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    Northrop’s Triton Unmanned Aircraft Receives IOC Designation From Navy

    The U.S. Navy has granted initial operating capability status to Northrop Grumman's MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft. Northrop has so far delivered five units of the aircraft, which is designed for high-altitude and high-endurance maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, to the service branch. More

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    CBP Announces $100M Recompete Contract for Enterprise Network Architecture Services Support

    The Customs and Border Protection plans to launch a full and open competition for a potential five-year, $100 million recompete contract to provide enterprise network architecture and engineering support services to the CBP Office of Information and Technology. ENAESS will modernize CBP's information technology infrastructure to support mission-critical data communications and applications, implement emerging technologies and support the agency's migration to the cloud. More

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    KBR Granted FedRAMP Priority Status for Cloud-Based Digital Evidence Management Tool; Byron Bright Quoted

    KBR has obtained priority status from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program's Joint Authorization Board to secure approval for its cloud-based digital evidence management platform. The commercial cloud and mission service offering, dubbed KBR Vaault, is designed to support federal agencies in areas such as public safety, mission operations, health and human performance and asset management. More

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    Human Oversight Key to Maximizing AI Potential & Reducing Risk, Experts Say

    Federal organizations have recognized the potential for artificial intelligence to revolutionize the way the government operates, but the expansion of its use has illuminated the need for strong regulations surrounding this new technology. According to experts in the field, who came together for a panel discussion at ExecutiveBiz’s Trusted AI and Autonomy Forum on Tuesday, keeping a human in the loop is critical to harnessing the benefits of AI while ensuring the safety of its users. More

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    NSF, Partners to Fund Semiconductor Research, Talent Development Efforts

    The National Science Foundation and its partners Ericsson, IBM, Intel and Samsung have committed approximately $45.6 million to fund 24 projects aimed at advancing the semiconductor industry through technology innovation and talent development. The investment will be used to help expedite research, accelerate commercialization and create practical training opportunities for the future workforce amid the rising demand for semiconductors in the U.S. More

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    Andrea Joyce Appointed Maxar Financial Planning & Analysis VP

    Andrea Joyce, a 15-year Lockheed Martin veteran, has joined Westminster, Colorado-based satellite imagery provider Maxar Technologies as vice president of financial planning and analysis. Prior to Maxar, Joyce was business operations director for global security at Lockheed. More

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    Forescout to Advance Zero Trust Implementation Under DOD Comply-to-Connect Contract; Barry Mainz Quoted

    Forescout will implement zero trust principles across the Department of Defense Information Network and deliver additional capabilities to improve the security of operational technology networks under the new Comply-to-Connect contract with DOD. “We look forward to introducing cloud-based advanced threat analysis tools into the C2C program's portfolio of capabilities and adding further value on DOD's zero trust journey," said Forescout CEO Barry Mainz. More

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    CRDF Global’s Consortium Facilitates Public-Private Partnership to Boost Ukraine’s Cyber Defense; Tina Dolph Quoted

    CRDF Global and its consortium of industry partners have mobilized support from the private sector to help the Ukrainian government build up its cyber defense and infrastructure in the wake of the Russian invasion. The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative has donated 1,600 cyber defense tools and provided over 800 training courses to help protect Ukraine's critical infrastructure against cyberattacks. More

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    IARPA Moving Forward With Program Seeking to Expedite Attribution of Cyber Attacks

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will host proposers' days on Oct. 5 and 6 for the Securing our Underlying Resources in Cyber Environments program. The SoURCE CODE program seeks technologies that will help forensic experts accelerate the process of attributing a cyber attack to its perpetrators by checking coding styles. More

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    Carahsoft Streamlines Palo Alto Networks’ Product Distribution via AWS Marketplace; Eric Trexler Quoted

    Carahsoft Technology has added Palo Alto Networks to its Distributor Seller of Record program to streamline the procurement process for the latter's cybersecurity offerings available in Amazon Web Services' digital catalog. The network and cloud security product suite of Palo Alto Networks is now available to public sector customers through AWS Marketplace with the company's addition to the DSOR program. More

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    Ball Aerospace, NASA Complete Assembly of Roman Space Telescope’s Instrument

    Ball Aerospace and NASA's team at Goddard Space Flight Center have assembled the primary camera system for the space agency's next-generation Nancy Grace Roman Space telescope. The Wide Field Instrument is constructed to be capable of providing a field of view over 100 times larger than Roman’s Hubble Space telescope predecessor while retaining the same resolution. More