The federal government must work on information technology, security and workforce transformation to unlock the potential of 5G technology, according to Rob Silverberg, Dell's chief technology officer of digital communities. Silverberg said the government needs to balance the three elements to develop 5G infrastructure capable of virtualization, open-networking and storage, Executive Biz reported. He added […]
The Department of Homeland Security is scrambling to allow its virtual private networks to support more users, said Paul Morris, the Transportation Security Administration's chief information security officer. He said the agency is asking its employees to exercise cyber hygiene by turning off smart devices in their work area, among other measures, Fifth Domain reported. TSA itself […]
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is devising the Unmanned Systems Operations Program, an effort aimed at promoting the safe and efficient use of unmanned systems. Rear Adm. Michael Silah, director of NOAA’s Commissioned Officer Corps and the Office of Marine and Aviation Operations, said the program will allow the agency to transform UxS vehicles […]
The Army has developed new neural network performance metrics to measure the reliability of next-generation artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. The metrics will supposedly help deep neural networks apply safe techniques for command and control systems, precision fire and decision support systems. DNNs can typically only make predictions within their scope of training, becoming […]
The Department of Homeland Security plans to deploy the minimum viable products for agency dashboards, which have been deployed to 59 agencies. Judy Baltensperger, project manager for the dashboard of DHS’ Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program, told Fifth Domain that the agency plans to integrate a number of capabilities, such as risk-scoring, assessment metrics, system […]
Technology firm Octo has scored a $50M contract from the Patent and Trademark Office, which is seeking support on a range of emerging technologies for enhanced mission delivery and business processes. The USPTO awarded the contract through its Intelligent Automation Innovation Support Services blanket purchase agreement. The contractor shall help develop and deploy technologies like […]
Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for acquisition at the Department of Defense, believes that small businesses will benefit from a rule change on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. Speaking on the program Government Matters, Arrington said the current self-attesting rule promotes uneven competition among defense contractors, adding that the CMMC was launched to lower […]
The Air Force plans to increase its use of ethical hackers to bolster its preparedness for wartime attacks on its information technology networks. In its search of "white-hat" hacking services, the Air Force previously awarded cybersecurity firm Dark Wolf a $75M blanket purchase agreement for internal network penetration testing, FedScoop reported. In March 2019, the Air […]
Tom Keane, vice president of Microsoft’s Azure Global, has confirmed that the company’s Azure Government Secret offering has received approval to host “secret” government data. Keane specified in a blog post that Azure Government Secret secured the provisional authority at the Department of Defense’s Impact Level 6, along with other standards compliant with intelligence community […]
The Department of Veterans Affairs is poised to expand its artificial intelligence program and develop novel use cases for the technology. Speaking at AFCEA’s Automation Transformation conference, VA Director of AI Gil Alterovitz said it is a challenge for the department to make its data sets ready for use in AI. According to Alterovitz, AI can […]
