NASA, SpaceX Reschedule Demo-2 Crewed Mission Launch to Saturday
NASA and SpaceX have pushed back to Saturday, May 30, the launch of the manned Demo-2 test flight mission due to unfavorable weather conditions.
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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DARPA Picks Two Research Teams for ‘Automatic Implementation of Secure Silicon’ Program
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected two research teams to develop technologies for a program that seeks to automate the process of integrating scalable defense mechanisms into integrated circuit chip designs and help improve the security of the semiconductor supply chain.
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Northrop’s Kathy Warden: Air Force’s Urgency to Replace ICBM Keeps GBSD Program on Pace
Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said she believes future budget pressures as a result of the coronavirus pandemic will not have an impact on the schedule of the U.S. Air Force’s $85B Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile program, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.
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Defense Contractors Use Virtual Means to Support Internship Programs
Aerospace and defense contractors have come up with ways to enable their interns to work virtually as they continue their efforts to build up their workforce amid the coronavirus pandemic, Government Executive reported Tuesday.
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Army, SpaceX Sign Starlink Broadband Testing Agreement
SpaceX and the U.S. Army have signed a three-year agreement to test the capability of Starlink broadband in transmitting data across military networks, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
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in Contract Awards, NewsHPI Federal Taps Perspecta to Help With NGEN-R End-User Hardware Contract; Mac Curtis Quoted
HP’s government arm has awarded Perspecta a contract worth more than $120M to help with the end-user hardware portion of the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract, Inside Defense reported Friday.
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in Executive Moves, NewsJoyce Hunter Named ICIT Executive Director; Parham Eftekhari Appointed Board Chairman
Joyce Hunter, a veteran information technology leader, has been named executive director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a nonprofit cybersecurity think tank. Parham Eftekhari, ICIT founder and most recently executive director, has transitioned to the role of chairman of the board of directors.
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AWS’ Dave Levy on Early Learnings From COVID-19 HPC Consortium
Dave Levy, vice president of federal business at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said there are three early lessons from the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium and one is the capability of new technology platforms to help researchers expedite their work. "Tools including deep learning and artificial intelligence are reducing time to insight for researchers around the world," Levy wrote in a blog post published Thursday.
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Palantir to Back VA’s COVID-19 Response Under Data Analysis Contract
Palantir has received a potential $5M contract to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with its Gotham software to help track and analyze data related to coronavirus outbreak areas and generate insights from hospital inventory, social services data and supply chain capacity to facilitate the decision-making process, FedScoop reported Tuesday.
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NIST Wants Orgs to Contribute Products to Support 5G Cybersecurity Demo Project
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking organizations to share their products and technical expertise in support of a project that seeks to demonstrate how components of the 5G network architecture can offer security capabilities to meet industry’s compliance requirements and reduce identified risks.