The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center‘s Cryptologic and Cyber Systems Division has awarded Sigma Defense company Solute a contract to apply improvements to the military branch’s Platform One. Under the contract, Solute will enhance the supply chain security, application implementation and container configuration for Platform One’s Iron Bank and Big Bang product lines. […]
The second-highest-ranking Space Force officer revealed that the service’s new training strategy will combine traditional development and operational testing into one regime in a bid to reduce costs and hasten the acquisition of new technologies. Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. David Thompson said that the integrated testing process is envisioned to speed-up up decision-making […]
Twilio, a maker of programmable communication tools, has expanded its distribution agreement with Carahsoft Technology. As part of their partnership, Carahsoft will make Twilio’s secure communications offerings available through its General Services Administration-Information Technology Schedule 70 contract. The collaboration will increase the solutions’ availability to the public sector, Twilio said Thursday. Twilio said that its […]
The Government Accountability Office has reported shortcomings in how the Department of Defense keeps track of its development of a jamming-resistant Global Positioning System signal. For more than two decades, the DOD has been developing a military-specific signal called M-code. The U.S. Space Force is close to completing the satellite infrastructure for broadcasting the signal. […]
The U.S. Special Operations Command wants to develop software at a rapid pace to allow it to stay abreast with industry standards, and it wants to do so by finding a way around the Department of Defense’s bureaucratic structure. In an interview with National Defense Magazine, Col. Paul Weizer, the executive program officer of USSOCOM’s […]
California-headquartered Eightfold AI announced that, in partnership with Carahsoft Technology, it has been awarded an Other Transaction prototype contract by the Defense Innovation Unit. The deal aims to develop and deploy a talent intelligence platform for the Department of Defense, Eightfold AI said Tuesday. Eightfold AI said that its talent intelligence platform will power a […]
Virginia-headquartered CACI International announced that it was awarded a $20.4 million contract to provide technology, research, development and innovation services in support of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s Mission-Integrated Network Control program. Specifically, the deal calls for building and demonstrating software that creates a secure network to provide command and control of heterogeneous networks, […]
Department of Defense officials are calling for stronger digital defenses to ensure that warfighters are well-equipped to meet future demands. Speaking at the AFCEA Small Business Enterprise IT Day event, Kelly Fletcher, the principal deputy at the Pentagon’s Office of the Chief Information Officer, said defense networks, systems and hardware must have enhanced cybersecurity architectures. […]
The chief of the Defense Information Systems Agency has released a list of 14 broad innovation topics that he wants industry and academia to take on. DISA Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, a 2022 Wash100, winner challenged industry and academia to help the agency find ways to accelerate its mission. “Every great invention begins with […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is scheduled to meet with potential collaborators for its new Earth observation enhancement effort. The upcoming series of meetings is in connection with three new broad agency announcements focused on measuring atmospheric winds, hyperspectral microwave remote sensing observations and artificial intelligence-powered digital twin technologies, SpaceNews reported Thursday. In an […]
