Elder Granger Named to Cerner Board; Brent Shafer Quoted
Elder Granger, a retired U.S. Army major general, has joined Cerner as a member of the company’s board of directors.Â
Jane Edwards
is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.
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Lt. Gen. John Thompson: Space Force Eyes Prototyping Consortium Mgmt Contract Award by Year’s End
Lt. Gen. John Thompson, commander of the Space and Missile Systems Center, said the U.S. Space Force expects to award by the end of 2020 a contract for the management of the Space Enterprise Consortium, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.
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Army Plans to Use Machine Learning to Help Identify ‘Emerging Tech Leaders’
The U.S. Army plans to release later this month an opportunity for small businesses to propose platforms that could help identify, develop and deploy “emerging technology leaders" across the service using machine learning and data science, Nextgov reported Tuesday.
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NASA Uses HPE-Built Supercomputer to Advance Research for Artemis Lunar Mission
NASA has used the Hewlett Packard Enterprise-built Aitken supercomputer to carry out simulations on launch environment and booster separation event at Kennedy Space Center in Florida in preparation for the Artemis manned mission to the moon by 2024.Â
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Aerospace Corp. Study: National Security Agencies Should Consider Buying Commercial Space Services
A new study by the Aerospace Corp. says the increasing number of satellite-based services and other space capabilities offered by companies presents opportunities for national security agencies to acquire those services, SpaceNews reported Monday.
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COVID-19 HPC Consortium to Identify Near-Term Therapies for Patients Under Phase 2
The COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium has entered into the second phase of operation to focus on research projects that seek to identify near-term treatments to help improve patient outcomes within the next six months.
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in Contract Awards, NewsEPA Picks Battelle, ERG, RTI International for STREAMS IV Tech Research, Dev’t Support IDIQ
The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Battelle, Eastern Research Group and RTI International spots on the fourth iteration of the potential five-year, $50M Scientific, Technical, Research, Engineering and Modeling Support contract.
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Aireon Teams Up With FAA to Explore Uses of Space-Based ADS-B Air Traffic Surveillance Data; Don Thoma Quoted
Aireon has partnered with the Federal Aviation Administration to allow FAA to access and develop use cases for the company’s space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast data in air traffic management.
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Air Force Seeks Info on Wearable Devices for Early COVID-19 Detection
The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX unit has issued a request for information on commercial wearable technologies that could help detect COVID-19 infections early and send alerts to users by providing insight into heart rate fluctuations, oxygen levels and other biometric data.
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Deloitte, Cisco Help Agencies Automate Call Center Ops; Marc Mancher, Omar Tawakol Quoted
Deloitte and Cisco have offered next-generation contact center technologies to help agencies address the surge in demand for government services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Rethinking the customer experience and integrating automation and virtual assistants should be part of the long-term solution for every government," said Marc Mancher, principal at Deloitte Consulting.
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Tableau’s Steven Spano: Public Sector Customers Want Freedom, Various Options in Data Analysis
Steven Spano, regional vice president for the public sector business at Tableau, told ZDNet in an interview published Sunday that when it comes to data analysis, public sector customers want a variety of options and the freedom to explore and interact with data.Â
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Zscaler Report Finds 260% Rise in Attacks via Encrypted Channels; Deepen Desai Quoted
A new report from Zscaler has found a 260 percent increase in encryption-based threats during the first nine months of 2020. Zscaler’s threat research team analyzed 6.6B encrypted threats delivered through Secure Sockets Layer channels between January and September and found that health care was the most targeted industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by finance and insurance, manufacturing, government and services sectors.