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A report by Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies has found that 71 percent of information technology professionals believe the shortage of cybersecurity professionals make business organizations more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Intel Security said Wednesday it commissioned technology market research firm Vanson Bourne in May to conduct online interviews with 775 […] More
Boeing and engineering company Bastion Technologies have signed up for NASA‘s mentor-protege program with the goal to build up the latter company’s aerospace market expertise. The two companies aim to exchange manufacturing, quality, marketing and business development strategies under an agreement that will run for 18 months, Boeing said Tuesday. Bastion President Jorge Hernandez said the company’s partnership with Boeing […] More
Q.E.D. Systems has received a potential $30.1 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide non-nuclear production trade touch labor services onboard the Virginia-class and Los Angeles-class submarines. The company will supply non-nuclear welders, pipefitters, firewatchers, shipwrights, shipfitters, painters, electricians, weight handlers and outside machinists under the contract, the Defense Department said Tuesday. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a […] More
The U.S. Navy has approved a countermeasure technology Lockheed Martin developed to help protect U.S. and coalition forces against improvised explosive devices. Lockheed said Tuesday its Symphony Block 40 platform is mounted on vehicles and designed to jam electronic trigger signals of radio-controlled IED threats. The company integrated an open architecture into the counter-IED system to provide continuous threat spectrum coverage for military users. Joe Ottaviano, […] More
Cohesity has achieved the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Federal Information Processing Standards 140-2 certification for the company’s encryption module. The company said Tuesday the certification allows government agencies to use Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary storage offering to handle sensitive information. Cohesity added security tests of the encryption module took place part of Cohesity’s storage platform and on the same hardware that the […] More
Carahsoft Technology has included Virtustream‘s suite of enterprise-grade cloud software products and services on three contracting vehicles managed by the General Services Administration, NASA and the U.S. Army. Carahsoft said Tuesday it will begin to market Virtustream offerings to agencies through the GSA Schedule as well as NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V and the Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions–Software vehicles. “We are excited to […] More
The Northrop Grumman-built Global Hawk unmanned aircraft system has logged 200,000 flight hours. The company said Tuesday Global Hawks operated by the U.S. Air Force recorded 88 percent of the total flight hours while UAVs run by NASA, U.S. Navy and Germany logged the remaining flight hours. “This milestone is especially meaningful as it comes just […] More
Accutype Services has received certification to deliver medical transcription services to the federal government under the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 36 contract. The woman-owned company said Tuesday its medical transcription offering is registered on the GSA Advantage electronic ordering system. Deborah Walton, Accutype Services operations manager, said the contract works to open new markets for the company and expand its services beyond the […] More
Baldwin Aviation will facilitate client information exchange through a Federal Aviation Administration-run flight safety data sharing system under an agreement with Mitre and FAA. The South Carolina-based software company said Monday the executive board of FAA’s Aviation Safety Information Analysis and Sharing program approved a protocol that allows Baldwin Aviation customers to share relevant data through the company. “Based on Baldwin’s Master MOU, our […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. and XTAR have demonstrated a high-throughput intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance service on a C-130 hatch with the use of the former company’s AIRLINK X-1 antenna. AIRLINK X-1 was certified to access XTAR satellites after a terminal sent 4.5 megabits per second of data through the XTAR-LANT satellite during the demonstration that occurred […] More
Decision Sciences International Corp. has received a $5.26 million contract from the Defense Department‘s Combating Terrorism Technical Support Office to provide and deploy a system built to detect contraband and weapons.. The company said Tuesday the Multi-Mode Passive Detection System Gen 3 platform works to automatically scan vehicles, cargo containers and other vehicles to identify and discover shielded and […] More
Sierra Nevada Corp. has received approval from NASA for its strategy to launch and send the Dream Chaser spacecraft’s cargo system to the International Space Station. The approval marks the completion of the second integration certification phase for the space vehicle that will perform at least six cargo flights to the ISS from 2019 through […] More
