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  • Informatica Joins New AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Ronen Schwartz Comments
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    Informatica Joins New AWS Public Sector Partner Program; Ronen Schwartz Comments

    Informatica has joined Amazon Web Services‘ new partner program to provide data management services to public sector customers through connected data in AWS’ cloud environment. Amazon Web Services launched the Public Sector Partner Program at the company’s AWS re:Invent 2016 event and Informatica will collaborate with the cloud provider to deliver hybrid data management platform configured for […] More

  • General Atomics Conducts Super Hornet Fly-In Recovery With Arresting Gear System
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    General Atomics Conducts Super Hornet Fly-In Recovery With Arresting Gear System

    General Atomics’ electromagnetic systems business has conducted the first fly-in aircraft recovery of an F/A-18E Super Hornet with the use of the company’s Advanced Arresting Gear system to verify AAG’s performance. The fly-in aircraft recovery operation performed at the Runway Arrested Landing Site at Joint base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey Oct. 13 comes on the […] More

  • American Systems to Provide Engineering Services to DoD’s Developmental, Test & Evaluation Org
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    American Systems to Provide Engineering Services to DoD’s Developmental, Test & Evaluation Org

    American Systems will provide warfare area staff specialists to the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation under a $5.7 million contract from the Washington Headquarters Services. The Defense Department said Thursday American Systems will perform professional engineering services in support of the Major Defense Acquisition Program/Major Automated Information System initiatives. Work will […] More

  • Palo Alto Networks Integrates Firewall Product With AWS Load Balancer, Auto-Scaling Platforms
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    Palo Alto Networks Integrates Firewall Product With AWS Load Balancer, Auto-Scaling Platforms

    Palo Alto Networks has integrated its virtualized firewalls with the auto scaling and elastic load balancing platforms of Amazon Web Services in an effort to help joint customers secure their workloads. The companies seek to help clients automatically scale cyber breach prevention tools as their cloud-based workloads fluctuate through the use of VM-Series firewalls in conjunction with AWS Lambda, CloudFormation Templates and Amazon CloudWatch services, Palo […] More

  • Iridium Sets Satellite Constellation NEXT Launch Date for Dec. 16; Matt Desch Comments
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    Iridium Sets Satellite Constellation NEXT Launch Date for Dec. 16; Matt Desch Comments

    Iridium Communications has scheduled the launch of its next-generation global satellite constellation Iridium NEXT for Dec. 16 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will carry 10 Iridium NEXT satellites to low-Earth orbit to replace an existing commercial satellite network in space, Iridium said Thursday. The planned launch announcement follows […] More

  • OGSystems, Narrative Science Partner on New Location-Based Intell Offering; Omar Balkissoon Comments
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    OGSystems, Narrative Science Partner on New Location-Based Intell Offering; Omar Balkissoon Comments

    OGSystems and natural language generation technology provider Narrative Science have teamed up to develop a new location-based intelligence platform offering for enterprise customers. The BlueGlass platform integrates remote sensing, big data and cognitive analytics features to help clients gain situational insights in real time through anomaly alerting and activity reports about potential risks, OGSystems said Wednesday. […] More

  • Lockheed Taps Textron for F-35 Electronic Warfare Simulation Tests; Steve Mensh Comments
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    Lockheed Taps Textron for F-35 Electronic Warfare Simulation Tests; Steve Mensh Comments

    Lockheed Martin has selected Textron’s electronic systems business unit to provide threat simulation systems for electronic warfare tests on the F-35 fighter jet. Lockheed will use Textron’s Advanced Architecture Phase Amplitude and Time Simulator system to develop and confirm aircraft software requirements for the F-35, Textron said Wednesday Textron will manufacture the simulation system at the F-35 […] More

  • Leonardo-Finmeccanica Secures Integrated System, Maritime Security Contract from Congo
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    Leonardo-Finmeccanica Secures Integrated System, Maritime Security Contract from Congo

    Leonardo-Finmeccanica has received a $31.8 million contract to deploy an integrated system for maritime security at the port of Pointe Noire in the Republic of Congo. The maritime and land-based security systems will use radar and electro-optical sensors, communications systems, logistics management and port operations systems, Leonardo said Friday. Leonardo will also provide construction of new […] More

  • CA Technologies Unveils New Behavior Analytics, ID Mgmt Offerings; Mordecai Rosen Comments
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    CA Technologies Unveils New Behavior Analytics, ID Mgmt Offerings; Mordecai Rosen Comments

    CA Technologies has introduced new offerings for behavior analytics and identity and access management applications in an effort to help clients detect threats and avoid a breach. The CA Threat Analytics tool is a machine learning-based threat detection and breach prevention system designed to integrate with CA’s Privileged Access Manager, the company said Nov. 16. CA […] More

  • IBM Opens Commercial Cyber Range, Expands Incident Response Network; Marc van Zadelhoff Comments
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    IBM Opens Commercial Cyber Range, Expands Incident Response Network; Marc van Zadelhoff Comments

    IBM‘s security business has opened a physical cyber range in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the commercial sector and expanded the unit’s incident response network as part of a $200 million investment IBM announced in 2016. The company said Nov. 16 it opened a new global security headquarters in Cambridge, where the IBM X-Force Command cyber range is located to […] More

  • CACI Lands $79M Army Intell Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI Lands $79M Army Intell Systems Engineering Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    The U.S. Army has awarded CACI International a three-year, $79 million task order to provide intelligence systems engineering support for the military branch’s intelligence and information warfare directorate. CACI said Tuesday it will work to mature technologies in order to fulfill the Army’s intelligence and electronic warfare requirements in collaboration with academia. Under the task order, the company and […] More