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 National Institutes of Health has awarded DLH Holdings a potential five-and-a-half-year, $138 million contract to provide IT services to the National Cancer Institute. IT services under the contract include hardware configuration, software management, ServiceNow support, network connectivity, cybersecurity, technology refresh and desktop platform engineering. Zach Parker, president and CEO of DLH, said the contract […]
Airship AI Holdings said an agency within the Department of Justice has awarded the company a contract to provide an artificial intelligence-enabled video and sensor data management platform. The agency will deploy the Acropolis Enterprise Sensor Management platform in a cloud environment that complies with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s security requirements. Acropolis […]
Brian Scott, deputy assistant national cyber director for cyber policy and programs at the Office of the National Cyber Director, said that the White House will release an update to the national cybersecurity strategy implementation plan before the end of summer. Speaking at a security conference in Miami, Florida, Scott said the update will focus […]
The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Procurement Operations has issued a sources sought notice to assess contractors’ capabilities to support the DHS Office of Chief Information Officer in implementing the new DHS Architecture, Development, and Platform Technical Services 2.0 program. The services and products defined in the sources sought include program and project management, […]
RunZero will participate in the second cohort of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Clean Energy Cybersecurity Accelerator. CECA is designed to identify disruptive solutions that can address security gaps in the electrical grid and speed up the testing and evaluation of the technologies to reduce time to market. RunZero offers a platform comprising cyber asset […]
Sens. Mark R. Warner, D-Va., and Marco Rubio, R-Fla., are asking the Department of Commerce to use its authority to protect U.S.-made technological innovations from the Chinese government’s poaching efforts. In a letter sent to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, the lawmakers expressed their concern about the government’s lack of action on preventing adversaries from gaining […]
NASA researchers are investigating retropropulsion, the leading deceleration technology option for a safe human landing on Mars. Retropropulsion would eliminate the use of parachutes and instead fire rocket motors installed in a spacecraft’s heat shield to decelerate, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory said. Supercomputers running NASA’s suite of computational fluid dynamics simulation and design tools […]
Sens. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., have introduced the Promoting United States Leadership in Standards Act of 2024, a bill seeking to ensure U.S. leadership in developing international rules and regulations for artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum computing and other emerging technologies. Focused on maintaining U.S. global competitiveness, the proposed legislation mandates the National […]
The Department of Commerce is seeking public feedback on regulating the information and communications technology and services supply chain for connected vehicles. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo said the department is issuing an advance notice of proposed rulemaking to take a deeper look into the national security risks associated with connected vehicles, including investigating the extent […]
