Jane Edwards

Red Hat has partnered with stackArmor to use the latter’s offering to speed up the process of achieving authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud service on Amazon Web Services. “We are pleased to collaborate with stackArmor to help us accelerate the FedRAMP ATO for Red Hat OpenShift […] More

A survey of federal chief information officers and information technology leaders conducted by the Professional Services Council and Maximus has found that many agencies intend to shift from manual operations to business processes driven by automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The 2021 Federal CIO Survey report showed that agency officials highlighted the need for […] More

The Department of Commerce is soliciting information to inform the planning and development of potential programs meant to strengthen the U.S. semiconductor industry. The agency wants feedback on a potential financial assistance program that would offer funding to private companies or public-private consortia via a competitive process as part of efforts to incentivize the expansion, […] More

The U.S. Navy transitioned the Northrop Grumman-built MQ-8C Fire Scout ship-based unmanned helicopter to the operational deployment phase in mid-December. MQ-8C Fire Scout provided the service with improved intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and targeting capabilities when fielded with the Navy’s Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 22, Detachment 5 aboard the USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) Freedom-class littoral combat ship, […] More

The General Services Administration will start piloting in the next few weeks a new process to protect its supply chain from counterfeit or fraudulent products. GSA said Wednesday it will use the Robomod process and data from the Verified Products Portal to identify unauthorized products on Multiple Award Schedule contracts and GSA Advantage!  The agency […] More

Salman Banaei, head of public policy in North America for crypto data firm Chainalysis, and other experts shared their thoughts on a Federal Reserve discussion paper that explored the potential benefits, risks and policy considerations for a U.S. central bank digital currency, NextAdvisor reported Sunday. Banaei said he was surprised by how the Fed took […] More

Northrop Grumman and Raytheon Technologies demonstrated their systems that can enable a single user to control a swarm of more than 100 drones in an urban setting as part of an experiment held in November at Fort Campbell in Kentucky, C4ISRNET reported Friday. The companies participated in the experiment under two contracts the Defense Advanced […] More

Iridium Communications has supported the U.S. Army Reserve’s Monuments Officers program in its effort to identify, protect and preserve cultural heritage sites in Honduras by providing satellite connectivity and push-to-talk technology. A team of Monument Officer archaeologists deployed in Honduras used Iridium PTT handsets to communicate with the Virginia Museum of Natural History‘s Cultural Heritage […] More

Eclipse Global Connectivity, ST Engineering iDirect and Smiths Interconnect have collaborated to provide government and military aircraft with satellite communications capability to support airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. The Ka-band satcom capability combines iDirect’s Evolution Defense platform and 9800 AE+ airborne modem with Smiths Interconnect’s KaStream 5000 MK II parabolic antenna and can support […] More