Siemens Government Technologies has been awarded a contract worth over $1.78 million to provide technological expertise to the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Counterterrorism and Emerging Threats. Under the contract, SGT, with the help of its affiliate, Siemens Digital Industries, will implement advanced industrial software for digital design and an automated manufacturing production demonstration […]
DLT Solutions announced that it has launched CloudNavigator .com, a new resource intended to help information technology solution providers grow their United States public-sector cloud businesses. CloudNavigator .com is another entry point for solution providers to engage with the DLT, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tech Data Corporation, and its Cloud Navigator Program. Chris Wilkinson, president of […]
U.S. Army 1st Lt. Mahdi Al-Husseini, a helicopter pilot with the XVIII Airborne Corps, has developed an artificial intelligence-based solution that could change the way pilots across the military and civil aviation advance their flying skills, and could help commanders better select pilots for specific missions. Al-Husseini’s innovation involves installing a camera and pointing it […]
The Defense Innovation Unit is seeking input from space and information technology companies on how to build a hybrid architecture of government and commercial satellites. In a solicitation, the DIU said it requires that the architecture integrate emergent commercial space sensor and communications capabilities with U.S. government space systems while incorporating best-in-class commercial practices to secure […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency announced that it has formed a partnership with Girls Who Code to develop opportunities for young women to pursue careers in cybersecurity and technology. In a statement, the agency said that its partnership with the non-profit organization addresses diversity disparities by working to open cybersecurity and technology careers to […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency announced that it has awarded five vendors spots on a new flexible contract amounting to $29 million, designed to enable best of class analytic solutions for economic-related GEOINT challenges. The awardees of the five-year operational contract are BAE Systems, Ball Aerospace, BlackSky, Continental Mapping Consultants and Royce Geospatial Consultants. The companies were […]
The U.S. Navy and Air Force have reaffirmed their mutual cybersecurity reciprocity commitment with the signing of a new memo on the sharing of security testing data for software. The document, which was published Monday, mostly reiterates the reciprocity pact outlined in a 2016 memo, but contains a provision stating that in cases where data-sharing […]
Members of the Federal Communications Commission voiced their unanimous support for the introduction of a new rule that would require mobile network companies to verify the identity of consumers requesting changes to their accounts. During a meeting Thursday, the commissioners backed the proposed guidance as a means to counter SIM card fraud. The commission is […]
Mike Hayes serves as the chief digital transformation officer at VMware, working out of Westport, Connecticut. He has led the cloud computing and virtualization technology company’s global business operations and acceleration of the software as a service transition, supervising the team tasked with technology, enterprise data and analytics, business transformation and automation, mergers and acquisitions […]
Cybersecurity company BlueVoyant announced that it has purchased data solutions company Concanon, to make it possible to provide more services and solutions to customers, allowing patrons to maximize their investments in the Splunk Cloud Platform. With the acquisition, Concanon becomes a standalone but wholly-owned subsidiary of BlueVoyant. Under the new arrangement, Florida-based Concanon will coordinate […]
