The Air Force will use an unprecedented approach to building out the software component of future sixth-generation fighter jets. According to a top official, fighters designed under the Next Generation Air Dominance program will have a flight control software that is decoupled from its mission control software, Breaking Defense reported. Gen. Charles Brown, the Air […]
Telos, a cybersecurity and information security company, has entered into a distribution agreement with Carahsoft Technology. As part of the partnership, Telos’ virtual obfuscation, cyber risk management and compliance automation solutions will be made more widely available for public-sector customers, Carahsoft said. Telos’ offerings will be available through Carahsoft’s NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, […]
The Department of Health and Human Services is working on a new data exchange system designed to merge different health information networks. HHS is developing the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement to create a single point of access for health records, Federal News Network reported. Micky Tripathi, national coordinator for health information technology at […]
Digital .ai, a Boston, Massachusetts-based software company, announced that its DevOps tracking platform has attained Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program agency authorization at the moderate impact level. FedRAMP is a government-wide program that gives security ratings to cloud-based products and services marketed to federal agencies. According to the FedRAMP website, moderate-impact systems are appropriate […]
The Department of Energy has invested $26 million for research in scientific data management and visualization. DOE said that the funding is aimed at addressing the growing volume of scientific data generated by scientific experiments and supercomputers. DOE earmarked $13 million of the funding to improve the management of data used for machine learning and […]
The Department of Defense’s Strategic Capabilities Office plans to construct and demonstrate the first electricity-generating Generation IV nuclear reactor in the United States. As part of Project Pele, the SCO will build a mobile microreactor that can be transported by the DOD and can deliver up to 5 megawatts of electricity for at least three […]
The Air Force’s fiscal year 2023 budget proposal includes $113 million in research and development funding for autonomous aerial drones and networked weapons. Frank Kendall, secretary of the Department of the Air Force and a speaker at an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event, said that manned platforms are too expensive to satisfy the Air Force’s […]
Pamela Arya serves as the vice president of government programs at Iridium, a global satellite communications company. Iridium offers services to customers in the personal communications, transportation and delivery, industrial, government, aviation, maritime, emergency, research and autonomous systems markets, among others. Prior to joining Iridium in December 2017, Arya co-founded and served as the CEO […]
Government services is a lucrative sector that offers a wide range of contracting opportunities. According to Bloomberg, the U.S. government’s contract spending reached a record-breaking $682 billion in fiscal year 2020 during the height of the pandemic. Kevin Plexico, senior vice president for information solutions at Deltek and a contributor to Executive Mosaic’s GovCon Expert […]
The House of Representatives has passed its version of a bill seeking to give the Department of Homeland Security more tools to strengthen national cybersecurity preparedness. The National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium Act of 2021, which was proposed by Sens. John Cornyn and Patrick Leahy in March 2021, would authorize DHS to collaborate with the National […]
