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  • In-Q-Tel, Anomali Enter Agreement to Develop Threat Intelligence Platforms
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    In-Q-Tel, Anomali Enter Agreement to Develop Threat Intelligence Platforms

    Anomali and In-Q-Tel have signed a technology development agreement to build cyber analytics offerings for the intelligence sector. IQT said Tuesday it also invested in Anomali through venture funding rounds to help further develop the latter’s Enterprise and ThreatStream threat intelligence platforms. George Hoyem, investment lead for enterprise IT at In-Q-Tel, said Anomali’s framework  “offers the government a way to aggregate and rationalize […] More

  • Adam Vincent: ThreatConnect Unveils SAP HANA-Based Threat Intell Platform
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    Adam Vincent: ThreatConnect Unveils SAP HANA-Based Threat Intell Platform

    ThreatConnect has partnered with SAP National Security Services to launch its threat intelligence platform based on SAP HANA analytic and in-memory database system. ThreatConnect CEO Adam Vincent said in a statement released Tuesday the company’s ThreatConnect platform that is built on SAP HANA aims to help security operations center staff perform analytics functions and increase computing […] More

  • Lockheed Receives MDA Contract to Install Aegis Ashore Equipment in Poland
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    Lockheed Receives MDA Contract to Install Aegis Ashore Equipment in Poland

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $36.4 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency to integrate, test and install the Aegis Ashore platform onboard a deckhouse and support facility. MDA awarded the fixed-price-incentive contract through a competitive procurement process and will obligate the full contract amount from fiscal 2015 defense procurement funds at the time of […] More

  • DARPA, Lockheed Partner for Optical Systems Research Project
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    DARPA, Lockheed Partner for Optical Systems Research Project

    Lockheed Martin has received a $7.1 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to perform research into optical systems. The Defense Department said Tuesday the research project is part of the Modular Optical Aperture Building Blocks program that aims to explore technologies for the development of ultra-compact light detection and ranging systems. DARPA obligated $2.0 million […] More

  • Mac Curtis: Vencore to Support NAVAIR Cyber Warfare Detachment Program
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    Mac Curtis: Vencore to Support NAVAIR Cyber Warfare Detachment Program

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Vencore a spot on a basic ordering agreement to support the Naval Air Systems Command’s Cyber Warfare Detachment initiative. Vencore said Wednesday it will compete for task orders to research, develop and integrate cyber warfare tools into NAVAIR platforms under the BOA. The agreement will run through June 2018, the company noted. “We are excited […] More

  • Navy Taps Boeing’s Insitu for ScanEagle UAS Support Services to Iraq
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    Navy Taps Boeing’s Insitu for ScanEagle UAS Support Services to Iraq

    Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary has received a potential one-year, $8.3 million delivery order from the U.S. Navy to provide spares, related equipment and other support services for the ScanEagle unmanned aerial system. The Navy awarded the firm-fixed-price delivery contract in support of Iraq’s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance efforts, the Defense Department said Tuesday. Insitu will perform work in Bingen, Washington […] More

  • Bechtel to Continue Nuclear Propulsion Components Production for Navy
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    Bechtel to Continue Nuclear Propulsion Components Production for Navy

    A division of Bechtel will continue to manufacture nuclear propulsion components to the U.S. Navy under a potential $64.3 million contract modification awarded through the Naval Sea Systems Command. The Defense Department said Tuesday the full obligated amount at the time of award is from the service branch’s fiscal 2016 shipbuilding and conversion and “other” procurement funds. Bechtel’s plant […] More

  • SOSi Names Stephen Iwicki as Intelligence Solutions Group VP, Promotes Robert Billeaud to Operations SVP
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    SOSi Names Stephen Iwicki as Intelligence Solutions Group VP, Promotes Robert Billeaud to Operations SVP

    SOS International has named Stephen Iwicki, a former vice president at General Dynamics‘ information technology business, as the new intelligence solutions group vice president following the appointment of Robert Billeaud as senior vice president for operations. SOSi said Tuesday Iwicki will be in charge of a company business unit that holds a potential $150 million contract to support U.S. Army operations in Afghanistan. “He brings […] More

  • Lisa Roger Joins SC3 as Technology Services Division VP; David Page Comments
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    Lisa Roger Joins SC3 as Technology Services Division VP; David Page Comments

    Lisa Roger, former vice president and operations manager for the commercial cybersecurity division of Leidos‘ health and engineering business group, has been named VP of the technology services division at Alexandria, Virginia-based federal technology services contractor SC3. SC3 said Tuesday the 24-year information technology industry veteran will oversee the division’s IT-related programs in her new position. “We are honored to bring Lisa to the SC3 leadership […] More

  • Lockheed, UAE Space Agency, Mubadala Unveil Aerospace Workforce Training Program; Nabil Azar Comments
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    Lockheed, UAE Space Agency, Mubadala Unveil Aerospace Workforce Training Program; Nabil Azar Comments

    Lockheed Martin, the United Arab Emirates’ space agency and investment firm Mubadala have introduced a new development program with the goal to train future aerospace industry leaders in UAE. Generation Space: The Space Fundamentals Training Program will provide training in space foundations to early career professionals across the UAE aerospace industry over the next four months, Lockheed said Wednesday. […] More

  • Florida State University Receives Navy Grant to Lead Development of All-Electric Ship
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    Florida State University Receives Navy Grant to Lead Development of All-Electric Ship

    The Office of Naval Research has awarded Florida State University’s Center for Advanced Power Systems a five-year, $35 million grant to lead a team of scientists and engineers from various universities to help the U.S. Navy build an all-electric ship. The team will work on various energy and machinery aspects such as ship architecture, energy storage and power distribution, Florida […] More

  • Navy Taps PAR Technology Subsidiary for DoD Info Grid Teleport Services
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    Navy Taps PAR Technology Subsidiary for DoD Info Grid Teleport Services

    PAR Technology subsidiary Rome Research Corp. will provide teleport commercial satellite services to the Global Information Grid facility located in Lago Patria, Italy as well as other remote sites under a five-year, $13.6 million contract with the U.S. Navy. The Department of Defense uses GIG to receive, manage, store and relay data to military commanders, policymakers and support personnel during national security and intelligence community missions, PAR […] More