Global Locals

U.S. Commerce Department | March 11, 2020

The Trump administration said on Tuesday it was extending a license allowing U.S. companies to continue doing business with China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd until May 15. The U.S. Commerce Department has issued a series of extensions of the temporary license and had previously extended it until April 1. Huawei, the second-largest maker of smartphones, is also a major telecom equipment that provides 5G network technology. After adding Huawei to an economic blacklist in May citing national...

Emerging Technology, Infrastructure

Torch.AI | August 19, 2022

Torch.AI, pioneers of data infrastructure AI, announced today a partnership with Vertosoft to accelerate the adoption of next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) and data infrastructure software capabilities across the U.S. Government. Torch.AI, already supporting some of the world's most important organizations, has re-imagined how organizations use and extract value from data. The company's software is quickly becoming the AI ecosystem and data infrastructure standar...

Government Business

Omnispace | September 02, 2021

Omnispace and Vulcan Wireless Inc. today announced successful voice and data communication between its NGSO on-orbit satellite and a widely fielded model of mobile tactical military communications radios (PRC-117G). Omnispace is seamlessly uniting mobile and satellite to create the world's only truly global 5G mobile network. As part of Omnispace's Phase II Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) contract, the demonstration was in cooperation with U.S. Space Force...

Cyberspace Solarium Commission | March 16, 2020

A federal commission has determined that the US is not prepared to deal with a major-scale cyberattack. The Cyberspace Solarium Commission recently published the results of its year-long analysis of the cyber risks faced by the country, concluding that the country is “dangerously insecure in cyber,” Forbes reported. The commission cautioned that “millions” of cyber intrusions occur daily, disrupting everything from financial transactions to even the democratic electoral p...