Stephanie Turner, an inclusion and diversity champion for over 25 years, has been named vice president of diversity and chief sustainability officer at Mitre. She will oversee Mitre’s inclusion, diversity and social innovation efforts and sustainability capabilities across environmental, social and governance areas in this expanded role, the nonprofit corporation said Thursday. Julie Bowen, senior […] More

A Motorola Solutions-established cyberthreat information sharing and analysis organization has taken part in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative. The company said Wednesday Public Safety Threat Alliance joining JCDC advances its commitment to the global public safety community. PSTA, which was launched by Motorola in 2022, includes almost 150 member organizations […] More

Tidelift, which provides platforms meant to improve the resilience of open source software supply chain, expanded its Series C financing to $33.5 million after securing additional investments from AEI HorizonX, a venture capital group formed by AE Industrial Partners and Boeing, and Cisco Investments. Tidelift said it will use the additional funding to expand its […] More

The U.S. Army has granted AttackIQ a three-year, authority to operate accreditation for a threat emulation platform after the company completed a risk-based evaluation process. AttackIQ aims to help the military branch manage its critical asset defense posture with the Security Optimization Platform under the “Assess Only” ATO designation, the company said Wednesday. The certification gives Army […] More

Catalyst Accelerator hosted a two-week event that sought to help a cohort of businesses connect with subject matter experts on government contracting. Six companies that have not yet worked with any public sector organization took part in the Government Business Boot Camp, which featured panel discussions and question-and-answer sessions, Catalyst Accelerator said Monday. Executives at […] More

The Air Force Research Laboratory has indicated its intent to solicit proposals for a potential $300 million program that will involve research, development and transition of cross-domain electronic warfare systems. A broad agency announcement posted Friday on SAM.gov lists multiple technical areas under the Kaiju project, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, data collection, and […] More

How does contract staffing work? Contract staffing is an employment option in which a person is recruited to fulfill a portion of a project, contract, or task. Temporary staffing is a hiring arrangement on project-based or fixed-term rather than a permanent one. In some scenarios, contract staffing is managed by a third-party staffing agency.   […] More

An analysis by blockchain analytics company Chainalysis shows that scammers took in more than $7.7 billion worth of cryptocurrency from victims in 2021, reflecting an increase of 81 percent from the previous year. A new type of scam in the decentralized finance ecosystem called “rug pulls” accounted for 37 percent of the total cryptocurrency scam […] More

Curtiss-Wright will take part in a multidisciplinary team working on the Secure Automation for Advanced Reactor Innovation initiative aimed at developing digital twin technologies to be installed in nuclear power plants. The University of Michigan-led Project SAFARI is one of the nine programs under the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s Generating Electricity Managed by Intelligent Nuclear […] More

Maxar Technologies has provided the Australian defense department with 3D data suite and satellite imagery meant to inform military decision-making process and enhance situational awareness in support of national defense and intelligence missions. The company said Thursday its 3D Surface Model for the Australian agency is designed to show terrain and surface features and textures […] More

Stratos Davlos, former executive at IBM‘s Watson business, will lead a software team at Astra as part of his appointment as the space services provider’s senior vice president of software. The 20-year veteran in artificial intelligence and machine learning will oversee the intelligent operating system that supports Astra’s space platform and operations, the California-based company […] More

Motorola Solutions has expanded its portfolio of cybersecurity services in a bid to protect companies and public safety organizations amid the increasing cyber threats to information networks, employees and assets.

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