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  • Oshkosh Receives Defense Security Service’s Industrial Security Achievement Award
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    Oshkosh Receives Defense Security Service’s Industrial Security Achievement Award

    Oshkosh Corporation has received the 2016 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award from the Defense Department‘s Defense Security Service for the company’s facility in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oshkosh is among the 42 cleared facilities that received the award for industrial security excellence during the annual National Classification Management Society seminar for the Society of Industrial Security Professionals in Nashville, […] More

  • SAIC, Huntsville City Schools Launch Cyber Academy; John Gully Comments
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    SAIC, Huntsville City Schools Launch Cyber Academy; John Gully Comments

    Science Applications International Corp. and the Huntsville, Alabama public school district have jointly launched a cyber educational program under a three-year, $300,000 commitment in an effort to help foster future cyber workers. SAIC and the school system introduced the Cyber Academy initiative at the National Cyber Summit and company cyber professionals will supply cyber curriculum […] More

  • Commerce Dept Names CompTIA’s David Logsdon to Aerospace Equipment Int’l Trade Advisory Committee
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    Commerce Dept Names CompTIA’s David Logsdon to Aerospace Equipment Int’l Trade Advisory Committee

    David Logsdon, CompTIA‘s Space Enterprise Council senior director, has joined the Commerce Department‘s International Trade Advisory Committee on Aerospace Equipment and will serve through the committee’s four-year charter term. The ITAC on Aerospace Equipment works to provide advisory support to the secretary of commerce and the U.S. trade representative on market access, trade barriers and other regional […] More

  • Cisco’s Will Ash: Integration, Consolidation & Automation Key to DHS’ Continuous Monitoring Standards
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    Cisco’s Will Ash: Integration, Consolidation & Automation Key to DHS’ Continuous Monitoring Standards

    Will Ash, Cisco senior director for U.S. public sector security sales, has said integration, consolidation and automation are key to meet the Department of Homeland Security‘s requirements for the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. Ash wrote in a blog post published Monday that agencies will need technology partners to help meet the program’s continuous monitoring requirements and drive changes such as optimized response […] More

  • Raytheon’s David Wajsgras: Early Tech Educational Programs Key to Build Up Cybersecurity Workforce
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    Raytheon’s David Wajsgras: Early Tech Educational Programs Key to Build Up Cybersecurity Workforce

    David Wajsgras, president of the intelligence, information and services segment at Raytheon, has charted ways to foster a cybersecurity workforce in an effort to help maintain global security and economic stability. Wajsgras wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on U.S. News that he believes global security will rely on efforts to draw interest in science, technology, engineering […] More

  • Aquilent Obtains AWS Managed Service Partner Designation; David Fout Comments
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    Aquilent Obtains AWS Managed Service Partner Designation; David Fout Comments

    Amazon Web Services has accepted Aquilent to an AWS-led network of technology partners with background in cloud infrastructure and application migration. Aquilent provides digital services, DevOps, agile development and cloud services to the federal government and continues to offer cloud products to customers as a member of AWS’ Managed Service Program, Aquilent said Wednesday. The program is intended […] More

  • Commerce Dept Reuses FedRAMP Authorizations for AWS GovCloud, East/West Systems
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    Commerce Dept Reuses FedRAMP Authorizations for AWS GovCloud, East/West Systems

    The Commerce Department has approved two Amazon Web Services cloud computing platforms for use in the agency’s big data projects under a pair of existing authority-to-operate designations. Commerce Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper and Deputy Chief Data Officer Tyrone Grandison said Wednesday AWS GovCloud and AWS East/West hold ATOs under the government-wide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and the department has determined […] More

  • SolveBio to Continue Variant Explorer System Development Through NIH Grant
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    SolveBio to Continue Variant Explorer System Development Through NIH Grant

    The National Institute of General Medical Sciences has awarded SolveBio a phase one Small Business Innovation Research Grant to continue development work on a genetic variation analysis and visualization system. SolveBio said Tuesday it built Variant Explorer as a cloud-based data integration and visualization system designed to help medical professionals such as clinical geneticists, molecular pathologists and scientists conduct clinical interpretation of […] More

  • A2LA Accredits Sunera as Third-Party Cloud Assessor For FedRAMP
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    A2LA Accredits Sunera as Third-Party Cloud Assessor For FedRAMP

    Sunera has been accredited by the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation to serve as a third-party assessment organization under the federal government’s cloud computing program. The company said Tuesday cloud service providers that aim to obtain Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification can now employ the help of Sunera’s subject matter experts and RMS compliance platform. “With so much overlap among security controls, […] More

  • Army Taps STG for NETCOM Cybersecurity Support Contract; Paul Fernandes Comments
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    Army Taps STG for NETCOM Cybersecurity Support Contract; Paul Fernandes Comments

    STG Group has received a potential four-year, $7 million contract from the U.S. Army to provide cybersecurity support services for the service branch’s Network Enterprise Technology Command. Joe Nicholas, senior vice president and sector lead for cybersecurity and secure information systems at STG, will be in charge of the company’s business with NETCOM, the company […] More

  • Sikorsky to Support Turkey’s $3.5B T70 Utility Helicopter Production Program
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    Sikorsky to Support Turkey’s $3.5B T70 Utility Helicopter Production Program

    Turkey’s undersecretariat for defense industries has selected five aerospace companies to manufacture and deliver T70 helicopters as part of the estimated $3.5 billion TUHP-Turkish Utility Helicopter Program. Turkish Aerospace Industries will act as the prime contractor on the program and collaborate with Sikorsky Aircraft as the project’s major subcontractor as well as with local companies Aselsan, TEI and Alp Aviation, TAI said Tuesday. The […] More

  • IARPA Releases R&D Sources Sought Notice for Undersea Drone Program
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    IARPA Releases R&D Sources Sought Notice for Undersea Drone Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has released a research-and-development sources sought notice that seeks to obtain information from industry on potential support to help build an undersea drone. IARPA says it unveiled the UnderWatch notice seeks information on design, development, test, and demonstration of autonomous underwater vehicles; as well as sensing systems for automated detection, classification and localization […] More