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Pentagon Awards JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft, Again
The decision follows a months-long legal challenge filed by Amazon Web Services.
Science & Tech
TSA's Updated Strategy Seeks Better Tech, Data-Sharing
“TSA Administrator’s Intent 2.0,” released on Tuesday, updates the 2018 version.
Threats
DHS Expands Insider-Threat Program to Cover Everyone Who Accesses Its Info
The Homeland Security Department will begin tracking all personnel—federal employees and contractors, with or without a security clearance—in the hunt for insider threats.
Science & Tech
ICE Details Its Outsourced Face-Recognition Efforts
A new report details the workings, rules, and privacy implications of Immigration and Customs Enforcement's 3rd-party facial recognition system.
Science & Tech
How COVID-19 Kicked a USAF Software Team Into High Gear
The programming group that makes tools for the Air Force's developers is now posting about 10 upgrades per day.
Science & Tech
The Pentagon's $800M Effort to Embed AI In Decisions in 'All Tiers'
That's the goal of a five-year task order from the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to Booz Allen Hamilton.
Science & Tech
The Army Wants a Wearable COVID-19 Detector
On Monday, the service issued a request for project proposals through the Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium “to develop a wearable diagnostic capability."
Threats
US Army Wants to Model COVID's Impact on Combatant Commands
The Walter Reed Army Institute of Research has sent an urgent request for COVID-19 modeling and prediction analyses services.
Science & Tech
US Army to Study How Humans Team With AI
A new contract will focus on the teaming aspect of artificial intelligence in warfare by analyzing how humans and machines think when working together.
Policy
Congress Hears Options—And Concerns—for Using Smartphone Data to Fight Coronavirus
Other countries have been using various forms of location- and proximity-tracing to slow the spread of the disease, with widely varying levels of privacy protections.
Science & Tech
Border Patrol Seeks Automated Sensors to Cover Watery Blindspots
Homeland Security is looking for tech that can help border agents spot illegal watercraft — and decide what to do about them.
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Threats
Security Clearance Backlog Hits Long-Awaited ‘Steady State’
About 200,000 people are waiting for background investigations, which lawmakers called a welcome, "sustainable" level.
Science & Tech
US Space Force Lists 20 Tough Problems for 1st Pitch Day
The military’s newest branch invites industry to bring solutions on March 4. Officials want to move quickly if they see something they like.
Science & Tech
CBP Reverses Course on Mandatory Facial Scans for US Citizens
After criticism from Congress and privacy advocates, the border security agency says it will pull back a proposed rule change.
Science & Tech
CBP Aims to Sweep US Citizens into Facial-Recognition Program
A proposed rule change would no longer allow citizens and green card holders to opt out of Customs and Border Protection’s biometrics program.
Science & Tech
Meet the US Air Force's 1st Chief Experience Officer
The service hired digital consultant Colt Whittall to improve the digital tools that airmen use to fix things and fight.
Science & Tech
US to Deploy Anti-Drone Defenses Along US-Mexico Border
The manufacturer says its Titan system hijacks incoming drones' control signals, then tells them to land or return to base.
Science & Tech
US Testing Autonomous Border-Patrol Drones
Planck Aerosystems gets funding to try its small rotorcraft in operational environments over the next three to six months.
Science & Tech
CBP Wants Technology To Spot Everything Crossing the US Border
The single solution should be able to detect anything crossing the northern or southern borders between ports of entry and immediately alert border patrol agents.
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