The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute has received a $2M contract from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate together with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to form a national network of cybersecurity technical institutes. The CIRI is a DHS Center of Excellence spearheaded by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a public […]
The Army has issued a sources-sought notice announcing its intent to re-compete the five-year, $105.8M Army Resource Cloud contract. According to a report from Bloomberg Government, the proposed contract calls for support services for managing the cloud computing environment of the Program Budget Data Management Division of the Deputy Chief of Staff, Army G-8. The […]
The Department of Defense's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center has announced plans to fast-track its funding and acquisition of commercially available AI technologies for government use. JAIC officials issued a commercial solutions opening to seek information on commercial AI prototypes from several key fields. CSOs are an acquisition method that allows some federal agencies to award […]
Summit2Sea Consulting has announced that it will use its expertise in data and artificial intelligence to prototype the Department of Defense's Humanless Unmatched Transaction solution. Bryan Eckle, a partner at Summit2Sea, explained that data on financial transactions are used to train the solution's machine learning algorithm to provide robot workers with corrective actions. The prototype […]
Texas A&M University has received a potential five-year, $100M contract from the Department of Defense to create a consortium consisting of the defense sector, the academe and government organizations to promote hypersonics technology. The University Consortium for Applied Hypersonics award has one base year with four option years, according to DOD. Michael Kratsios, acting undersecretary […]
L3Harris Technologies has announced that it will help the Department of Defense develop artificial intelligence and machine learning tools for extracting insights from space and airborne data. Under a new multi-million-dollar contract, L3Harris will help the Pentagon reduce the amount of time it takes to gain usable intelligence from the growing amounts of data its […]
The General Services Administration has awarded REI Systems a task order to provide development, operations and maintenance services for the Integrated Award Environment and System for Award Management. Work will be done under GSA's Chief Information Officer Modernization and Enterprise Transformation blanket purchase agreement, which is a five-year information technology initiative designed to support the […]
The Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Perspecta Labs $25M in new work to improve the security of 5G networks. Perspecta's applied research division will support DARPA's Open, Programmable, Secure 5G program. The two awards would have a four-year period of performance if all options are exercised. “While emerging mobile wireless […]
Liteye Systems, Numerica and AEgis Technologies have unveiled the latest counter unmanned aerial system that provides trains drone operators. The three companies developed the Liteye C-UAS simulator, a modeling, simulation and training system integrating what they described as a high-resolution virtual environment with the Liteye anti-UAS defense system command control and user interface. Zac Neumayr, […]
IndraSoft, a cybersecurity consultancy provider, has been awarded a five-year basic ordering agreement to provide the Air Force with DevSecOps services. The company's work will support the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center Cryptologic and Cyber Systems Division's LevelUP Platform One program. “We are thrilled to be a part of the LevelUP Platform One team […]
