Ann Johnson, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of security, compliance and identity, on Thursday announced that her company has partnered with Tenable to improve the United State’s cybersecurity posture. She said that the partnership grew out of a common desire to support President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity issued in May 2021, Nextgov reported Tuesday. […]
Clare Grason, chief of the Space Force’s Commercial Satellite Communications Office, said that despite the current policy towards sourcing satellite services commercially, many military customers still distrust private sector solutions as a replacement for government-developed systems. She added that efforts are underway to build customer confidence in the products currently available in the market, SpaceNews […]
Officials at Dyess Air Force Base in Texas revealed that equipment acquired early in 2022 has given its repair and maintenance crews the capability to reproduce obsolete aircraft parts. The 7th Equipment Maintenance Squadron Fabrication Flight has been fabricating in-house aircraft and ground equipment parts that are no longer produced by their original manufacturers, Dyess […]
San Francisco-headquartered software developer BedRock Systems announced that it has joined the National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnership program, a private-public partnership to advance the state of cybersecurity practice in the United States. The NCEP program is a partnership between industry and the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, BedRock said Thursday. […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that its engineers fired a two-foot-diameter, subscale solid rocket booster in tests that took place on Wednesday at the Marshall Space Flight Center. During the test conducted at the center’s East Test Area, the new rocket managed to produce 92,000 pounds of thrust, NASA said Saturday. In a […]
Colorado-headquartered Intermap Technologies announced that it has been awarded a Multiple Award Schedule contract by the General Services Administration, paving the way for the Department of Defense, federal civilian agencies, and state and local governments to purchase its offerings. The award provides agencies with easy access to timely 3D elevation products, source agnostic processing services […]
San Diego-headquartered Cubic Corporation announced that it has been awarded a subcontract by Carley Corporation under its prime contract with the Navy to deliver training content that sailors would need over the course of their careers. Specifically, the award supports the Sailor 2025 Ready, Relevant Learning Fiscal Year 2022 Content Conversion contract, Cubic said Thursday. […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced the selection of Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace to help with the development of next-generation spacesuits that astronauts will use when working outside the International Space Station and exploring the lunar surface. Developing spacesuits better suited for the rigors of deep space will be crucial to longer-term plans […]
California State University, San Bernardino on Tuesday announced that it will be the first school to take part in a new Space Force recruitment initiative called the Cyber Halo Innovation Research Program. Through this effort, the Space Systems Command and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are seeking to recruit the service’s next-generation of cyber professionals in […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced that it has launched the second phase of its Break the Ice Lunar Challenge, a competition for advancing technology in excavating the moon’s surface. The contest is in line with efforts to make astronauts less dependent on supply deliveries from Earth by giving the technologies to mine the […]
