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Monday, March 17th, 2025

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Bill authorizing new VA facilities advances Senate

Legislation authorizing several new construction projects for the Veterans Affairs medical facilities passed in the U.S. Senate on Friday. The legislation, Fiscal Year 2024 Veterans Affairs Major Medical Facility Authorization Act, sponsored by U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran (R-KS) and Jon Tester... Read More »

DOD awards winners of hypersonic prototypes challenge

The Department of Defense (DOD) recently named California-based Castelion Corp. and Massachusetts-based Specter Aerospace as the winners of the Hypersonic Accelerated Manufactured Prototype Demonstration (Hyper-AMPD!) prize challenge. Each company receives $250,000. The two-phase project sought... Read More »

U.S., Canada and Finland to build Artic, polar icebreakers

Building off of landmark agreements signed in July, the governments of the United States, Canada and Finland signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to start work on developing world-class Arctic and polar icebreakers. The MOU covers the exchange of knowledge, information and resources in... Read More »

Republican senators request policy shift toward Qatar

A coalition of Republican senators is requesting the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of State to reverse American diplomatic policies toward the state of Qatar. Citing Qatar’s hospitality toward Hamas and Hamas’ role in the killing of several U.S. citizens during the... Read More »

DHS, Japan partner for technical research and development

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) and Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) recently signed a joint statement of intent for collaborative research, development and foreign technical exchanges. Under... Read More »

RTX awarded DARPA cyber resiliency contract

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded RTX’s BBN Technologies a contract Thursday that will support the agency’s Compartmentalization and Privilege management (COM) program. The CPM worker to enhance cyber resilience by automatically subdividing software systems into... Read More »

National Emergency Response Information System launches

The National Emergency Response Information System (NERIS) launched on Monday. The system is a cloud-based platform that will provide fire and EMS departments and first responders with more accurate and actionable post-incident information. NERIS captures incident data and provides analytic... Read More »

CISA releases international strategic plan

In a proactive move, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its first comprehensive plan focusing on how the agency will engage international partners to strengthen infrastructure security and resilience. The 2025-2026 International Strategic Plan supports CISA’s... Read More »

California Highway Patrol launches San Bernardino operation

The California Highway Patrol (CHP) recently begun operation in San Bernardino. The CHP’s operation will provide the San Bernardino Police Department with additional investigative support, and will target stolen vehicles and sideshow activities. Sideshows are unsanctioned and illegal events... Read More »

Army awards Raytheon $676M in contracts for TOW weapon system

The U.S. Army has awarded RTX’s Raytheon a $676 million contract to continue manufacturing the TOW weapon system. The tube-launched, optically tracked, wireless-guided TOW system will be in service with the U.S. and allied forces beyond 2050, officials said. The contracts cover two separate... Read More »