The Department of the Air Force’s AFWERX and the U.S. Space Force’s SpaceWERX have selected eligible applicants for their Strategic Funding Increase program for 2024. STRATFI is designed to help small businesses overcome challenges between development and full production. A small business benefits from the program as it receives support from a partner government organization, […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched the Additive Manufacturing of Microelectronic systEms program, a project that aims to revolutionize microsystems manufacturing using the latest technologies. AMME Program Manager Michael Sangillo said the program aims to transform additive manufacturing by removing the design rules associated with traditional manufacturing and creating new technologies that open […]
The departments of Veterans Affairs and Defense and the Federal Electronic Health Record Modernization office introduced the Federal Electronic Health Record at the Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center in Illinois on Saturday. Lovell FHCC Director Dr. Robert Buckley said that the federal EHR rollout will improve all patient experiences as it enables […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency recently hosted the Open Source Software Security Summit, bringing together the open-source community to ensure a secure ecosystem. At the two-day event, CISA announced that it will be leading several initiatives, including promoting the adoption of the Principles for Package Repository Security and launching an effort to enable voluntary […]
The National Security Agency has issued a report highlighting ten recommended strategies to improve cloud security practices. The report emphasizes the importance of the cloud shared responsibility model, educating the need for the customer and the cloud provider to have a shared responsibility in securing cloud environments. The NSA said it could be achieved by […]
Lawmakers have introduced the Enhanced Cybersecurity for SNAP Act, a bipartisan bicameral bill aiming to enhance the security of electronic benefits transfer cards to protect beneficiaries of the Supplemental Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program from fraud. If enacted, the Act will mandate the Department of Agriculture to require states to issue EBT cards with secure chips […]
The White House’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee is calling on the federal government to adopt new programs to incentivize critical infrastructure operators that adhere to cybersecurity standards. The group, composed of representatives from U.S. telecommunications and cybersecurity companies, said the need to introduce new incentive programs comes from the fact that current market forces […]
Reps. Judy Chu, D-Calif., and Don Bacon, R-Neb., have restarted the Planetary Science Caucus in Congress, aiming to educate other lawmakers and the public on the importance of space exploration. In an event hosted by The Planetary Society on Tuesday, Chu said that the United States needs the caucus at a time when the future […]
House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., and Ranking Member Jamie Raskin, D-Md., have introduced the Federal AI Governance and Transparency Act, enabling the government to improve the transparency of artificial intelligence use in federal agencies. The bipartisan bill aims to achieve its goals by creating additional public accountability mechanisms, defining federal […]
The Space Development Agency aims to have its Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture, a “mesh network” of laser communication crosslinks allowing data to move rapidly around the world, completed in 2024 and operational soon. Speaking at a SpaceNews webinar on Wednesday, Derek M. Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency, said that the agency is working […]
