The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will hold a conference on July 26 to provide information on a new agency program that aims to help developers and architects use cryptographic techniques to build distributed applications. IARPA said the conference will take place in Washington and will field inquiries from potential vendors on the Homomorphic Encryption Computing […] More

The Energy Department will award 263 small business research and development grants worth a total of $116 million for Phase I and II R&D projects that will support the agency’s missions. DOE said Tuesday that it will award 174 Phase I grants worth up to $150,000 each to help small business conduct research on the technical […] More

Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, highlighted the company’s cybersecurity efforts during his presentation at the National Defense Industrial Association’s 9th Defense Industrial Discussions event held last month. ACT I said Niggel offered insights into cyber-related challenges facing the Defense Department and cyber protection initiatives such as the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriots. The CyberPatriots program aims to educate middle […] More

The State Department has begun to search for potential sources of services for a proposed platform and toolkit designed to support the deployment of innovative tools and practices across the agency. A FedBizOpps notice posted May 26 says the department’s office of global partnerships wants data on potential vendors that can provide services related to hackathons, competitions, crowdsourcing, design […] More

Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, delivered the leadoff remarks in a cybersecurity panel discussion that was part of the 28th U.S.-Japan Defense Technology Forum at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His speech at the event covered security cooperation efforts between the U.S. and Japan, preparation strategies for potential security threats and security requirements in the […] More

The Department of Veterans Affairs and Optum have selected three finalists from the “Demo Day” competition of the 2nd annual Brain Trust: Pathways to InnoVAtion to pilot medical technologies that can help clinicians to prevent, diagnose or treat veterans who have experienced traumatic brain injuries. Optum said Friday The Daptly Display, Save a Warrior and King-Devick Technologies were selected out of 15 […] More

Leonardo has agreed to collaborate with the U.K. air force’s rapid capability office to accelerate the delivery of radio frequency countermeasure systems and other technology platforms to warfighters. Leonardo and the Royal Air Force aim to develop a third-generation expandable active decoy platform and bring it to operational use through the RCO, the company said in […] More

NASA has received and begun to review 12 proposals for a future unmanned solar system mission that could be launched in the mid-2020s. The space agency said Friday the proposals submitted under the New Frontiers program will undergo scientific and technical review in the next seven months. NASA plans to choose one or more concepts for Phase A study then […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has issued a request for information on the availability of commercial ground infrastructure and related support services for satellite and non-satellite wideband communications systems. DISA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Monday that Congress asked the Defense Department to perform an “analysis of alternatives” to identify a potential successor to DoD’s Wideband Global Satellite Communication system […] More

Thomas Strickland Jr. has joined Advanced Concepts and Technologies International as director of information technology to oversee and guide corporate information management operations at the company’s Virginia headquarters. Strickland has more than 25 years of IT development, operations and management experience and will lead ACT I’s efforts to design and implement large-scale systems, according to a company statement. He will […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun to solicit proposals from industry for a program that aims to identify new approaches to store and process information with molecules. DARPA said Friday in a FedBizOpps notice it seeks methods to represent information and run computational operations in molecular form under the agency’s Molecular Informatics program. Selected proposers will work to formulate scalable […] More

Tim Rudolph, senior technical adviser on integrated information capabilities at the U.S. Air Force, is set to join information technology company Evolver as vice president and cybersecurity technology lead. Evolver said March 8 that Rudolph will lead the company’s Boston office, oversee security concepts for the internet of things and provide strategic direction and integration across various cyber offerings in […] More