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HP Enterprise Services To Supply IT to Strategic Command Under $443.8 Million Effort

HP Enterprise Services, Herndon, Virginia, has been awarded a $443,779,321 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-reimbursement contract for the U.S.

Crews from the USS Nebraska and the USS Omaha visit the U.S. Strategic Command headquarters at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, on June 22. To add information technology needed in part to support its strategic deterrence missions, the command has selected HP Enterprise Services to provide IT services over the next five years. Credit: STRATCOM

Startups Tackle Improvements to Space and Earth Systems

New technologies will help with on-orbit servicing of satellites as well as identity management, ground operations of aircraft, travel and product life-cycle management.

Kurs Orbital is integrating its established rendezvous and docking technology with computer vision, radar capabilities and robotics to create an on-orbit servicing spacecraft fleet for satellites in different orbits. Credit: Kurs Orbital

Koehler Nominated for Assignment as Commander, Third Fleet

Rear Adm. Stephen T.

RaySecur Names Shatilla as Chief Commercial Officer

RaySecur, Cambridge, Massachusetts, has appointed Richard Shatilla to chief commercial officer.

U.S. and EU To Collaborate Against Ransomware

The organizations are forming a working group to strengthen ties in the fight against adversarial cyber activity.

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas (c), speaking to European Union counterparts in Portugal on June 21 during the U.S.-E.U. Ministerial Meeting of Justice and Home Affairs, has announced that the Department of Homeland Security and the EU will form a working group to examine ransomware attacks. Credit: DHS

Interoperability Key in Navy Fight Against Cyber Adversaries

The mix of ships adds to the need for workable security tools.

Quality assurance specialists at the Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific inspect network racks in the center's Network Integration and Engineering Facility. The Navy is tasking industry with providing cybersecurity solutions that are interoperable across the service. (Credit: Rick Naystatt, U.S. Navy)

Status Quo Cannot Be a Pace Setter

Addressing internal needs helps organizations manage change.

SDA Experiments to Advance Optical Communications

The Space Development Agency is conducting three key experiments of capabilities in low earth orbit.

Space X’s Falcon 9 first stage rocket returns to Earth on June 21, landing on the Just Read the Instructions droneship after launch of the military’s GPS III-5. Space X is preparing for a June 25 launch of key satellite and experimental equipment for the Space Development Agency, as part of a greater Transporter 2 mission set. Credit: SpaceX

Air Force Greatly Widens the Aperture on Zero Trust

The service is aggressively going after the emerging cybersecurity method.

Jurney Nominated for Assignment as CG, II Marine Expeditionary Force

Maj. Gen. William M.