Industry and government experts talked about the future of cybersecurity at a summit held in Tallahassee, Florida, and panelists highlighted multifactor authentication and zero trust during a discussion at the event, Government Technology reported Thursday. Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP Federal, stressed the importance of implementing different forms of MFA. “The problem is […] More

The U.S. Army is conducting market research to identify potential vendors that can help the service branch procure and manage cloud-based software platforms. A SAM notice posted Wednesday indicates the Enterprise Cloud Management Agency is interested in procuring commercial off-the-shelf software licenses for a shared services program, a DevSecOps pipeline and a data service environment. […] More

IBM has unveiled a set of capabilities designed to help government agencies, businesses and other organizations protect critical data as they transition to post-quantum cryptography. The IBM Quantum Safe technology is composed of three tools: IBM Quantum Safe Explorer, Quantum Safe Advisor and Quantum Safe Remediator, the company said Wednesday. The IBM Quantum Safe Explorer, […] More

The Department of Energy has awarded $40 million in total to 15 projects focused on developing energy-efficient cooling systems for facilities that house computers, servers and other computing infrastructure. The projects were chosen as part of the Biden administration’s goal to reduce the carbon footprint of critical infrastructure, DOE said Tuesday. Data centers are responsible […] More

Biometrics software provider Aware is presenting its digital identity authentication offering for federal, state and local government agencies at the ongoing Border Security Expo in El Paso, Texas. Aware said Wednesday it provides biometric authentication tools and services to domestic and international public sector customers in support of border management and security operations. “As we […] More

BAE Systems and Raytheon Technologies have developed chip design capabilities on Microsoft‘s Azure cloud service as part of a Department of Defense program that aims to accelerate and secure the U.S. microelectronics industrial base. Three new chips were created using the secure design capabilities of the Rapid Assured Microelectronics Prototypes using Advanced Commercial Capabilities project, […] More

BigBear.ai and L3Harris Technologies are working together to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to enhance the capabilities of autonomous surface vessels. The collaboration will combine L3Harris’ ASView vessel control system and BigBear.ai’s Ursa Minor, an AI-based technology for computer vision, forecasting and situational awareness analytics, Columbia, Maryland-based AI company said Tuesday. ASView is designed […] More

Applied Intuition will provide the Department of the Air Force’s innovation arm with access to virtual sensor optimization software under a contract. The autonomous vehicle software developer will deliver the offering via its sensor simulation product Spectral to help AFWERX enhance sensor performance, selection, evaluation and timeline development, Applied Intuition said Wednesday.   Qasar Younis, […] More

Carahsoft has agreed to be the master government aggregator of a Qrypt data security platform by offering the technology to agencies via a network of resellers and two procurement vehicles. The Quantum Security Suite is designed to help organizations encrypt data at rest or in motion and prepare for possible quantum computing threats, Qrypt said […] More

Mary Petryszyn, former corporate vice president of Northrop Grumman and two-time Wash100 Award recipient, and Tana Utley, former executive at Caterpillar, will join the board of directors of Woodward on June 1. The aerospace and industrial equipment manufacturer said Wednesday Petryszyn led the defense systems sector at Northrop as president in addition to her CVP […] More

State and local government agencies looking to generate insights from large volumes of data and speed up the decision-making process are turning to an emerging data management design concept, called data fabric, to facilitate the retrieval, integration and sharing of information across disparate data sources, StateTech Magazine reported Wednesday. One of the two approaches to […] More

General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business has handed over the first of the eight unmanned aircraft systems being manufactured for the U.S. Marine Corps. Naval Air Systems Command said Wednesday the MQ-9 Reapers are intended to perform long-distance intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions as well as data relays in the Indo-Pacific Command area. The first delivered Reaper […] More