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  • PaxVax, Army Launch Phase I Clinical Trials of Updated Adenovirus Vaccine
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    PaxVax, Army Launch Phase I Clinical Trials of Updated Adenovirus Vaccine

    PaxVax has begun the initial phase of clinical trials of an updated version of a three-decade-old vaccine against Adenovirus Serotypes 4 and 7 that cause acute respiratory distress that leads to severe pneumonia and hospitalization and occurs in military training centers. The company said Monday it has collaborated with the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Development […] More

  • DARPA Eyes June Release of Draft RFP for $850M Technical, Analytical Support IDIQ
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    DARPA Eyes June Release of Draft RFP for $850M Technical, Analytical Support IDIQ

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency aims to release a draft request for proposals on a potential five-year, $850 million contract for analytical and technical support services by early June. DARPA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it also plans to conduct one-on-one meetings with potential vendors in mid-June before it issues the final RFP for the multiple-award, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

  • ThreatMetrix: 130M Fraud Attacks Detected in Q1 2017
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    ThreatMetrix: 130M Fraud Attacks Detected in Q1 2017

    A new ThreatMetrix report says the security company has uncovered 130 million fraudulent attacks from January to March and found that the volume of digital wallet transactions increased 80 percent on a year-over-year basis. ThreatMetrix said Thursday it evaluated cyber crimes that the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network detected during the first quarter of 2017 and found that the number […] More

  • Maximus’ Tom Naughton: Agencies Should Adopt AI-Based Tools to Facilitate Citizen Engagement
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    Maximus’ Tom Naughton: Agencies Should Adopt AI-Based Tools to Facilitate Citizen Engagement

    Tom Naughton, president of citizen services at Maximus’ federal business, has said government agencies should work to build up citizen engagement through the implementation of new customer service platforms that leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning. Naughton wrote in a Washington Technology commentary published Friday that agencies should provide citizens with self-service tools and customer […] More

  • VMware, Oracle Forge Mobile Business Application Management Partnership
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    VMware, Oracle Forge Mobile Business Application Management Partnership

    VMware and Oracle have agreed to streamline management and ensure security of Oracle’s portfolio of mobile business applications. Enterprise organizations with business apps built on the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service offering can leverage VMware’s AirWatch and Workspace ONE mobility management platforms under the partnership, Oracle said Thursday. VMware AirWatch works to help users manage and protect […] More

  • Leidos CEO Roger Krone: Slow Pace of Govt Appointments Delays Procurement Process
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    Leidos CEO Roger Krone: Slow Pace of Govt Appointments Delays Procurement Process

    Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, has said the slow pace of leadership appointments at the Defense Department and other federal agencies has pushed back acquisition decisions and deadlines, Inside Defense reported Thursday. Krone told analysts during the fiscal 2017 first-quarter earnings call that the company has “seen more slowness than we expected in […] More

  • DOE Taps SteelCloud to Provide Security Compliance Automation Tool
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    DOE Taps SteelCloud to Provide Security Compliance Automation Tool

    SteelCloud has received a contract from the Energy Department to provide a remediation platform designed to automate compliance of applications and deployed data infrastructure with the Security Technical Implementation Guide. The company said Thursday ConfigOS works to scan endpoint platforms against STIG controls within a minute and remediate endpoints within 90 seconds. Brian Hajost, SteelCloud president and CEO, […] More

  • AT&T to Migrate Databases, Apps to Oracle Cloud
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    AT&T to Migrate Databases, Apps to Oracle Cloud

    AT&T has agreed with Oracle to migrate thousands of databases and related applications workloads to the latter’s cloud platforms. Oracle said Thursday the strategic agreement with AT&T covers its portfolio of cloud offerings that include platform-as-a-service, infrastructure-as-a-service, software-as-a-service and database-as-a-service. AT&T will also integrate its big data and machine learning capabilities with Oracle’s Field Service […] More

  • NASA Seeks Info on Payload Delivery Support Sources for Lunar Surface Missions
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    NASA Seeks Info on Payload Delivery Support Sources for Lunar Surface Missions

    NASA has begun its search for potential contractors that can help the agency deliver experiments, instruments and other payloads to the moon. The agency said in a FedBizOpps notice published Monday it will use the responses to plan for potential launch and payload opportunities in an effort to meet lunar exploration and technology demonstration objectives as […] More

  • F5 Networks to Move Seattle HQ to New Downtown Tower
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    F5 Networks to Move Seattle HQ to New Downtown Tower

    F5 Networks will relocate from a corporate building at Elliott Avenue West to a 516,000-square-foot office space in downtown Seattle in early 2019. The company said Wednesday the new leased space at 801 Fifth Avenue will be called F5 Tower and was selected after the firm evaluated the location against several criteria such as its proximity to […] More

  • SAIC Lands Marine Corps Cyber Support Task Order; Tom Watson Comments
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    SAIC Lands Marine Corps Cyber Support Task Order; Tom Watson Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential three-year, $27 million task order to provide cybersecurity services for the U.S. Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command and subordinate units. SAIC said Wednesday the task order awarded by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific covers cyber protection services for MARFORCYBER and related commands in the areas […] More