The Food and Drug Administration has combined its information technology, data management and cybersecurity portfolios under the newly launched Office of Digital Transformation. Vid Desai, who previously served as chief technology officer and acting chief information officer of the FDA, was appointed CIO to lead the new division. In a LinkedIn post, Desai said that […]
Attivo Networks’ ThreatDefend Platform has been included in the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Approved Products List of the Department of Homeland Security. Developed in 2012, the CDM program aims to provide risk-based, consistent and cost-effective cybersecurity solutions to protect all federal civilian networks. CDM tools and services help agencies reduce their threat surface, increase visibility […]
Global Systems Technologies, a security engineering company, has secured a $300 million multiple-award blanket purchase agreement to provide test and evaluation services to the Department of Homeland Security. The company said it will serve as an independent test agent for the department’s major acquisition programs. The program portfolio covers security, detection, communications and other systems […]
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate is seeking solutions for the 2022 First Responder Electronic Jamming Exercise. The event will be held next year at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico from April 25 to 29. Industry, academia and federal organizations with anti-jamming technologies ready for testing and evaluation are invited […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs is developing augmented reality technology that will allow physicians “X-ray vision” during operations. Thomas Osborne, director of VA’s National Center for Collaborative Healthcare Innovation, said the goal is to help doctors perform safer procedures by using AR headsets to superimpose medical imaging on patients, FedScoop reported Thursday. He said doctors […]
Cobalt Solutions has received a $750,000 Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract from the Department of Homeland Security for the development of a system capable of detecting and tracking small unmanned aerial vehicles in urban canyon environments. The company’s Urban Canyon Detection Tracking and Identification of Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles solution is expected to […]
The Internal Revenue Service and the Office of Management and Budget have selected DRT Strategies to support the government’s Frictionless Acquisition effort. DRT Strategies was named the final winner of the Labor/Wage Data Mashing contract, which has three phases. The winning solution, dubbed DRT FairPrice+, was designed to provide acquisition professionals in the government with […]
Sandia National Laboratories, together with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratories, has come up with a new design for radiation portal monitors in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s initiative to replace aging radiation detection systems at ports across the country. The plan is to retire over 1,400 monitors deployed at land crossings, rail crossings, […]
A centralized resource for COVID-19 data initiated by the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences has played a key role in advancing research to combat the ongoing global pandemic. The National COVID Cohort Collaborative Data Enclave consolidates patient electronic health records and other clinical information related to COVID-19 from various institutions, […]
The Department of Energy is providing a total of $16 million for five research projects aimed at developing artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms that will enable scientific insights and discoveries using data produced by computation simulations, experiments and observations. The projects will produce capabilities for a broad range of scientific needs, including forecasts for […]
