The Federal Aviation Administration is evaluating Loft Dynamics’ Airbus H125 and Robinson R22 virtual reality flight simulators for training pilots. The European Union Aviation Safety Agency-approved simulators were installed at the FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center, supporting the U.S. civil aviation and commercial space transportation regulator’s Next Generation Air Transportation System program, which aims […]
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded Noblis a potential three-year, $82 million task order to provide research and development support to the Science and Technology Directorate. Under the Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance III task order, Noblis will provide strategic planning, program support and operational management to help S&T deliver technologies to stakeholders and […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected 40 post-quantum cryptography algorithms as candidates for the PQC standardization catalog, which is designed to help U.S. networks prepare for quantum computing. The algorithms were selected out of 50 submissions received in September as part of NIST’s efforts to boost quantum computing capabilities. According to the […]
The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee is asking the Department of Veterans Affairs to lay out a specific deployment schedule for new software for the digital GI Bill platform. The VA was supposed to release the education benefits delivery platform‘s enrollment manager system this January but the rollout was pushed back to March, delaying the next […]
The Federal Communications Commission and the National Science Foundation recently convened stakeholders from different sectors to talk about the potential benefits and drawbacks of artificial intelligence for networks and users. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel explained during the event that communications capabilities could see exponential growth if AI is used to improve their efficiency and effectiveness. […]
Ashley Weston, Adobe product senior specialist and technical lead at Carahsoft, said government agencies have started adopting digital signature technology, which reduces the time spent on transactions, speeds up document delivery and eliminates the need to meet in person to sign documents. The Internal Revenue Service has already begun using digital signatures to improve taxpayers’ […]
The Federal Trade Commission has launched an investigation into a potential consumer protection laws violation of OpenAI in connection with its ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool, a large language model trained to produce answers to queries and generate personalized content. In a demand letter, the regulatory agency ordered the company to contact FTC counsel to schedule […]
The Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration has awarded Fairfax, Virginia-based VMD Corp. a five-year, $29 million contract for governance and oversight support services. VMD Corp. will provide IT and operation technology cyber assessments, enterprise project management office expertise, governance, enterprise policy advisory and implementation support across the nuclear security enterprise. Deepti Malhotra, CEO […]
House and Senate lawmakers seek to impose new cyber incident reporting rules as part of a proposed amendment to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act. If passed, the new version of FISMA would require all federal agencies to alert Congress and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency when major attacks occur. The secretary of defense […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has teamed up with the University of Rochester and Google to explore the potential of artificial intelligence to identify irregular heart rhythms in firefighters. Electrocardiogram data from over 100 firefighters generated by the university and machine learning were used to train an AI model called Heart Health Monitoring […]
