The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive requiring civilian agencies update or disconnect on-premises Microsoft Exchange servers.
The Defense Innovation Unit issued 56 prototype other transaction agreements in 2020, according to a recent report, bringing the total number of OTAs issued to 208 since its inception in 2015.
By Defense Systems Staff
Mar 03, 2021
The Defense Logistics Agency has ordered up a 3D printing factory housed in a shipping container.
Now under development, the rugged 3D printing pod would be up to 40-feet long and be set up in a standard 40-foot container so it could be deployed directly to the field to manufacture parts in support of battlefield operations, disaster relief or other remote missions.
With a $1.6 million contract to ExOne, DLA plans to use the company’s military-edition 3D printer for manufacturing products or tooling from over 20 metal, ceramic and other powder materials.
ExOne’s binder jet 3D printing is an additive manufacturing (AM) process that transforms powdered materials transforms into precision parts by using an industrial printhead to selectively deposit alternating layers of a liquid binder and powder particles.
William Burns, the president s nominee to lead the Central Intelligence Agency, said the SolarWinds attack was a "harsh wake-up call" about the country’s vulnerabilities in both critical infrastructure and supply chains.
By GCN Staff
Mar 03, 2021
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has stopped offering the paper and associated raster versions of the marine navigation chart for Lake Tahoe – the first chart to be sunsetted under the five-year plan to move to fully electronic navigational charts (ENCs). After August, the agency said in a Feb. 26 announcement, the electronic version will be the only NOAA nautical chart of the area.
The Lake Tahoe chart was selected to test the various system modifications required for ENCs, which provide a detailed representation of the U.S. coastal and marine environment. Going forward, the only updates NOAA will apply to the updates of raster charts are those critical to navigation, such as the location of newly discovered shoals or changes to buoys. Routine information, such as shoreline survey data, will only be updated in the ENCs. If the two versions get too far out of sync, the raster chart may be cancelled earlier.