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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.
Leidos will operate, maintain and manage the U.S. Navy’s Overlord and other medium unmanned surface vessels under a potential three-year, $95 million task order. The single-award task order awarded by Naval Sea Systems Command has a one-year base term and two option years, the company said Thursday. Gerry Fasano, president of defense group at Leidos, […] More
The Air Force Research Laboratory has started soliciting information on technical approaches and concepts to evaluate, adapt and redeploy artificial intelligence models in the battlespace during missions. AFRL is interested in potential use cases of AI models within Air Force systems that would catalyze the need for the battle management of AI process, according to […] More
Nokia has partnered with Fabrinet to produce optical modules for fiber broadband networks at the latter’s Santa Clara, California-based facility in support of the Department of Commerce’s Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program. BEAD is administered by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and seeks to provide $42.45 billion in funding to broaden high-speed internet […] More
Margie Graves, senior fellow at the IBM Center for The Business of Government, said the technology base of the National Finance Center within the U.S. Department of Agriculture requires an immediate “stabilization” and long-term modernization, Federal News Network reported Monday. The National Academy of Public Administration issued a report in July recommending that NFC implement […] More
SandboxAQ has partnered with over 30 corporations, major universities and other educational institutions to build up a pool of tech talent and expand training in the field of artificial intelligence and quantum technologies. The company said Tuesday it has collaborated with Vanguard, EY and Deloitte, among other firms, to train and upskill employees in quantum […] More
Noel Hara, vice president and chief technology officer for the public sector at NTT DATA Services, said government agencies looking to buy technologies should assemble a tech procurement team that includes information technology services experts, enterprise architecture staff and IT protection professionals, according to an article published Monday on American City and Country. “Cybersecurity can […] More
A Leidos study has found that mental health stigma, misunderstanding and misinformation continue to exist in the security clearance process and that there is a significant degree of mistrust in how mental health disclosures are assessed in the process. “The security clearance process is essential to protecting our national security, but it should not discourage […] More
IBM’s research arm has developed an analog artificial intelligence-based chip designed to perform deep neural network inference tasks. The analog AI chip comes with 64 analog in-memory compute cores each containing 256-by-256 crossbar array of synaptic unit cells and digital processing units that could carry out scaling functions and nonlinear neuronal activation operations, IBM Research […] More
Kaus Phaltankar, co-founder and CEO of Caveonix, said the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Revision 5 baseline adds new controls, including a family of controls related to supply chain risk management. Phaltankar said in a Help Net Security video published Thursday that when it comes to changes to control parameters under the new baseline, […] More
A report by the Cyber Safety Review Board outlines findings on the activities associated with an extortion-focused threat actor group called Lapsus$ and offers 10 recommendations for government and industry stakeholders to protect their infrastructure from cyberthreats posed by Lapsus$ and related groups. The CSRB report found that Lapsus$ performed attacks against dozens of government […] More
The Department of Defense has selected Lockheed Martin, Intel, Qorvo and Ayar Labs for a prototype project that seeks to further develop optical input/output technologies to enable high-speed data communications. The Co-Packaged Analog-Drive High-Bandwidth Optical Input/Output or KANAGAWA prototype project was awarded through the Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems other transaction authority. […] More
Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on a two-year competition to advance the development of artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity systems that could be used to detect and address software vulnerabilities and protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. The AI companies will share their technologies and expertise with DARPA’s AI […] More
