How Adobe Is Tackling Content Authentication in an AI-Driven World
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How Adobe Is Tackling Content Authentication in an AI-Driven World

With artificial intelligence on the rise, content authentication and verification is becoming more of a challenge than ever. But companies like Adobe are working to create new tools for verifying the attributes and history of images and videos online, which could have significant impact on both the public and private sectors.

“It’s an exciting opportunity,” said Brendan Curley, vice president of public sector sales at Adobe, in a video interview with Executive Mosaic. “It’s not just us — 900 companies have committed to installing and allowing basically an icon to be put on a picture or video so that you can validate its authenticity.”

“When more and more companies are committing to that, we can have a better sense of what’s true and what isn’t,” he added.

Adobe has a long-standing partnership with Microsoft — Curley explained that Adobe’s Sign product is built on Microsoft Azure and that the two companies are connected “on a lot of levels.” Now, Adobe and Microsoft are teaming up to solve the growing content authenticity issue plaguing social media and online communities.

In conversation with Executive Mosaic’s video reporter Summer Myatt, Curley acknowledged that while many of Adobe’s commercial products are geared toward creative industries, content authenticity and validation are of paramount importance in today’s climate.

“As the technology continues to grow, we want to encourage people to be creative. But when it comes to people trusting the data that they’re seeing, it’s important that we can look at that and validate it and make our own decisions in terms of the authenticity,” Curley shared.

Watch Brendan Curley’s full video interview here, and don’t forget to connect with Executive Mosaic on LinkedIn.

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White House Meeting Fails to Reach Consensus on Debt Limit
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White House Meeting Fails to Reach Consensus on Debt Limit

The meeting at the White House on Tuesday between President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy failed to result in any agreement on the U.S. debt ceiling, The Wall Street Journal reported.

The U.S. government could default on its debt as early as June 1 if Congress fails to raise or suspend the borrowing limit.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were also present during the meeting.

After the afternoon meeting, Biden said the U.S. would not default on its obligations and that “politics, posturing and gamesmanship” will continue in the coming weeks.

The president said negotiators should focus their discussions on “how to lower the deficit to put our fiscal house in order, but…we need to take the threat of default off the table.”

The meeting is expected to lead to a series of talks to reach an agreement on government spending, according to the report. Biden and congressional leaders will meet again on Friday.

The White House recently presented analyses of the potential economic impacts of several debt ceiling scenarios, including a brief default and a protracted default.

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Space Force GPS Tech Program Office Completes Technical Requirements Verification of Receiver Card
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Space Force GPS Tech Program Office Completes Technical Requirements Verification of Receiver Card

The Military GPS User Equipment Increment 1 program office within the U.S. Space Force’s Space Systems Command reached an acquisition baseline program milestone with the completion of a technical requirements verification of the aviation/maritime GPS receiver card.

With the TRV milestone, the Department of Defense and allied partners can now update their existing receivers with the use of a Military Code aviation/maritime receiver designed to counter adversaries that deny the U.S. military’s positioning, navigation and timing capabilities, SSC said Monday.

“This achievement brings warfighters closer to having M-Code receivers, which can protect against adversarial threats,” said Col. Matt Spencer, senior materiel leader for SSC’s Military and GPS User Equipment Acquisition Delta.

Aside from completing the GPS Receiver Application Module-Standard Electronic Module/M-Code TRV, the program office finished characterization testing of the GRAM S/M software and hardware, issued security certification for the receiver card and created an integration guide for prospective users.

“With all requirements verified, the MGUE Inc 1 program is closer to its platform integration phase and future development of MGUE,” said Christina Jin, SSC MGUE engineering branch systems engineering lead.

MGUE Inc 1 circuit card receivers have improved anti-spoofing, antitamper and anti-jamming capabilities. SSC said MGUE integration activities are being performed across the Army’s Stryker vehicle, Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the Air Force’s B-2 strategic bomber and the Marine Corps’ Joint Light Tactical Vehicle.

L3Harris Technologies, Raytheon Technologies and BAE Systems have secured MGUE Increment 1 contracts.

