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  • Raytheon Awards $2M System Hardware Contract to OSI Systems; Deepak Chopra Comments
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    Raytheon Awards $2M System Hardware Contract to OSI Systems; Deepak Chopra Comments

    OSI Systems’ optoelectronics division has received a potential $2 million contract to provide software and system hardware components for Raytheon. OSI  said Friday Raytheon will use the components to create an electronic toll collection system for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. “We are excited to provide our sensor technology and software to support Raytheon’s efforts with […] More

  • CACI Secures SEC Investigation Support Task Orders
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    CACI Secures SEC Investigation Support Task Orders

    CACI International has received two task orders worth $29.8 million combined to provide investigation support and legal assistance services for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The five-year contracts cover work for SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, Division of Enforcement and Office of the Investor Advocate, the company said Thursday. CACI said the task orders fall […] More

  • Raj Samani: Honeywell-Intel Security Alliance Seeks to Boost ‘Industrial Internet of Things’ Via Cyber Threat Defense
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    Raj Samani: Honeywell-Intel Security Alliance Seeks to Boost ‘Industrial Internet of Things’ Via Cyber Threat Defense

    Honeywell Process Solutions and Intel Security have agreed to combine their platforms in an effort to help commercial clients protect their data infrastructure and ‘Industrial Internet of Things’-based devices from malware and potential cyber attacks. The partnership covers the integration of Intel Security’s McAfee Application Whitelisting and McAfee Device Control offerings with Honeywell’s network security platform […] More

  • Harris Subjects Vehicular Tactical Radios to Limited User Test; George Helm Comments
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    Harris Subjects Vehicular Tactical Radios to Limited User Test; George Helm Comments

    Harris Corp. has conducted a limited user test of its Mid-tier Networking Vehicular Radio during the U.S. Army’s Network Integration Evaluation 15.3 operation at Fort Bliss in Texas. The company said Thursday it sought to validate the video, voice and data sharing capability of MNVR among soldiers across company, battalion and brigade levels and verify network routing configurations in […] More

  • SRI International’s Online Game Seeks to Verify Software; John Murray Comments
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    SRI International’s Online Game Seeks to Verify Software; John Murray Comments

    SRI International has developed an online game as part of a government program that intends to verify software to ensure that it lacks errors and security vulnerabilities. The company said Tuesday it created Binary Fission with the University of California in Santa Cruz and the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Crowd-Sourced Formal Verification initiative of the Defense […] More

  • Red Hat, Samsung to Develop Mobile Platforms for Commercial Clients
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    Red Hat, Samsung to Develop Mobile Platforms for Commercial Clients

    Red Hat and Samsung have formed a partnership to develop mobile platforms for companies to manage business information and operations. Red Hat said Tuesday it will work with Samsung to develop mobile applications that can be configured for a company’s back-end systems and can operate on Android and other mobile operating systems through the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform. […] More

  • IBM-Box Alliance Seeks to Facilitate Cloud-Based Enterprise Collaboration
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    IBM-Box Alliance Seeks to Facilitate Cloud-Based Enterprise Collaboration

    IBM and cloud storage firm Box have formed an alliance to combine their services and offerings in an effort to help enterprises manage data workloads and collaborate with other businesses in a cloud environment. IBM said Wednesday it will integrate Box’s cloud-based content collaboration tool with Watson Analytics, IBM Verse business email platform and IBM Connections social […] More

  • Jacobs Gets UK Carbon Capture, Storage Program Technical Consulting Contract; Bob Duff Comments
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    Jacobs Gets UK Carbon Capture, Storage Program Technical Consulting Contract; Bob Duff Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group’s consultancy business has received a two-year contract from a U.K. government agency to provide technical consulting services for a $1.55 billion program to create commercial-scale carbon capture and storage projects. Jacobs said Tuesday the contract from the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change covers the assessment of project risks, design deliverables and […] More

  • Northrop to Perform Targeting Pod Upgrades Aboard F-16 Jets
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    Northrop to Perform Targeting Pod Upgrades Aboard F-16 Jets

    Northrop Grumman has won contracts worth $74 million to upgrade the targeting pods onboard the F-16 multirole fighter aircraft of the Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard. The company said Monday the upgrade work intends to equip the F-16 jets with the AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening G4 targeting and surveillance system’s digital video processing functions to […] More

  • Fidelis-Ponemon Institute Survey Finds Cyber Risk Awareness Gap Between IT Professionals, Board Members
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    Fidelis-Ponemon Institute Survey Finds Cyber Risk Awareness Gap Between IT Professionals, Board Members

    A new survey commissioned by Fidelis Cybersecurity says gaps exist between information technology professionals and board members in terms of cybersecurity knowledge and awareness of data breach incidents within their organizations. The company said Tuesday the Defining the Gap: The Cybersecurity Governance Survey showed that 41 percent of board member respondents said they lack cybersecurity knowledge and […] More

  • Boeing Completes C-17 Training Simulator Delivery to U.S. Air Force
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    Boeing Completes C-17 Training Simulator Delivery to U.S. Air Force

    Boeing has turned over its last training simulator for the C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Tuesday the military branch received the 28th C-17 aircrew simulator at Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base in West Virginia. “Receiving our simulator avoids sending our local crews on temporary duty […] More

  • BAE Systems Unveils Cloud-Based Platforms in Canada
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    BAE Systems Unveils Cloud-Based Platforms in Canada

    BAE Systems has introduced several cloud-based platforms designed to help businesses based in Canada protect their data infrastructure from potential cyber attacks. The company said Tuesday the Zero Day Prevention offering under its Email Protection Services portfolio aims to protect clients from unknown attacks by screening cloud-based emails for malware and malicious content before they […] More