John Kahan, vice president and chief data analytics officer at Microsoft, has said the Federal Communications Commission must build on a recently passed internet access visualization law to fund areas in need of broadband services.

The DSC-EMI Maintenance Solutions joint venture has won a potential $61.1M contract for management, maintenance, supervision and other services needed to ensure continuous operations at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in California.

Northrop Grumman has worked with NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and the Smithsonian Institution to transfer the operations control center of the orbiting Chandra space telescope to a facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, from its previous location near Harvard University's campus in Cambridge.

Cherokee Nation Operational Solutions has secured a one-year, $42M contract to help the Defense Health Agency prepare military treatment facilities for the implementation of a new electronic health records system.

Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has been named a certified third-party assessment organization by the accreditation body of the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program to help determine defense contractors' compliance with the new security standards. The CMMC Accreditation Body authorized Kratos to assess whether companies observe security practices that follow DOD's industrial cybersecurity requirements, Kratos said Wednesday.

The Department of Defense's artificial intelligence hub has released a draft request for proposals for services under a blanket purchase agreement to develop or prepare datasets that are ready for use in AI applications. According to the draft RFP, the selected vendor will help DOD components to move cloud services to the Joint Common Foundation by providing JCF libraries with datasets, machine learning models and source code and updating the catalogs of both DOD and JCF.

The Federal Communications Commission seeks technology and related services to automate repetitive tasks and reduce manual work within the Universal Service Administrative Company, an FCC-supported nonprofit. FCC said Wednesday in a SAM notice it requires robotic process automation services and tool to help USAC meet strategic goals, streamline workflows, lessen operational risk, transition from manual transactional processing and enhance functionality for users.

John Kamensky, a senior fellow with the IBM Center for the Business of Government, wrote in an article published Thursday on Nextgov that agencies should go beyond the Federal Data Strategy by taking into consideration four recommendations to promote intergovernmental data sharing.

Nino DiCosmo, president of L3Harris Technologies' public safety and professional communications division, has said the U.S. must build on efforts to integrate the First Responder Network Authority to innovate emergency communications.

The U.S. Navy plans to issue a request for proposals in January to help field a next-generation lightweight torpedo concept as part of the service's compact rapid attack weapon program, National Defense Magazine reported Wednesday.

Coalfire Federal has been certified by the accreditation body of the Department of Defense's Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program to conduct audits to determine compliance of defense contractors with mandatory cybersecurity standards set by the Pentagon.

Axiom Space will construct a 14-acre headquarters campus at Houston Spaceport where the company plans to build a habitable space station module for NASA and train private astronauts for missions.