In September 2022, the U.S. Space Force and three companies concluded the preliminary review design phase of the MGUE Increment 2 Miniature Serial Interface project, which aims to produce tools that will enable warfighters to use allied satellite PNT signals.

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Col. Richard Kniseley Shares Top Priorities for Commercial Space Office
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Col. Richard Kniseley Shares Top Priorities for Commercial Space Office

Col. Richard Kniseley, head of the Commercial Space Office within the U.S. Space Force, said making deliberate investments in commercial capabilities in support of the needs of warfighters is one of his top priorities for the newly established office, C4ISRNET reported Monday.

“Because the feedback I’ve gotten from the commercial entities is they want to get involved. They want to be good partners. … The best way to do it is through investments. So, aligning contracts and aligning the right funding to do this,” he told the publication in an interview.

Another priority for Kniseley is transitioning the Commercial Satellite Communications Office away from the Defense Information Systems Agency. The office currently uses DISA for contracting.

He said his office plans to set up a working capital fund by the end of September to enable the office to go after other mission areas moving forward.

Kniseley said he also wants to further advance industry engagements as he builds up the Commercial Space Office, which will be headquartered in Chantilly, Virginia.

He cited his plans for the Space Domain Awareness marketplace and highlighted the need to integrate new capabilities during peacetime.

“The way I look at it, especially with this conflict that’s coming [with China], we have got to get these capabilities integrated during peacetime so that the warfighter has a chance to use it, so that we can integrate them into exercises and war games to really make it a part of the architecture,” Kniseley said.

GSA, OMB Further Procurement Equity Goals With 2 New Online Small Business Databases
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GSA, OMB Further Procurement Equity Goals With 2 New Online Small Business Databases

The General Services Administration and the Office of Management and Budget unveiled two online tools to support the Biden administration’s goal of improving equity and diversity in procurement.

The Procurement Equity Tool is operated by OMB and available to users with government accounts, and the Supplier Base Dashboard is available on the GSA website, GSA said Monday.

The online procurement equity database provides information on small, disadvantaged businesses, including their business type, location, as well as Product Services and North American Industry Classification System codes. Government customers can select from new or experienced SDBs that are registered on SAM.gov.

The Supplier Base Dashboard displays graphical data on new, recent and established vendors, as well as the number of small businesses by socio-economic category. The reports are in compliance with OMB’s memos on advancing procurement equity and increasing small business entrant participation to boost supplier diversity.

“By providing our federal partners with more information when they make procurement decisions, we’re better able to set ourselves up to achieve our contracting goals and create more equity in the marketplace for everyone,” GSA Administrator Robin Carnahan said.

GSA will be the focus of GovCon Wire’s annual GSA Forum on May 23. The virtual event is still open for registration.

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Former Prosecutor Deborah Robinson Nominated as Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator
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Former Prosecutor Deborah Robinson Nominated as Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator

President Biden has announced his intent to nominate former prosecutor Deborah Robinson to serve as the intellectual property enforcement coordinator responsible for harmonizing the development of the administration’s IP policy and strategy, the White House announced Monday.

Robinson is an attorney with more than two decades of experience in global intellectual property protection covering television, music, digital and consumer products.

She was head of intellectual property enforcement at Paramount Global, formerly ViacomCBS, where she established and supervised a global content protection group and developed and implemented anti-piracy protocols and strategies.

Before joining Paramount, Robinson served as regional counsel at the Recording Industry Association of America and as an assistant district attorney for the city of Philadelphia.

In her time as a prosecutor, Robinson supervised a unit of 35 attorneys and oversaw the litigation of 65,000 cases annually.

Established in 2008, the IPEC works with department and agency heads to coordinate the development of a Joint Strategic Plan on Intellectual Property Enforcement, which serves as a roadmap for the U.S. government to protect IP critical to the U.S. economy.

Navy Commissions 12th Freedom-Class Littoral Combat Ship USS Cooperstown
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Navy Commissions 12th Freedom-Class Littoral Combat Ship USS Cooperstown

The U.S. Navy has placed into active service its 12th Freedom-class littoral combat ship, manufactured by Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine, during a commissioning ceremony held at Pier 88 in New York, New York.

