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  • Galois-Guardtime Federal Team to Validate Integrity Monitoring System for DARPA
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    Galois-Guardtime Federal Team to Validate Integrity Monitoring System for DARPA

    A team comprised of Galois and Guardtime Federal has received a $1.8 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to verify the effectiveness of a blockchain technology-based integrity monitoring system against sophisticated security threats. DARPA asked the companies to jointly test if Guardtime Federal’s Keyless Signature Infrastructure can detect advanced persistent threats hidden within computer networks, Galois said Friday. The goal […] More

  • Cambridge to Extend O&M Support to DISA’s Puerto Rico Integrated Comms Network
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    Cambridge to Extend O&M Support to DISA’s Puerto Rico Integrated Comms Network

    Cambridge International Systems will extend its operations and maintenance services for the Defense Information Systems Agency‘s Puerto Rico Area Wideband Systems integrated network under a subcontract from Global Asset Technologies. The company said Tuesday it will work to sustain PRAWS as the system delivers DISA network services across Puerto Rico, St. Croix, St. Thomas and the U.S. […] More

  • SSM Health, DoD Enter Electronic Patient Record Exchange Agreement
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    SSM Health, DoD Enter Electronic Patient Record Exchange Agreement

    The Defense Department and nonprofit health system SSM Health have partnered to exchange electronic health records of DoD’s active-duty service members, civilian employees, retirees and dependents. The partnership authorizes SSM Health-affiliated care providers in Illinois, Missouri and Oklahoma to access patient records of DoD employees, dependents and retirees while the department can also access SSM Health’s records, the nonprofit said Wednesday. Richard Vaughn, […] More

  • Airbus DS Plans to Design, Build New Set of Earth Observation Satellites
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    Airbus DS Plans to Design, Build New Set of Earth Observation Satellites

    Airbus‘ defense and space segment has unveiled plans to build and launch four optical satellites in an effort to deliver high-resolution imagery of Earth to customers in 2020 and beyond. The company said Thursday the constellation will be designed to perform intraday revisits to any point on Earth, support satellite tasking reactivity and capture millions of square kilometers of images per day. The satellites […] More

  • CSRA’s Larry Prior Shares Views on Federal Govt’s IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity & Cloud Adoption
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    CSRA’s Larry Prior Shares Views on Federal Govt’s IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity & Cloud Adoption

    Larry Prior, CEO of federal technology services contractor CSRA, has said he thinks the next U.S. administration should prioritize efforts to update and repair the federal government’s information technology infrastructure as the country competes in the global economy. Prior told CRN associate editor Jimmy Sheridan in an interview published Thursday that cybersecurity within the federal government […] More

  • Millennium to Provide Systems Engineering, Logistics Support for Navy Sea Warrior Program
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    Millennium to Provide Systems Engineering, Logistics Support for Navy Sea Warrior Program

    Millennium Corp. has secured a five-year, $57 million contract to provide business systems engineering and logistics services in support of the U.S. Navy‘s PMW 240 Sea Warrior program. The company said Wednesday the services are intended to help address the business and readiness challenges of the Navy, the military branch’s sailors and fleet as well as other Defense […] More

  • DHA Taps Accenture Subsidiary to Build Health Provider Credentialing Tool for DoD, VA
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    DHA Taps Accenture Subsidiary to Build Health Provider Credentialing Tool for DoD, VA

    An Accenture subsidiary has received a potential 16-month, $7.8 million contract from the Defense Health Agency to develop, test and field a joint platform designed to support the credentialing process for health care providers between the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs. ASM Research will build a tool based on DoD’s Credentials Quality Assurance System […] More

  • OpenGov Launches Budgeting Process Mgmt Platform for Gov’t Clients; Zac Bookman Comments
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    OpenGov Launches Budgeting Process Mgmt Platform for Gov’t Clients; Zac Bookman Comments

    OpenGov has introduced a technology platform designed to help government users to prepare annual budget plans and spending reports each fiscal year. The company said Wednesday its Budget Builder platform will work to help departmental budget teams submit proposals and supporting data as well as allow managers to review the proposals through a central online system. Agencies can also implement the platform to create interactive […] More

  • Unisys Survey: 69% of Govt Responders Support Digital Govt Program Adoption
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    Unisys Survey: 69% of Govt Responders Support Digital Govt Program Adoption

    A Unisys-sponsored survey has found that 69 percent of federal, state and local government respondents have started or are interested to adopt digital government programs while 31 percent are skeptical of the programs’ benefits. Unisys said Thursday 57 and 35 percent of respondents respectively rated themselves as “very concerned” and “somewhat concerned” over digital government’s potential security risks, while 47 and 41 percent claimed to […] More

  • DHS, Property Drone Consortium to Study UAS Applications for Public Safety Missions
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    DHS, Property Drone Consortium to Study UAS Applications for Public Safety Missions

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with Property Drone Consortium in an effort to advance understanding on unmanned aerial system applications for public safety missions. PDC said Tuesday the agreement will utilize the knowledge and resources of PDC, the DHS S&T First Responders Group and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers. […] More

  • DoD Clears Fort Drum-HealtheConnections EHR Exchange Partnership
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    DoD Clears Fort Drum-HealtheConnections EHR Exchange Partnership

    The Defense Department has approved an electronic health information exchange between Fort Drum’s medical department activity and community healthcare providers in New York. Under the initiative, Fort Drum MEDDAC has integrated the medical electronic records of soldiers and their families into HealtheConnections‘ data exchange system, the Fort Drum Regional Health Planning Organization said Wednesday. The partnership aims to prevent duplicate medical procedures and […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Develop Astronaut Workload Assessment Tech Under Follow-on NASA Contract
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    Charles River Analytics to Develop Astronaut Workload Assessment Tech Under Follow-on NASA Contract

    NASA has awarded Charles River Analytics a two-year, $750,000 follow-on contract to develop a system for the space agency to measure and evaluate astronaut workload. The company said Monday it will collaborate with Massachusetts General Hospital and Brown University to build the Cognitive Assessment and Prediction to Promote Individualized Capability Augmentation and Reduce Decrement system for NASA. Bethany Bracken, a Charles River […] More