Mitre and The Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies have released a joint report highlighting the need to modernize the U.S. military’s aging nuclear triad to address emerging threats, particularly from Russia and China.

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Several industry experts have cited technology platforms and trends they expect to play a role in the federal government in 2019, Federal News Network reported Monday. Dave McClure, director of CIO advisory at Accenture Federal Services, said he expects a shift towards the adoption of hybrid cloud architectures and proactive cybersecurity measures and that agencies will improve their contact center strategies driven by artificial intelligence and increasing citizen expectations.
 

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Shamlan Siddiqi, chief technology officer of NTT DATA‘s public sector business, will take part in a panel discussion on Nov. 13 at the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Capital Cybersecurity Summit in Tysons Corner, Va. NVTC said Wednesday panelists and keynote speakers at its third annual event will offer their perspectives on cyber-related emerging technology, digital services and […] More

Heidi Magnelia, a finance veteran of multiple government contracting firms, has joined Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute as chief financial officer. She succeeds Peter Menniti and oversees the institute’s financial, business and central administrative functions in her new role, SEI said Tuesday. Magnelia gained more than three decades of financial management experience from her career […] More

Thomson Reuters will hold its third annual Government Conference on June 5 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. Derek Benner, acting executive associate director for homeland security investigations at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will serve as a keynote speaker at the event, which will focus on trade-based money laundering and supply […] More

The U.S. Navy has awarded Endgame a contract to provide an endpoint protection platform for the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet to protect the service branch’s critical infrastructure from cyber threats. The company said Thursday FCC/C10F will implement the company’s platform to safeguard mechanical, electrical, navigation and weapons systems, hull assets, control units and more than 500,000 […] More

LaVerne Council, a more than 30-year public and private sector veteran, has been appointed national managing principal for enterprise digital strategy and innovation at Grant Thornton. Grant Thornton said Thursday Council will oversee enterprise digital and technological strategies and products designed to help chief information officers address information technology challenges within their organizations. She will report to Srikant Sastry, […] More

NASA and Harris have conducted thermal vacuum tests on the future James Webb Space Telescope to evaluate the system’s capacity to operate within the space environment. Harris said Monday the telescope is designed to function as a space observatory over the next decade and conduct studies on star, planet and galaxy formations. The telescope will be shipped to […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded research contracts to select industry partners as part of a program to develop continuously sensing, passive and unobtrusive methods to evaluate an individual’s cognitive, physiological and psychological aspects. Lockheed Martin, the University of Memphis, the University of Southern California and the University of Notre Dame would each […] More

Crunchy Data has unveiled an open source project with the goal to help agencies automate compliance with the Defense Department‘s security standards dubbed Security Technical Implementation Guide. The company said Tuesday it developed the PostgreSQL STIG Automation project to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s efforts to accelerate the authority-to-operate certification process for cloud platforms. The Defense Information Systems Agency […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded research contracts under the Hybrid Forecasting Competition program that aims to enhance the accuracy of geopolitical event prediction methods. IARPA selected HRL Laboratories, Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary and the University of Southern California to conduct research on hybrid forecasting systems under the HFC program, the Office of the Director of […] More

The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has issued a broad agency announcement to solicit science and technology ideas to address “urgent” problems with very low frequency and low frequency communications platforms. A BAA document published Monday on FedBizOpps says the U.S. Air Force aims to identify and assess potential advancements in key focus areas that include […] More