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1 week ago | 
executivegov.com | Derrick Henry
Federal Chief Information Officer Gregory Barbaccia has sent out an email outlining 16 operating principles for IT leaders of government agencies. In the document, Barbaccia called on the government CIOs to build trust, which entails transparency with co-workers, other agencies, the public and government partners, Federal News Network said Thursday. He also urged the CIOs to exercise good judgment when performing their duties and own the outcome of their decisions.
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1 week ago | 
executivebiz.com | Derrick Henry
Raft’s StarSage has become the first agentic artificial intelligence system to connect, communicate and operate across the U.S. Air Force tactical systems. StarSage exhibited machine learning-driven decision support across multiple operational layers during the Project Convergence Capstone 5, or PC-C5, exercise, Raft said Thursday.
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1 week ago | 
executivegov.com | Derrick Henry
Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Jacky Rosen, D-Nev., have introduced the Protection Against Foreign Adversarial Artificial Intelligence Act of 2025 to protect federal data from adversarial artificial intelligence technologies, such as DeepSeek. Under the proposal, companies would be prohibited from using DeepSeek to fulfill contracts with federal agencies, according to a Tuesday press release from Cassidy’s office.
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1 week ago | 
executivebiz.com | Derrick Henry
The U.S. Navy has awarded Advanced Integrated Technologies a $16.3 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for . Under the agreement, AIT will provide management, technical services, labor, material and equipment to accomplish depot-level repairs and alterations, troubleshooting, maintenance, installation and removal of main and auxiliary, hull, mechanical, and electrical equipment and systems onboard Navy ships or other military vessels, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
executivegov.com | Derrick Henry
The Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the University of Oklahoma have agreed to establish a metal additive manufacturing center in Norman, Oklahoma. Once operational, the center will develop new manufacturing technologies to meet U.S. aerospace and defense requirements, ORNL said Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
executivebiz.com | Derrick Henry
The Federal Aviation Administration has selected CGI Federal to help modernize the Notice to Airmen, or NOTAM, system, a critical U.S. aviation safety system. The effort will involve implementing an advanced NOTAM platform to enhance the FAA’s ability to communicate and provide safety alerts to aviation stakeholders across the National Airspace System, CGI said Tuesday. CGI Federal will work with Google Public Sector, NG Aviation and Mosaic ATM to deliver the requirements.
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1 week ago | 
executivebiz.com | Derrick Henry
Vibrint and Invary are collaborating to deliver an advanced zero trust technology that would enhance national security and defense customers’ mission system resilience. The product incorporates zero trust principles at the kernel level to protect against zero-day threats, Vibrint said Tuesday. It integrates Vibrint’s secure enterprise architecture with Invary’s real-time Kernel Integrity Measurement technology.
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1 week ago | 
executivegov.com | Derrick Henry
The Department of Defense’s Test Resource Management Center and Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division have completed two flight tests for a reusable hypersonic vehicle. In both the December 2024 and March 2025 trials, the Stratolaunch Talon-A hypersonic vehicle launched from a Roc carrier aircraft, flew over the Pacific Ocean and breached Mach 5 speed, the Department of Defense said Monday.
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1 week ago | 
executivebiz.com | Derrick Henry
Cubic will display DTECH Fusion Trust at the 2025 Special Operations Forces Week, which will be held from May 5 to 8 in Tampa, Florida. Powered by cybersecurity specialist HyperSphere Technologies, DTECH Fusion Trust can be used in various applications, such as body-worn compute platforms, mobile data centers and cloud-native systems, to deliver quantum-resistant encryption, Cubic said Monday.
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1 week ago | 
executivebiz.com | Derrick Henry
Drone manufacturer Skydio has delivered the first batch of X10D small unmanned aircraft systems under the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance Tranche 2 program. An Army Transforming in Contact unit recently received hundreds of X10D systems before its scheduled deployment, Skydio said Monday. The sUAS will provide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