Dubbed LCS 23, USS Cooperstown (LCS 23) is the first naval ship to bear the name of Cooperstown, New York, and is the latest vessel to join the Navy’s LCS fleet that operates in near-shore environments, Lockheed said Monday.

The ship also honors 70 Major League Baseball Hall of Fame players who served in the U.S. military during wartime.

LCS 23 was launched in January 2019 and christened in February 2020. It completed acceptance trials on Dec. 14, 2020, and was delivered to the Navy on Sept. 20, 2022.

Following the commissioning ceremony, the combat ship will sail from New York to its homeport of Mayport, Florida.

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CISA Names Chris Hughes, Michelle Hook as Cyber Innovation Fellows
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CISA Names Chris Hughes, Michelle Hook as Cyber Innovation Fellows

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has welcomed industry cybersecurity professionals Chris Hughes and Michelle Hook as inaugural CISA Cyber Innovation Fellows.

CISA established the Cyber Innovation Fellows Initiative in 2022 to bring in cyber experts from the private sector and allow them to work with the agency’s technical teams to help advance cyber defense efforts, CISA Director Jen Easterly wrote in a blog post published Monday.

Hughes, chief information security officer at Aquia, will serve as a cloud and application security expert within CISA’s cybersecurity division and will help develop test automation, design security into the software supply chain and evaluate and mature other cyber capabilities for the agency.

Hook, head of cyberthreat intelligence at CLS International Bank, will advise CISA on the development of a cyberthreat intelligence strategy, roadmap, vision and implementation plan. As part of the cybersecurity division, she will also support outreach and engagement initiatives and facilitate industry partnerships.

CISA expects more Fellows to join in the coming months to start their part-time work in the areas of cyber operations planning, zero trust, cloud security, risk analysis and software bill of materials development, 2023 Wash100 awardee Easterly reported.

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SOSi Wins Spot on $995M USAFE-AFAFRICA Award; Julian Setian Quoted
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SOSi Wins Spot on $995M USAFE-AFAFRICA Award; Julian Setian Quoted

SOSi has secured a spot on a $995 million contract from the U.S. Air Forces in Europe and Air Forces Africa.

As an awardee, SOSi will compete for task orders under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity advisory and assistance services-focused contract, the Reston, Virginia-based enterprise announced on Tuesday.

“As the prime contractor supporting USAFE’s Mission Partner Environment requirements and the U.S. Army’s largest provider of intelligence analytic services in Europe, we are proud to expand our support to critical DoD intelligence, cyber and engineering missions across Europe and Africa,” said Julian Setian, CEO of SOSi and a two-time Wash100 Award winner.

Task orders included in the contract will support a variety of training, engineering and intelligence demands in Europe and Africa.

This award follows SOSi’s October 2022 win of two $31.3 million task orders under a $385 million Air Force and Defense Information Systems Agency contract, for which the enterprise is currently delivering architecture and engineering services to USAFE and AFAFRICA.

Earlier, SOSi won a $17.5 million contract from the U.S. Central Command to maintain secure facilities at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida and Al Udeid Airbase in Doha, Qatar.

Cubic to Offer Five-Year Manufacturer Warranty on New DTECH Core Devices; Anthony Verna Quoted
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Cubic to Offer Five-Year Manufacturer Warranty on New DTECH Core Devices; Anthony Verna Quoted

Cubic‘s mission and performance solutions division will begin issuing a standard five-year warranty on new core devices developed by its DTECH Mission Solutions unit for military, first responder and commercial applications.

“No matter the mission, the platform needs to survive and be reliable. The new warranty is based on a proven track record of high reliability for all DTECH families of systems to include M3-SE, M3X, Vocality and XD,” Anthony Verna, senior vice president and general manager of the DTECH business unit, remarked in a statement published Monday.

DTECH devices work to allow users to analyze and combine mission-critical data at the tactical edge in any environmental conditions.

The software-defined storage technologies provide computing and networking capabilities and optimize size, weight and power to support low-footprint locations.

The small form factor enclaves can be operated directly in a transit case or a backpack, reducing network setup and teardown.

“Cubic’s DTECH Edge Compute and Networking platforms are trusted, scalable and intuitive technologies built for a decisive advantage,” Verna said.

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