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IBM has forged a multi-year alliance with the University of Maryland in Baltimore County in an effort to build the Accelerated Cognitive Cybersecurity Laboratory that will open in the fall of 2016. UMBC’s College of Engineering and Information Technology will house the new laboratory, which will work to discover new cognitive computing applications on cybersecurity using analytics and […] More
Northrop Grumman will carry out a feasibility study to assess the development of a follow-on space vehicle and navigational payloads for the U.S. Air Force’s Global Positioning System III satellite program under a 26-month contract. The company said Tuesday the contract award is based on its proposal to provide the service branch with a mission-specific spacecraft […] More
Science Applications International Corp. will provide simulation and training support services to special operations military personnel and employees of civilian and federal agencies under a potential five-year, $93 million task order with the U.S. Army. SAIC said Monday the software engineering directorate within the service branch’s Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center awarded the labor-hour, fixed-price […] More
The University of Central Florida has won its third consecutive national championship in an annual national college cybersecurity competition that Raytheon acts as title sponsor for. The top 10 college and university teams from regional competitions faced off to protect a network from the attackers with the use of Raytheon tools to detect insider threats, track network activity and […] More
Tom Stanton, director of international business development at Lockheed Martin, will speak at the Joint Precision Fires Future Conference in United Arab Emirates on Nov. 16. Stanton will provide an update on the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launcher during the event set to take place at the Armed Forces Officers Club in Abu Dhabi, […] More
Northrop Grumman has awarded more than $50,000 in scholarships to the winning teams in the CyberPatriot VIII National Finals. The Air Force Association and Northrop recognized the winners of the competition’s open, all-service and middle school divisions during an awards banquet Wednesday in Maryland, the company said Thursday. First-place winners each received $2,000, second-place winners each received $1,500 […] More
Northrop Grumman has announced the high school and middle school teams that will compete at the final round of the 2016 CyberPatriot VIII national competition scheduled on April 12. The finalists comprise 25 high school teams and three middle school teams, which will go head-to-head in the one-day event to protect networks and mobile devices from a professional aggressor team, Northrop said […] More
Lockheed Martin has signed an agreement with the Department of Veterans Affairs in a bid to expand the company’s data security, integration and interoperability roles for the Million Veteran Program. MVP is a voluntary research initiative that seeks to study the association of genes with health and diseases through the creation of a database containing health […] More
Cloudera will hold its fifth annual conference on data analytics in Washington on March 15 to discuss how agencies execute their decisions and reduce costs through the use of data. The 2016 Cloudera Government Forum will convene public and private sector professionals and government officials such as Rep. William Hurd (R-Texas) and White House’s chief […] More
Cox Construction has broken ground on a new training facility for the General Atomics-built MQ-1C Gray Eagle unmanned aerial system in California under a $26 million contract with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, the Army reported Jan. 14. A groundbreaking ceremony took place at the site Jan. 12 with district and service branch officials […] More
Jill Bruning, an executive vice president at AECOM, received a gold award in the Female Executive of the Year category at the 2015 Stevie Awards for Women in Business in recognition of her contributions to the business services sector. She won in the category for female executives who oversee businesses with at least 2,500 employees, […] More
ISC has called on speakers from government, academia and industry to address the company’s annual cybersecurity training event in May at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. The 4th ISC CyberSecureGov will focus on prevention, detection and resilience and speakers will address various issues such as cloud security, threats, critical infrastructure protection, automation, incident […] More
