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August 26, 2024
DARPA Commercial Accelerators, Heico buys Capewell Aerial Sys, Army’s acquisition reform catch-22, FCC’s modernization plan, new counterintelligence strategy
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August 26, 2024
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DARPA taps 5 entities to commercialize agency-funded tech: The accelerators will develop solutions from government projects.
Industry participation critical to 6G rollout: ITI wants industry to be involved in government efforts to regulate 6G.
Top tech officials call for public feedback on FedRAMP metrics: Proposed metrics will drive "major decisions" shaping FedRAMP.
DEFENSE & AEROSPACE
Army rhetoric on software acquisition reform doesn't match reality.
The Army is attempting to reassure industry participants that it's on track to reform its software acquisition process, but the chairman of the Alliance for Commercial Technology in Government says that while "many of the right things were said publicly", those sentiments haven't translated into reality. Read more
Navy will have ERP software that can track "every single transaction" by 2026.
The Navy Comptroller has said the entire Navy will have an Enterprise Resource Planning system that can track “every single transaction" by 2026; the last major commands have already begun transitioning to the new system. Read more
US special ops are a 'big fan' of Pentagon's Replicator project.
The assistant secretary of defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict has said that as "students of the Ukraine conflict," the fight has underscored that "mass matters…and the Replicator initiative really gets at that mass piece." Read more
ICYMI:
Army’s 'G-Invoicing' system is going live in November.
CDAO issues industry challenge to advance enterprise workflows.
Navy 'burning through people' and facing support ships sidelines.
Northrop shows off new digital radar tech in first flight.
Defense Contract Awards
SpaceWERX picks nine for Program Year 2024.2 Strategic Funding Increase initiative.
DISA taps Trellix to secure DOD email systems from zero-day threats.
Sierra Nevada wins $991M Army contract for HADES ISR program.
Teledyne Brown Engineering snags $114M Army contract for missile defense support.
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Defense Job Openings
DOD OIG seeks Assistant IG, Personnel and Health Affairs.
ONR needs a Superintendent to oversee its Space Science Division
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INTEL COMMUNITY
FBI risks losing track of sensitive hard drives & electronic media.
The DOJ’s watchdog is flagging urgent concerns about gaps in the FBI’s processes for destroying sensitive electronic devices; it says lackluster practices at an unnamed FBI disposal facility include unsecured spaces coupled with a non-functioning security camera. Read more
The IC has a new counterintelligence strategy.
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center within the ODNI has published a new edition of the National Counterintelligence Strategy; the refreshed version includes nine goals split across three pillars, which focus on addressing threats posed by foreign intelligence entities. Read more
ICYMI:
NSA & partners issue cyber information sheet on threat detection.
ODNI releases Intelligence Community Annual Demographic Report for FY '23. (The demographics are for hiring stats.)
How NGA aeronautical navigation is improving crisis responses.
CIVILIAN
ICE uses antiquated workarounds to track migrant children.
ICE has openly admitted that it's failing to monitor all unaccompanied migrant children that have been released from DHS and HHS custody; it's now using lackluster workarounds like spreadsheets and emails to keep its head above water. ICE transferred over 448,000 unaccompanied children to HHS from fiscal 2019 to 2023, and 32,000 unaccompanied minors didn't show up for scheduled court appearances in the same time period. They’re poof, gone. Read more
Inside the FCC's four-pronged plan for IT modernization.
The CIO of the FCC explains that to get out from under technical debt, his focus for the past two years has been on full stack observability, operational efficiency, and zero trust. “Whether it’s platform-as-a-service or software-as-a-service, even getting into serverless environments, microservices and things like that, we were very deliberate in that process of bringing on a team of folks to help us that has expertise that both technical and business,” he said. Read more
DHS is developing a ‘different’ method for data protection.
The DHS‘s Science and Technology Directorate is prototyping a way to protect data that S&T Data Analytics Technology Center Director describes as “a different way of thinking about security…We’re actually doing some prototypes right now…it’s open ended in the sense that to make this data autonomy concept realized, it’s going to require new products and services in the future, and a lot of thinking from all our partners in academia and industry, other government labs, to kind of solve this problem.” Read more
ICYMI:
Americans like federal agencies but are separated by partisan gap.
CHCO Council to move the needle on ‘evergreen’ federal workforce issues.
NASA welcomes the two newest members of the Advanced Composites Consortium.
Payroll providers are piloting new OPM retirement platform.
Civilian Contracts Awards
NASA adds three vendors to VADR launch services contract.
BluePath Labs snags $4.5M contract for DOE admin support services.
Dignari awarded $2.1M contract for DHS to provide continuous evaluation services.
SofitC3 wins $2.7M DHS risk management support services task.
Follow Civilian Leaders
NRC appoints chief human capital officer & director.
USDOT appoints its new acting chief AI officer.
Civilian Job Openings
NASA is looking for a new Director of Aeronautics.
USDA, Civil Rights is on the lookout for a new Executive Director.
M&A CORNER
Heico acquires Capewell Aerial Systems divisions.
Heico has completed its cash acquisition of the aerial delivery and descent devices divisions of Capewell Aerial Systems, a provider of proprietary aircraft cockpit emergency egress and aerial delivery products for aerospace and defense applications. Read more
SHOWER THOUGHTS 🚿
How is SATCOM driving the future of C&C? Think tank leaders discuss the latest developments in strategic and tactical SATCOM. SOURCE↗︎
Will the West loosen weapon restrictions after Kursk incursion? Ukraine's tactical gamble may open the door to Storm Shadow and ATACMS strikes on Russian territory. SOURCE↗︎
What future cybersecurity successes does CISA see for itself? CISA's associate director talks about JCDC's potential to promote collective cyber defense. SOURCE↗︎
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