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  • LightCyber Names 3 Members of New Advisory Board; Gonen Fink Comments
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    LightCyber Names 3 Members of New Advisory Board; Gonen Fink Comments

    Behavioral attack detection company LightCyber has formed an advisory board consisting of Timothy Murphy, president of Thomson Reuters’ special services unit; Dave Shackleford, an analyst at SANS Institute; and Amir Orad, CEO of Sisense. LightCyber intends for the advisory board to pursue new market opportunities and advise the company on the technical aspects of the business, LightCyber said Tuesday. […] More

  • Serco to Maintain Dubai Airport Buildings, Infrastructure; Joe Boyle Comments
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    Serco to Maintain Dubai Airport Buildings, Infrastructure; Joe Boyle Comments

    Serco has secured a six-year facilities management contract with Dubai Airports to maintain a large portion of Dubai International Airport’s buildings and infrastructure. Serco said Monday its Middle East subsidiary will manage facilities at terminals 1 and 2 and maintain other cargo and ancillary buildings at the airport. Joe Boyle, managing director of Serco Middle East’s integrated facilities services sector, […] More

  • Peloton Joins Purdue Team to Apply Truck Platooning Tech to Powertrains; Josh Switkes Comments
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    Peloton Joins Purdue Team to Apply Truck Platooning Tech to Powertrains; Josh Switkes Comments

    Peloton Technology has joined an Energy Department-funded program to apply the company’s truck platooning technology and concepts to cloud-connected powertrains as part of an effort to help reduce tractor-trailer fuel use by 20 percent. DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy will invest $5 million in the Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Autonomous On-Road Vehicles program […] More

  • NIST Taps Gemalto for Digital Driver’s License Pilot Program
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    NIST Taps Gemalto for Digital Driver’s License Pilot Program

    Gemalto has received a two-year government grant from the National Institute of Standards and Technology to team up with Colorado, Idaho, Maryland and Washington D.C. on a pilot program for the development of digital driver’s licenses. Gemalto said Monday the grant requires the company to support the jurisdictions on the creation of a smartphone-based credential and the […] More

  • LexisNexis Kicks Off Identity Fraud Awareness Campaign
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    LexisNexis Kicks Off Identity Fraud Awareness Campaign

    LexisNexis Risk Solutions has launched an awareness campaign that aims to help organizations prevent identity fraud. The company said Monday the campaign is part of the International Fraud Awareness Week and led by LexisNexis’ Fraud Defense Network initiative that works to connect industry and government organizations through technology and resources. “While identity fraud has long been an issue, fraudsters […] More

  • Eastern Shipbuilding Group Taps Northrop to Design Coast Guard Cutters’ C4ISR & Machinery Control Systems
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    Eastern Shipbuilding Group Taps Northrop to Design Coast Guard Cutters’ C4ISR & Machinery Control Systems

    Northrop Grumman has secured a contract from Eastern Shipbuilding Group to design C4ISR and machinery control systems on U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter ships for future vessels with updated weapon systems, electronics, range and endurance capacities. Northrop said Monday the design will also have a larger flight deck to accommodate aircraft operations in severe weather and new systems will […] More

  • Accenture Report: 70% of Govt Agencies Eye Emerging Technologies
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    Accenture Report: 70% of Govt Agencies Eye Emerging Technologies

    An Accenture survey says 70 percent of government agencies evaluate the potential of “emerging” technologies such as advanced analytics, Internet of Things, intelligent process automation, video analytics, biometrics, machine learning and natural language processing. Accenture said Tuesday the “Emerging Technologies in Public Service” report explores the adoption of emerging technologies in health, social services, justice, revenue, border services, social security and administrative […] More

  • Vormetric’s Wayne Lewandowski: Cloud Encryption Gateways Can Help Agencies Address Cloud Security Issues
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    Vormetric’s Wayne Lewandowski: Cloud Encryption Gateways Can Help Agencies Address Cloud Security Issues

    Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal operations at Vormetric, has said that cloud encryption gateways can help address security concerns on the delivery of agencies’  sensitive data to third-party cloud service providers. Lewandowksi wrote in guest piece published Monday on GCN he also believes cloud encryption gateways can help drive rapid deployment of cloud technology in the government. […] More

  • Black Box to Update Marine Corps Facility’s Telecom Network Architecture, Systems
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    Black Box to Update Marine Corps Facility’s Telecom Network Architecture, Systems

    The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded Black Box a $17.9 million contract to update and develop telecommunications network architectures and systems at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. Black Box said Monday it will engineer, furnish, deploy, secure and evaluate the base’s communication, network and collaboration infrastructures in an effort to support a high availability unified communications […] More

  • The Office Group Receives DLA Off-The-Shelf Products Supply Contract
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    The Office Group Receives DLA Off-The-Shelf Products Supply Contract

    The Defense Logistics Agency has awarded The Office Group a potential five-year, $40 million contract to provide commercially available off-the-shelf items for the Defense Department Electronic Mall. DoD said Monday the company will perform work under the multiple award schedule contract in Virginia in support of the U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps and federal civilian agencies. […] More

  • FireEye, Thomson Reuters, Pillsbury Form Cyber Risk Mgmt Alliance
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    FireEye, Thomson Reuters, Pillsbury Form Cyber Risk Mgmt Alliance

    Thomson Reuters, FireEye and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman have forged an alliance with the goal to help corporations comply with new regulations and address risks associated with cybersecurity. FireEye said Monday the alliance will offer resources from a multi-pronged approach to cybersecurity risk and assessment and due diligence that merges legal counsel, technical assessments and managed services to aid compliance […] More

  • ICF to Support New York Transportation Corridor Mgmt Project; Anne Choate Comments
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    ICF to Support New York Transportation Corridor Mgmt Project; Anne Choate Comments

    ICF has received nearly $7 million in additional funds to assist the New York Department of Transportation in efforts to manage the state’s corridors in a multimodal manner. The company said Monday it will provide program development, operational, marketing, outreach and customer services to downstate programs and extend these programs across the upstate area. ICF and NYSDOT will also […] More