The Government Accountability Office says in a report released on May 10 that the Department of Transportation and the Office of Personnel Management have yet to implement prior recommendations regarding the modernization of their legacy IT systems. In 2019, the GAO flagged eight government agencies either for having incomplete plans to modernize the critical legacy […]
NASA is awarding 15 learning institutions from across participating United States jurisdictions over $10.8 million in grants this year under the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research. EPSCoR is an annual program that seeks to fund research projects with the aim of improving the R&D capacity and research infrastructure of the participating jurisdictions. Currently, EPSCoR […]
An official from the National Institute of Standards and Technology recently underscored the importance of carrying out risk assessments before an artificial intelligence system is deployed. Elham Tabassi, the NIST Information Technology Laboratory’s chief of staff, said during a panel on March 6 that risk assessments must determine whether an AI system benefits everyone in […]
New York Rep. Ritchie Torres has asked the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Transportation to review vulnerabilities that might impact national air travel. Torres’ request, which was directed to CISA Director and 2022 Wash100 winner Jen Easterly, follows a system outage within the Federal Aviation Administration on Jan. 11 that caused […]
The fourth flight test of the Northrop Grumman AGM-88G Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile Extended Range weapon took place on Nov. 30 at the Point Mugu Sea Range in California. The test saw the missile launch from a U.S. Navy F-18 aircraft and engage a moving maritime target, validating its effectiveness against such threats. The AAGM-ER […]
U.S. Army battalions in Fort Gordon recently finished testing a cloud-based platform meant to support the service’s intelligence officers by aggregating data from various sources, processing that information and presenting it via dashboards and other tools. The Army Intelligence Data Platform is part of the service’s cloud-based command post computing environment and is meant to […]
The Department of Defense has awarded computing security company Illumio an Enterprise Software Initiative purchase agreement that, according to Mark Sincevich, federal director at Illumio, would make it easier for defense and intelligence organizations to acquire and implement his company’s Zero Trust Segmentation Platform. For Sincevich, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, the interconnectedness […]
The Defense Innovation Unit has issued a solicitation for a self-contained defensive cyber operations platform that can work with different cybersecurity tools and is compatible with Dell XR2 rack servers. The platform is expected to provide the Department of Defense with the ability to detect and mitigate, if not altogether deny, cyber attacks launched by […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded At-Impact a contract to support the Information Technology Service Manager, a suite of IT tools used by the USDA’s Client Experience Center to support enterprise applications. At-Impact is a joint venture between management and technology consulting services provider Attain and NetImpact Strategies, a woman-owned small business whose specializations […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in partnership with the Atlanta University Center Consortium, will hold the 5th Annual National Cybersecurity Summit, which will take place on Oct. 4 at the Ray Charles Performing Arts Center in Atlanta. In attendance will be CISA Director Jen Easterly, who will deliver the event’s opening and closing remarks. […]
