Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to outsource the development and maintenance of new and existing applications in a new center of excellence in January. ICE’s Scalable Initiate Flexible Tasks program is aimed at supporting the development of platform-as-a-service, hyperautomation, visualization and collaborative services applications, FedScoop reported Tuesday. The PaaS segment covers ServiceNow and Dynamics systems […]
CyCognito, a cybersecurity company specializing in attack surface management, has entered into a distribution agreement with Carahsoft Technology. As part of their alliance, Carahsoft will help extend CyCognito’s reach into the public sector market. Carahsoft will improve product availability through its NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V, Information Technology Enterprise-Solutions 2, OMNIA Partners, National Association […]
EnerSys said its ABSL lithium-ion battery was successfully integrated with NASA’s recently launched James Webb Space Telescope, considered to be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope. Northrop Grumman, NASA’s prime contractor for the telescope launch, tapped EnerSys in 2012 to provide its 8s44p rechargeable Li-ion batteries for Webb. Northrop placed a second order in […]
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory has named Susan Hubbard as its new deputy for science and technology, effective March 1, 2022. Hubbard is a researcher known for her work in hydrogeophysics, as well as her leadership in career development programs for early-career scientists, ORNL said Monday. ORNL Director Thomas Zacharia said Hubbard is a champion […]
Carlo Zaffanella serves as vice president and general manager of maritime and strategic systems at General Dynamics Mission Systems, a General Dynamics business unit focused on integrating secure communication and information systems and technology. GDMS delivers technologies for platforms such as combat vehicles, submarines, aircraft, satellites and advanced sensing systems, according to the company’s website. […]
Stephen Kovac, the chief compliance officer and head of global government affairs at Zscaler, said in an FCW commentary that the government should provide more resources to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. FedRAMP is a government-wide program that serves as a standardized approach to evaluating the security of cloud-based products and services. Kovac, […]
The Army has awarded Northrop Grumman a $1.4 billion production contract for the Integrated Battle Command System. Under the terms of the five-year deal, Northrop will launch initial low-rate production and full-rate production of the integrated missile defense system, which is expected to link disparate missile defense assets, Breaking Defense reported. IBCS is a key […]
The Army Contracting Command is looking for vendors qualified to provide information technology support services to the U.S. Southern Command J8 Directorate. The directorate is tasked with managing multilateral engagement activities with the unified combatant command’s partner nations. J8 specifically needs a contractor to maintain the Traditional Commander Activities program database—known as the Cloud-based TCA […]
The Department of Energy has earmarked $35 million in funding for efforts to increase understanding of nuclear physics concepts such as the nucleon structure, nuclear matter and strong force. The funding is available through the Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing program, which is focused on maximizing the utility of high-performance computing resources for scientific research, […]
The Department of Defense must ensure that its artificial intelligence systems are governable before the technology is applied to Joint All-Domain Command and Control, according to an AI expert at Northrop Grumman. Governability entails that operators can easily determine if an AI system is not performing as intended, Breaking Defense said. Amanda Muller, consulting AI […]
