The Army has awarded Research Innovations Inc. a $21M prototype agreement to support the Army's requirement for cyber situational understanding. RII said its trademarked IMPACT platform will serve as the Army's foundation for creating a prototype cyber situational awareness software solution. The project is aimed at simplifying cyberspace across a range of military operations, allowing commanders […]
The Department of Defense has selected Intel and the Georgia Institute of Technology to lead a team that would bolster cybersecurity defenses against deception attacks on machine learning models. Under a four-year effort, the duo will lead a Guaranteeing Artificial Intelligence Robustness against Deception program team in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, […]
Joseph Bopp serves as Caliburn's senior vice president of business development, leveraging nearly three decades of experience holding security roles for the federal government. Bopp joined Comprehensive Health Services in 2014 as vice president of strategy and major initiatives. The company has since become a subsidiary of Caliburn, according to his LinkedIn profile. Bopp spent […]
The Department of Defense plans to retain many of its new teleworking capabilities even after the coronavirus pandemic to establish a digitally connected workforce. DOD Chief Information Officer Dana Deasy touted the effectiveness of the Pentagon's expanded bandwidth and network access and additional devices. Bradford Shwedo, CIO for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the […]
The Senate's Office of the Sergeant at Arms is seeking industry players that can provide insider-threat and privacy assessments for the Senate's networks. In an April 6 solicitation, SAA said it needs help protecting Senate data such as personally identifiable information or health data. The vendor shall also help the SAA's cybersecurity department with auditing data […]
Sysdig, a cloud-native visibility and security company, has expanded the availability of its monitoring tools across IBM's public cloud services. The company's platform, which IBM initially integrated in June 2018, now includes services such as IBM Watson, Event Streams, Cloud Databases, Cloud Object Storage and Cloud Foundry. Sysdig announced in March that its platform is compatible […]
Gavin Greene serves as Centauri's vice president of space and airborne engineering, leveraging about two decades of technology industry experience in corporate strategy and growth. He is responsible for delivering the company's security, technology and engineering solutions to intelligence and defense customers. Before he joined Centauri in October 2019, Greene served as NT Concept's vice president of […]
A Fort Riley armored brigade team has conducted a soldier-operated drone flight to determine what capabilities must be included in the next generation of unmanned aerial systems. Data gathered during the Future Tactical UAS capabilities assessment will be key to the development of the RQ-7 Shadow replacement. The system, named Arcturus UAV JUMP 20, features […]
NASA has awarded Amentum, formerly AECOM Management Services, a potential $165M contract to provide propellants and life support services both for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract includes a three-month phase-in period, a two-year base period, a two-year option period and six one-year option periods. NASA […]
The Department of Defense has delayed the deadline for fiscal 2020 budget requests to allow military and civilian personnel to work from home during the coronavirus pandemic. According to Deputy Secretary David Norquist, each service branch had been required to submit a program objective memorandum on June 1. The deadline was supposedly preventing service officials from […]
