The Department of Energy has earmarked $70 million in funding for research in Earth system model development to advance its Energy Exascale Earth System Model project. E3SM is an ongoing project aimed at optimizing the DOE’s allocation of laboratory resources for Earth system modeling, simulation and prediction. The new Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing funding […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory is working with a team of U.S. and U.K.-based researchers to construct a high-powered Earth-based optical telescope in New Mexico. The Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer will be built on a site managed by the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in the city of Socorro. NMT will work with […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency should assess the effectiveness of its efforts to protect the communications sector, a government watchdog said in a report. The Government Accountability Office said that the communications sector is facing physical and cyber threats at the local, regional and national levels. CISA is the agency most responsible for ensuring […]
BigBear .ai, a data analytics company, has been awarded a contract to develop a planning platform for the U.S. Army’s Global Force Information Management program. GFIM is part of the Army’s Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems’ Army Data and Analytics Platforms portfolio, BigBear .ai said Monday. Ryan Legge, analytics sector vice president at BigBear […]
David Meredith serves as the CEO and board director of Everbridge, a provider of critical event management software-as-a-service solutions. Everbridge offers solutions for mass notification of incidents, crisis management, unified enterprise risk management and information technology incident response. The company said it has nearly 6,000 enterprise and health care customers, including eight U.S. cities, nine […]
Jim Milton serves as the chairman and CEO of Anthology, a Boca Raton, Florida-based company that specializes in technology-driven higher education solutions. The company also offers professional services, instructor-led training and managed services for its products. Anthology was founded in July 2020 through a combination of education technology companies Campus Management, Campus Labs and iModules. […]
Critical events are incidents that pose a serious risk to an organization’s people or assets. A critical event management strategy ensures that an organization can quickly respond to or mitigate the impact of such threats, CEM software provider Everbridge said. Gartner, a research and consulting organization, was quoted by Everbridge as saying that organizations prefer to consolidate […]
The Air Force Test Center, a development and test organization, has concluded its Data Hackathon aimed at enhancing airmen’s ability to take advantage of data. Participants from the 412th Test Wing, the 96th Test Wing and the Arnold Engineering Development Complex came together for the five-day event that was simultaneously held in different locations, AFTC […]
The Department of Defense has formally issued requests for proposals to the companies vying for spots on a new enterprise multi-cloud effort. Hyperscale cloud companies Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle received invitations to bid on the DOD’s indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, FedScoop reported. JWCC is the replacement to the potential […]
The U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center has awarded power management company Eaton a grant to investigate 3D printing use cases. Under the terms of the deal, Eaton will work with the University of Toledo in exploring how additive manufacturing and advanced materials can replace damaged components in support of the U.S. Army Corps […]
