Eight teams have been selected by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to participate in a virtual competition that seeks to demonstrate the use of artificial intelligence algorithms in simulated aerial combat....
The U.S. Air Force has awarded seven companies positions on a potential five-year, $6.4B contract to help the Combat Air Force organization address close air support and adversary air threats....
DLT Solutions and CrowdStrike have created an online forum aimed at helping public sector organizations manage cybersecurity posture through insights and tools from industry....
Brandon Shopp, vice president of product strategy for security at SolarWinds (NYSE: SWI), has said agencies should look at user education and cross-team collaboration as key elements of their strategies to protect networks from cyber attacks amid the increasing adoption of mobile devices and cloud platforms....
Bob Fortna, president of Fortinet’s (Nasdaq: FTNT) federal business, wrote in a Nextgov article published Friday that federal agencies should consider three cybersecurity threat trends and one is the tendency of threats to share public infrastructure....
Jim McAleese, founder of McAleese & Associates and a 2019 Wash100 awardee, reported on the multidomain operations concept driving capability tradeoffs worth up to $5B per year in the U.S. Air Force's program objective memorandum for fiscal 2021 through fiscal 2025....
Anne Neuberger, who directs the National Security Agency’s (NSA) new Cybersecurity Directorate, revealed that the NSA will launch a directorate in October to focus on ransomware attacks that could make our upcoming elections vulnerable during Billington CyberSecurity’s 10th Annual Summit last week. Neuberger also discussed NSA&...
CACI International (NYSE: CACI) will help the U.S. Army reverse-engineer improvised explosive devices and unmanned aerial systems under a potential $443M task order, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday....
Collins Aerospace, a business unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX), has secured a potential $40.2M indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to sustain training devices for the U.S. Air Force's E-8 Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft....
The National Security Agency will launch in October a new directorate that will oversee efforts to prevent and counter cyber threats to the defense industrial base and national security systems....
