The Air Force’s 837th Cyberspace Operations Squadron recently lent its expertise in cloud defense to improve the skills of international partners and the other services. The squadron conducted a cyber exercise in a cloud-based simulation where operators had to protect the medical data of fictional citizens from malicious attacks, C4ISRNET reported Friday. Cyber Dome, a […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the selection of 12 companies to provide launch services for its Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare missions will provide new opportunities for science and technology payloads and foster a growing commercial launch market. The fixed-price indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts have a five-year ordering period with a maximum total value […]
Kevin Wilson is the director of the Preparedness and Resilience Division at Virginia-based Dynamis, working out of the Washington-Baltimore Metropolitan Area. He is a security and emergency management professional with over 20 years of experience in program management, technical writing and emergency response planning and operations, including six years as a commanding officer in the […]
Paul Conboy is the director of crisis management at London-headquartered PricewaterhouseCoopers, working out of Arlington, Virginia. During his many years on the job, he has been appointed to develop strategic responses for ransomware attacks, hurricanes, the COVID-19 pandemic, the Northern California wildfires, and one of the largest corporate bankruptcy cases in United States history, according […]
Seattle-based Stratolaunch announced that it has been awarded a research contract by the Air Force Research Laboratory. The contract, which will be carried out in partnership with Booz Allen Hamilton, calls for the examination and assessment of the feasibility of hypersonic flight tests of a wide range of Air Force experiments and payloads on a […]
A General Services Administration official revealed that the agency wants wider access to a system that the Social Security Administration has been using for the past three years to reduce identity theft in the financial services sector for use in the provision of digital services by various other agencies. Congress specifically crafted a law to grant […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that it will move its next Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite weather satellite into position over the Western United States soon after it reaches orbit. This marks a departure from the traditional practice of allowing satellites to spend about six months in their initial geostationary orbital slot before they […]
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Gary Gensler on Monday called for the imposition of tougher cyber rules to protect investors from hackers and other online fraudsters. Gensler said that the commission’s staff is currently studying ways to tighten oversight on various players in the financial sector, such as advisers, brokerage firms and publicly traded companies, […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Monday revealed that it continues to face difficulties in sending some of its payloads to orbit as hosted payloads on commercial satellites. Charles Webb, the agency’s Earth Science Division associate director for flight programs, said there is an ongoing search for a geostationary commercial satellite to house the […]
Glenna Sowa is the deputy director of air traffic management research and engineering at LS Technologies, working out of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. She is a strategic technology leader with over 20 years of interdisciplinary research and hands-on technical leadership experience spanning aerospace and biotechnology fields, according to her LinkedIn profile. Sowa has a […]
