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  • Mitre Vice Chairman Donald Kerr Receives AFCEA Award for Intelligence Community Contributions
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    Mitre Vice Chairman Donald Kerr Receives AFCEA Award for Intelligence Community Contributions

    The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association International has selected Mitre Corp. Vice Chairman Donald Kerr as a recipient of the 2016 Charlie Allen Award for Distinguished Intelligence Service. AFCEA said Wednesday the award recognizes senior-level intelligence leaders whose contributions have supported the intelligence community. Kerr’s career includes roles as principal deputy national intelligence director, director of the National Reconnaissance Office and assistant […] More

  • CIADM Lands HHS Anthrax Vaccine Development Support Task Order
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    CIADM Lands HHS Anthrax Vaccine Development Support Task Order

    The Centers for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing has received an 18-month, $10.49 million task order from the Department of Health and Human Services to help the agency develop a second-generation anthrax vaccine. CIADM is located at Texas A&M University in College Station will support development of Altimmune‘s NasoShield anthrax vaccine candidate that is meant to be […] More

  • EPA Selects Abt for Chemical Pollution Economic Analysis, Modeling Services
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    EPA Selects Abt for Chemical Pollution Economic Analysis, Modeling Services

    The U.S. Environment Protection Agency has awarded Abt Associates a five-year, $17 million contract to perform economic analysis and computer modeling work in an effort to help the EPA study and aim to mitigate chemical pollution. Abt aims to help the EPA determine the risks chemical releases from industrial factories pose and provide information on pollution prevention, outreach and meeting support for voluntary […] More

  • CSG to Provide Quality Assurance for Oregon DMV Business Transformation Project
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    CSG to Provide Quality Assurance for Oregon DMV Business Transformation Project

    CSG Government Solutions has received a contract to provide quality assurance support for the Oregon Transportation Department’s Driver and Motor Vehicle Service Transformation program. The company will perform quality planning and control as well as risk assessment services in support of Oregon DMV’s business transformation efforts, CSG said Wednesday. Patti Garofalo, director of CSG’s motor vehicle practice, […] More

  • Bernie Guerry: General Dynamics’ IT Unit Eyes Industrial Control Tech Security Market Entry
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    Bernie Guerry: General Dynamics’ IT Unit Eyes Industrial Control Tech Security Market Entry

    General Dynamics plans to offer a cyber monitoring service to industrial control system operators through the company’s information technology business unit as part of a push to expand into the ICS market. Bernie Guerry, senior vice president of the intelligence solutions division in General Dynamics’ IT unit, said Tuesday the company aims to bring its military-grade cybersecurity services into the commercial sector in […] More

  • VMware’s Bill Rowan: Hybrid Cloud Facilitates Workload, Application Mgmt Flexibility for Agencies
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    VMware’s Bill Rowan: Hybrid Cloud Facilitates Workload, Application Mgmt Flexibility for Agencies

    Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, has said federal agencies should work to converge private and off-premises cloud platforms through hybrid clouds as they adopt the as-a-service business model. Rowan wrote in an article published in the March/April 2016 issue of GCN magazine that a hybrid cloud is designed to provide agencies with […] More

  • LGS Innovations to Build Optical Intersatellite Comm Terminals for DARPA; Kevin Kelly Comments
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    LGS Innovations to Build Optical Intersatellite Comm Terminals for DARPA; Kevin Kelly Comments

    LGS Innovations has been selected to develop optical communication terminals meant to facilitate communication between two micro-satellites of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in low-Earth orbit. LGS will build a pair of lightweight, low-power laser communication terminals that DARPA plans to launch on the agency’s small satellites as part of the Inter-Satellite Communication Link initiative, the company said Wednesday. “Small satellites […] More

  • Exostar Integrates Seclore’s Digital Rights Management Tech Into Collaboration Platform
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    Exostar Integrates Seclore’s Digital Rights Management Tech Into Collaboration Platform

    Exostar has integrated Seclore‘s Enterprise Digital Rights Management system into a collaboration platform that works to provide data protection for defense contractors to support compliance with the Defense Department‘s Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement provisions. Exostar said Wednesday the collaboration platform is designed to provide document-centric protection for users of Exostar’s ForumPass cloud-based, software-as-a-service offering. The company added the newly incorporated system works to […] More

  • NexDefense, General Dynamics IT Unit Form Industrial Control System Cyber Partnership
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    NexDefense, General Dynamics IT Unit Form Industrial Control System Cyber Partnership

    NexDefense has agreed to offer its industrial network security monitoring and anomaly detection system to General Dynamics’ information technology business unit under a new collaboration pact between both organizations. The commercial cyber services organization within General Dynamics’ IT unit will utilize NexDefense’s Sophia product to expand cybersecurity monitoring services into the industrial control system market, NexDefense said Tuesday. “Critical […] More

  • Colorado DOT Picks AECOM-Flatiron Team to Work on C-470 Tolled Express Lane Project
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    Colorado DOT Picks AECOM-Flatiron Team to Work on C-470 Tolled Express Lane Project

    A team composed of AECOM and Flatiron Construction has been selected by the Colorado Department of Transportation to design and construct the C-470 highway’s express lanes in Denver’s south metro area as part of a $215 million project. AECOM said Tuesday Colorado DOT held a bidding process for the project on March 30 and selected […] More

  • CenturyLink to Offer Colocation, Cloud & Security Services via G2G Marketplace
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    CenturyLink to Offer Colocation, Cloud & Security Services via G2G Marketplace

    CenturyLink will offer its colocation, cloud and security services to state and local government agencies through the G2G Marketplace online procurement portal. G2G Marketplace works to provide technology services to agencies through its website, which can also facilitate the purchase of technology and professional services with pre-negotiated blanket purchase agreements, CenturyLink said Tuesday. Rick Buyens, CenturyLink regional sales vice president, said […] More

  • Belden Updates Industrial Security Appliance Offering; Rekha Shenoy Comments
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    Belden Updates Industrial Security Appliance Offering; Rekha Shenoy Comments

    Belden has updated the company’s industrial security appliance offering to include support for energy-specific communication protocols meant to help guard power generation and transmission facilities against cyber threats. The Tofino Xenon platform works to counter malicious and unauthorized access, increase supervisory control and data acquisition system and secure industrial control system devices, Belden said Tuesday. “Protecting the critical infrastructure that drives […] More