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  • Elusys Delivers Second Anthrax Treatment Batch to US Strategic National Stockpile Program
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    Elusys Delivers Second Anthrax Treatment Batch to US Strategic National Stockpile Program

    Elusys Therapeutics has delivered a second batch of monoclonal antibody injections designed for inhalation anthrax treatment to the Strategic National Stockpile after the company received $16.35 million in funds as part of a potential $45 million procurement contract from the U.S. government. The company said Tuesday its ANTHIM injection contains a neutralizing toxin that works to help prevent the spread of anthrax and potential tissue damage in the human body. […] More

  • ConnectSolutions Earns SOC-II Certification for Internal Data Security Controls
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    ConnectSolutions Earns SOC-II Certification for Internal Data Security Controls

    ConnectSolutions has achieved Service Organization Control 2 Type II certification for its internal data security controls and practices after a services and systems evaluation by auditing company Armanino. SOC-II works to validate the compliance of the company’s commercial cloud with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants’ Trust Services Principles and Criteria for policies, communications, procedures […] More

  • GSA Seeks Industry Feedback on Redefined Special Item Number for Identity Protection Services
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    GSA Seeks Industry Feedback on Redefined Special Item Number for Identity Protection Services

    The General Services Administration has asked industry to provide feedback on the agency’s plan to redefine a special item number in an effort to make it the official SIN for identity protection and data breach response services on the Professional Services Schedule. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says the redefined SIN 520-20 would require vendors to provide […] More

  • Microsoft Introduces Azure Blueprint for DoD Impact Level 5 ATO
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    Microsoft Introduces Azure Blueprint for DoD Impact Level 5 ATO

    Microsoft has expanded the Azure Blueprint program in efforts to help Defense Department mission owners achieve authorization to operate under the Impact Level 5 baseline. John Molesky writes in a blog post published Monday the new Azure Blueprint release covers a DoD L5 Customer Responsibility Matrix and System Security Plan template to assist personnel who implement mission-level […] More

  • BAE, O2 Partner to Offer ‘Device-to-Cloud’ Security Service
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    BAE, O2 Partner to Offer ‘Device-to-Cloud’ Security Service

    BAE Systems and digital communications firm O2 have partnered to offer a managed  security service for enterprise clients to protect internet-enabled devices against cyber threats. The device-to-cloud cybersecurity offering is designed to support customers’ network and processes as a stand-alone platform or in combination with the O2 Gateway integrated network, BAE said Tuesday. O2 Gateway works to integrate mobile, fixed and Wi-Fi […] More

  • Galois Seeks Submissions to DARPA-Sponsored Software Reverse Engineering Prevention Challenges
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    Galois Seeks Submissions to DARPA-Sponsored Software Reverse Engineering Prevention Challenges

    Galois seeks submissions to two benchmark challenges that work to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency‘s efforts to prevent software reverse engineering. Submissions should describe existing theories or new approaches to identify security vulnerabilities in program obfuscation technology, Galois said Monday. One challenge focuses on order-revealing encryption while the other targets point-function obfuscation, with both security […] More

  • N&C Unveils IBM Watson-Based Regulatory Analytics Platform; Andras Szakal Comments
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    N&C Unveils IBM Watson-Based Regulatory Analytics Platform; Andras Szakal Comments

    N&C has launched an analytics platform intended to help public and private organizations analyze regulatory documents from the Federal Register. Regendus is based on the natural language processing platform of IBM‘s Watson cognitive computing system, N&C said Monday. IBM helped build the Regendus prototype as N&C’s technology partner and the platform was further developed through collaborations with the White House and 23 […] More

  • Telephonics Gets Initial FAA Common Terminal Digitizer Production Orders
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    Telephonics Gets Initial FAA Common Terminal Digitizer Production Orders

    Griffon‘s Telephonics subsidiary has received initial orders to manufacture 34 digitizer systems for the Federal Aviation Administration to process and convert radar signals from legacy radar systems to meet current digital data standards. Telephonics said Tuesday it will produce the Common Terminal Digitizer units to help FAA connect Airport Surveillance Radar, Air Traffic Control Beacon Interrogator and Mode S radar systems to Raytheon-developed Standard […] More

  • BAE Unit to Provide Logistics Support, Incidental Materials for Navy C4I Projects
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    BAE Unit to Provide Logistics Support, Incidental Materials for Navy C4I Projects

    The U.S. Navy has awarded a one-year, $24.4 million contract modification to a business unit of BAE Systems to provide logistics services and incidental materials for the Naval Air Warfare Center‘s aircraft division. BAE’s technology solutions and services unit will perform 568,551 hours of support for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence projects of NAWCAD’s special communications mission solutions division […] More

  • Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. Begins F-16 Modernization Work
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    Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. Begins F-16 Modernization Work

    Taiwan’s state-owned aerospace firm has begun to upgrade four Lockheed Martin-built F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft for the country’s air force, Defense News reported Tuesday. Mike Yeo writes Aerospace Industrial Development Corp. said it expects to complete modernization work on 144 F-16s within six years at its Taichung facility. According to the 2011 foreign military sales request […] More

  • Cherokee Information Services Awarded Defense Stockpile Mgmt System Support Contract
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    Cherokee Information Services Awarded Defense Stockpile Mgmt System Support Contract

    Cherokee Information Services has been awarded a four-year, $33.6 million contract to support the Defense Threat Reduction Agency‘s defense stockpile management system. The company will perform work at Fort Belvoir in Virginia and at Kirkland Air Force Base in New Mexico through Jan. 25, 2021, the Defense Department said Tuesday. DTRA obligated $1.5 million in fiscal 2017 operations […] More

  • DCS to Support Navy Air Vehicle Test & Evaluation
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    DCS to Support Navy Air Vehicle Test & Evaluation

    DCS Corp. has won a one-year, $10.5 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide a range of technical services to the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division’s air vehicle test and evaluation division. The Defense Department said Tuesday the contract covers up to 166,848 man-hours of test engineering, test support, ground and flight test conduct, test […] More