The persistent threat of cyber attacks has been a top concern for the Department of Defense in recent years. Now, as the Pentagon moves forward with a zero trust approach to cybersecurity, DOD leaders are paying close attention to implementing security not just at the enterprise level, but also at the tactical edge, where threats...
By Mick Fox, Chief Operating Officer, TechnoMile If you’ve traveled by plane, you’ve perhaps paused to appreciate the role of our nation’s air traffic controllers. They are a group of dedicated individuals responsible for directing tens of thousands of aircraft safely through their assigned flight paths each day. If you’re an aviator — eit...
The Government Accountability Office has dismissed a protest filed by Oshkosh’s (NYSE: OSK) defense arm to challenge the U.S. Army’s contract award decision over the follow-on Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, Defense News reported Monday. In February, AM General, a portfolio company of private equity firm KPS Capital Partners, won a pot...
It’s a cliché at this point to say the government moves slowly in terms of technology modernization and procurement of new tools and services. However, sometimes societal occurrences and world events come knocking and shake bureaucracy out of its glacial processes, forcing the federal sector to act sooner and faster. The combined effects of major...
The General Services Administration has issued an interim security policy directing employees and contractors to limit the use of generative artificial intelligence systems that work with large language models from the GSA network and equipment owned by the government. GSA cited risks that LLMs, which train on public data sources and inputted data, ...
Quantum computing is a rapidly-growing technology that, when fully developed, will far surpass the capabilities of classical computers. But although these capabilities are still years out from being realized, public and private sector leaders are already anticipating the threats that will emerge from quantum computing, and they’re working to stay ...
Leaders at the U.S. Department of Defense have been looking for a way to centralize their Joint All Domain Command and Control endeavor. Under this ideal state, communications and data sharing would be interlocked in a seamless mesh network that includes all six military branches and is functional at the edge: wherever a warfighter is active....
BrainGu has received a five-year, $125 million contract to support a cloud-based command and control environment for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Battle Management System. The Small Business Innovation Research Phase III award will include the provision of DevSecOps as a service to the Department of Defense Platform One at multiple secur...
Science Applications International Corp. (NYSE: SAIC) will provide a cloud-based application factory to the Space Development Agency under a $64 million contract. The factory is intended to host battle management command, control and communications software apps that will support SDA’s low-Earth orbit satellite constellation, the company said ...
Roger Alan Nichols, formerly a client executive director at AT&T (NYSE: T), has joined Columbia, Maryland-based information technology company Freedom Consulting Group as chief growth officer. He will report directly to FCG CEO Vernon Saunders and oversee corporate strategy and growth initiatives, FCG said Wednesday. “The ability to execute ou...
