Echodyne has secured a five-year, $20 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to widen deployments of its radar systems. Since the awarding of the contract, Echodyne has delivered 30 EchoGuard Radar Systems to CBP. EchoGuard belongs to the company’s border security radar portfolio and is designed for monitoring ground and air […]
Argonne National Laboratory has been awarded nearly $3 million in Department of Energy funding for two projects aimed at advancing artificial intelligence and machine learning technology. The projects will explore how AI can be used to manage large data sets or create better outcomes where little data is available, Argonne said Monday. One of the […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate announced that two inventors working at its National Urban Security Technology Laboratory were awarded a patent for a new device that makes a distinct and audible alarm when it detects dangerous levels of radioactivity. Electronics engineer Norman Chiu and physicist Paul Goldhagen jointly received U.S. Patent 11,140,476 […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is identifying which critical infrastructure sectors would have the most debilitating impact on the United States if hacked. Rep. John Katko, a top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee, previously proposed legislation that would direct the Department of Homeland Security agency to designate “systematically important critical infrastructure,” CyberScoop […]
The Federal Deposit and Insurance Corporation‘s inspector general said the organization must address gaps in its security and information technology systems to ensure that sensitive financial information is secured. According to an IG report, FDIC has a ranking of maturity level 4 under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act maturity model, an indication that its […]
Savannah River Mission Completion, a joint venture led by BWXT Technical Services Group, has been awarded a potential $21 billion contract to conduct various operations at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina. The SRMC team is made up of Amentum, Fluor Federal Services and small business subcontractors WesWorks and DBD. The single-award master […]
The newly introduced Build Back Better Act in Congress provides $1.7 trillion in funding to support priorities identified by House progressives and conservative Democrats in the Senate. Under the bill, lawmakers earmarked a 10-year, $4.75 billion funding for the Internal Revenue Service’s business systems modernization effort, with the goal of improving tax collection. Part of […]
The Department of Energy has awarded professional services provider Jacobs its 10-year, $8.3 billion Oak Ridge Reservation Cleanup Contract. The Dallas-based company received the contract as a member of United Cleanup Oak Ridge, a joint venture between Jacobs, Honeywell and lead company Amentum. The single-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract allows the DOE, UCOR and project stakeholders to […]
Francisco Salguero has stepped down from his position as chief information officer at the Federal Communications Commission. Salguero will be joining Salesforce as a digital acceleration architect within the software company’s federal business, FedScoop reported Tuesday. “While I am leaving federal service, I will continue to work with the public sector in looking to advance […]
The Department of Justice has awarded technology firm Excella a contract to provide support services for a case management system used for industry operations and criminal enforcement programs. The Spartan case management system is designed to manage and analyze information collected from criminal investigations, licensing, monitoring and enforcement related to the transportation of firearms, explosives, […]
