Hanscom Air Force Base and the Air Combat Command are jointly developing a software-based perimeter that can enable zero trust security. Zero trust is a modern architecture that automatically denies resource requests until confidence can be established through identity verification and other measures, the Air Force said. Raju Ranjan, an engineer at Hanscom AFB’s AFNet […]
Gen. John Hyten, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has directed the military branches to make their data more accessible and interoperable. The general signed four new directives aimed at unlocking the large data sets that the Department of Defense needs to develop artificial intelligence and other capabilities, FedScoop reported Wednesday. A large […]
Infoscitex, a DCS company, has received two contracts with a combined value of $243 million and a shared seven-year period of performance that calls for services in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Aerospace Systems Directorate. The first contract, focused on aerospace technology development and testing, provides for transformative aerospace capabilities, control theory and […]
The U.S. Air Force has awarded KBR a $194.3 million task order to provide research support for microelectronics components. Under the contract, KBR is tasked with conducting research, developing, testing and analyzing the design and fabrication of microelectronics technologies at the Trusted Electronics Branch of the Air Force Research Laboratory. The task order is in […]
ManTech has won a $110 million contract to help the Naval Surface Warfare Center’s Crane Division develop and upgrade radar and electronic warfare systems used by the U.S. Navy. Under the contract, ManTech will provide its ACRE Cyber Range solution and intelligent systems engineering using its model-based systems engineering laboratory and cognitive cyber capabilities. Work […]
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks, a 2021 Wash100 winner, has announced a new initiative aimed at integrating teams of data experts within combatant commands to help them make better use of data. The effort, dubbed Artificial Intelligence and Data Accelerator, is part of the military’s Joint All Domain Command and Control strategy for future warfare. […]
The Department of Defense’s research and development arm is looking into the long-term viability of quantum computers, an emerging technology that could overturn the limitations of classical computing. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s quantum benchmarking program is aimed at developing tools for evaluating individual systems. GovernmentCIO Media & Research reported that while the federal […]
The Air Force has awarded a small business grant to Luminous Cyber Corp. to help the data science company advance its secure geolocation technology. Luminous Cyber said it was awarded a Small Business Innovation Research grant under AFWERX, a funding program aimed at encouraging innovation in the Air Force community. The company said its experimental […]
The Navy wants to reduce the minimum number of manned ships that will be part of its future fleet. According to an updated shipbuilding plan submitted to Congress, the Navy is targeting to build a fleet with 321 to 372 manned ships. The lower limit of that estimate is 34 ships short of the much-talked-about […]
The U.S. Army has awarded CACI International an $82 million contract to continue supporting cyber and ground electronic warfare missions. The contract was awarded by the Electronic Warfare Air/Ground Survivability Division of the Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Combat Systems, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center. Work on the four-year deal will involve monitoring, analyzing and developing […]
