The Navy has migrated its financial system of records from an on-site system to Amazon Web Services' GovCloud for 70K customers worldwide. The migration of the enterprise resource planning system included dozens of terabytes of data across multiple ledger systems and took 10 months, according to Edward Quick, program manager for the Navy Enterprise Business […]
Everbridge, a cloud and software-as-a-service provider dedicated to critical event management and public warning, has secured an agency authorization renewal from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The company’s suite of platform and products was deemed compliant with the 325 controls in the FedRAMP Moderate baseline and was cleared for the rigorous security and […]
Army researchers are integrating artificial intelligence capabilities into combat vehicles to help soldiers traverse unfamiliar or dangerous terrain and help them avoid distractions. The Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory highlighted one of its major flagship projects, the AI for Maneuver and Mobility essential research program, the research division said. "We want these […]
The Senate's latest version of the Fiscal Year 2021 defense budget proposes an additional $120M in research funding for the Department of Defense’s Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor program. Despite the absence of a request for such an increase, some senators are pushing for bigger appropriations for the space-based anti-hypersonic weapons program, citing China’s […]
Lawmakers have introduced legislation that would establish a national cyber director who would serve as the president's principal cybersecurity adviser and lead the government's cybersecurity efforts. Sen. Jim Langevin, one of the bill's proponents and the commissioner of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, said the government can only implement a "whole-of-nation" cyber strategy by establishing a […]
The Cyber Command, in partnership with Five Eyes, has conducted a defensive cyber training program that involved 500 participants from several nations. During the program, dubbed Cyber Flag 20-2, a team defended information technology and operational security networks against a live attack by an opposing team. The training began June 15 and ended June 26. […]
NTT DATA Services Federal Government has secured a $17.5M task order under the General Services Administration Alliant 2 contract to support the Office of the Inspector General within the Department of Homeland Security. Under the terms of the task, NTT DATA will support the OIG’s help desk operations to enhance and maintain existing enterprise systems […]
The General Services Administration has raised the ceiling price of its 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III contract vehicle to $50B. STARS III, a government-wide acquisition contract that originally had a $15B spending ceiling, was drafted in August 2019 to serve as an information technology contract vehicle for economically disadvantaged small businesses, Bloomberg […]
Legislators have introduced a bipartisan bill designed to strengthen the Department of Defense's 5G technology systems and infrastructure department-wide. The DoD 5G Act would require the secretary of defense to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in the military's telecommunications infrastructure, C4ISRNET reported. "As the U.S. continues to invest in disruptive new technologies, such as 5G, it […]
Lawmakers have introduced legislation that would direct the Department of Defense to issue grants for small manufacturers to help them comply with cybersecurity guidelines. The bipartisan Small Manufacturer Cybersecurity Enhancement Act authorizes the secretary of defense to provide grants to Manufacturing Extension Partnership Centers or cybersecurity services to small defense manufacturers, FedScoop reported. "Cyber vulnerabilities […]
