Mark Herrington is the chief executive officer at OnSolve, working out of Atlanta, Georgia. He is an innovator and operational executive with over 25 years of experience in guiding talented teams at leading technology firms in addition to being a dynamic and collaborative leader with a maniacal focus on execution and value creation, his LinkedIn […]
Montreal-based CGI Incorporated announced that its U.S. subsidiary, CGI Federal, won a U.S. General Services Administration task order to develop a modern Application Programming Interface-accessible, web-based application for managing catalog data, called the Common Catalog Platform. The task order features a phased approach that extends over a one-year base period and four, one-year option periods […]
The House of Representatives on Friday approved more than $500 million in cybersecurity funding in its version of President Joe Biden’s roughly $2 trillion Build Back Better package. The measure, which passed by a narrow vote of 220-213, earmarked most of the cyber funds to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, The Hill reported Friday. The approved […]
The Missile Defense Agency has selected Raytheon Missiles & Defense as one of the companies to develop and test the first interceptor specifically designed to defeat hypersonic threats. The envisioned weapon, called Glide Phase Interceptor, will be produced to defeat a new generation of hypersonic missiles, weapons that travel more than five times the speed […]
Battelle Energy Alliance, which manages the Idaho National Laboratory for the Department of Energy, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have called on experts from the nuclear and space industry to develop innovative technologies for fission surface power systems for lunar applications. The FSP project aims to develop a durable, high-power, sun-independent power source […]
A member of the Space Force’s top brass on Saturday admitted that the United States is lagging behind China and Russia in the development of hypersonic missiles. Gen. David Thompson, the vice chief of space operations, said while all branches of the U.S. military have ongoing programs to develop their own hypersonic missiles, they must […]
NCI Information Systems announced that it has been awarded a two-year recompete for a $14 million prime contract from the Federal Communications Commission. The contract calls for the delivery of a new, modernized Universal Licensing System with a microservice-based API-driven design that complies with FCC non-functional requirements such as security, accessibility, scalability and data retention […]
SkyePoint Decisions announced that it has been awarded a new task order by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to support the agency’s Office of the Chief Information Officer. The task order is part of a proof-of-concept initiative, runs from October 2021 through March 2022, and was awarded under the CIO-SP3 Small Business contract, SkyePoint […]
The National Security Agency and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency on Thursday published new guidance directing operators of 5G cloud networks to cryptographically isolate critical containers. In the document, the two agencies called on operators to focus on protecting data by using hardware techniques like Trusted Execution Environments, FedScoop reported Thursday. The guidance defines […]
The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate awarded an $8.4 million contract to Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems for equipment in support of the Precise flight experiment, which is scheduled for launch in 2024. Under the deal, California-based Tyvak will be providing the AFRL with a spacecraft capable of maneuvering between low Earth orbit and very […]
