the U.S. Space Force to consider relying on only one company for national security space launch integration. The House Armed Services Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee recommended having a single integrator for department customers, satellite manufacturers and space launch providers, C4ISRNET reported. Having a single vendor might be an […]
Doug Kothe, a high-performance computing researcher at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been given the role of associate laboratory director of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate. His appointment came weeks after ORNL unveiled Frontier, an exascale supercomputer that stole the title from Japanese-made Fugaku as the world’s fastest computer. Frontier is housed in CCSD’s […]
The U.S. Marine Corps plans to train some of its technology talent at the U.S. Army’s software factory in Austin, Texas. Announced in 2020, the software factory is an organization dedicated to building warfighting software products and creating a tech-savvy workforce. Retired Gen. John Murray, the first commanding general of the Army Futures Command, previously […]
The Department of Homeland Security has issued a request for proposals for a permanent bug bounty program, which would crowd-source cybersecurity testing services from vetted researchers. DHS intends to issue a multiple-award indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract worth up to $43.16 million for the solicitation, according to the RFP posted on SAM .gov. The contractor is required to […]
Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm has issued a statement welcoming Shalanda Baker as the incoming director of the Department of Energy’s Office of Economic Impact and Diversity. The Senate voted 54-45 in favor of her confirmation, according to a notice on the Senate website. Granholm said that Baker has contributed to President Joe Biden’s Justice40 […]
Siemens Government Technologies, Siemens’ buildings technology subsidiary, announced that its suite of software-as-a-service products for defense users is low listed on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Marketplace. FedRAMP is a program that provides security certifications for cloud-based products and services offered to federal agencies. The program’s standardized assessment also promotes government-wide adoption of […]
The Department of Defense’s newly established Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office is continuously exploring ways to close capability gaps in support of the warfighter, according to technology leaders at the Pentagon. Craig Martell, the CDAO’s first-ever permanent lead, said that his office needs to keep identifying where AI can provide the most value, which […]
President Joe Biden has nominated Air Force Gen. Anthony Cotton to serve as the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska. USSTRATCOM coordinates command and control capabilities to provide timely information to commanders and U.S. leaders, the unified combatant command says on its website. The organization is also tasked […]
Outdated technologies are holding back federal agencies from fully complying with modern cybersecurity standards, including multi-factor authentication, a homeland security official said. MFA is a security measure that requires individuals to present two or more types of credentials before being allowed to access an account. Eric Goldstein, the executive director of cybersecurity at the Cybersecurity […]
The role of the chief information officer has changed since the title was coined in the 1980s. Companies have since transitioned from the simpler databases of past decades toward modern technologies like the cloud. The number of CIOs grew in line with the increasing involvement of information technology in business. According to the findings of […]
