The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the first revision to its flagship cyber resiliency guidance with updated controls and a single threat taxonomy. A product of the institute’s Systems Security Engineering initiative, the guidance reflects the latest cyber resiliency implementation approaches for engineers to address known hacker tactics laid out in the […]
U.S. Army researchers are developing spectrum visualization technology that will provide the ability to maintain control over remotely controlled vehicles at greater distances, effectively avoiding “orphan robots” on the battlefield. The technology was originally conceived as a means of maintaining communications with dismounted soldiers caught up in the flurry of war, Signal Magazine reported Wednesday. […]
Maxar Technologies announced Wednesday that the National Reconnaissance Office has exercised a contract option to continue procuring satellite imagery services from the company through August 2022. The NRO, the agency developing and operating classified spy satellites, acquires satellite imagery from multiple commercial vendors, but it was reported that Maxar is its largest supplier. The NRO […]
The Department of Energy is integrating machine learning with a threat information-sharing tool the agency developed to find cybersecurity adversaries embedded in electric grid control systems, an official close to the project revealed. Rita Foster, infrastructure adviser at the Idaho National Laboratory, said embedded systems are “black boxes with little insight on what subcomponents make […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on Tuesday announced the development of the Learning Introspective Control program, which aims to develop machine learning-based introspection technologies that enable systems to “adapt their control laws as they encounter uncertainty or unexpected events.” The program allows older military systems to be upgraded safely by anticipating risks that may […]
Jonathan Alboum is currently the principal digital strategist for the federal government at software company ServiceNow, working out of the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area. He described himself as a trusted technology thought leader, adviser to executives and a mentor to many. Alboum has held the titles chief information officer and chief technology officer at different times […]
The General Services Administration is set to release XML-automated validations allowing vendors to check their security authorization packages for completeness before submitting them to the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, news reports revealed. FedRAMP used Schematron’s rule-based validation for making assertions against XML to automate the process and wants vendors to self-test their packages […]
The Biden administration has yet to decide on whether to support the proposed creation by Congress of a Bureau of Cyber Statistics, the official responsible for the U.S.’ cyber policy and strategy said. National Cyber Director Chris Inglis, who is the first to hold the position under the newly-created office, said at the Aug. 2 […]
A sophisticated X-ray solar imager was successfully launched on a brief but potentially illuminating suborbital flight via sounding rocket to gather new insights about how and why the sun’s corona grows so much hotter than the actual solar surface, NASA said Monday. The rocket carrying the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer was launched from the […]
Gen. Mike Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, sought to draw parallels between the current era and the years separating the two World Wars, which saw unprecedented advancements in weapons technology. The last time the military failed to master new technological advances after World War I, the loss of life in the next war […]
