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  • Army Picks Metova for Cyber Battle Lab Experimentation Support; John Adams Comments
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    Army Picks Metova for Cyber Battle Lab Experimentation Support; John Adams Comments

    Metova, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, has received a potential $45 million contract to provide experimentation support services for electronic and cyber warfare programs of the U.S. Army’s Cyber Battle Lab. The company said Thursday the Army Contracting Command awarded the firm-fixed-price contract through a competitive procurement with nine companies involved. “Metova is honored to have the opportunity […] More

  • QTS Gets Federal Info Security Mgmt Authorization; Oliver Schmidt Comments
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    QTS Gets Federal Info Security Mgmt Authorization; Oliver Schmidt Comments

    QTS Realty Trust has earned authorization to operate its Richmond and Atlanta-Metro data centers under security requirements based on the Federal Information Security Management Act. Third party assessment organization Veris Group conducted the tests for QTS’ data center and colocation services following the latest version of FISMA, QTS said Thursday. “In this time of increased […] More

  • Motorola Solutions Offers Cybersecurity Professional Services to Govt, Public Safety Sector
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    Motorola Solutions Offers Cybersecurity Professional Services to Govt, Public Safety Sector

    Motorola Solutions has unveiled its new Cybersecurity Professional Services offering that works to help government and public safety customers address cyber risks and respond to attacks as they perform their missions. The company said Thursday the service can supplement network security monitoring and other intrusion prevention measures to secure communications and information sharing at organizations. “Many organizations believe their […] More

  • Lockheed Develops Aircraft Laser Turret System; Doug Graham Comments
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    Lockheed Develops Aircraft Laser Turret System; Doug Graham Comments

    Lockheed Martin has helped build a laser turret system for high-speed aircraft under a collaborative project between the company, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The company said Thursday its Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control turret was integrated onto a business jet during 2014 and 2015 flight tests. The […] More

  • Verizon Rolls Out Networking Service for Public Sector Cloud Adopters; Michael Maiorana Comments
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    Verizon Rolls Out Networking Service for Public Sector Cloud Adopters; Michael Maiorana Comments

    Verizon has launched a networking service to help federal agencies and other public sector organizations link and manage their workloads across cloud computing platforms and data centers. The Secure Cloud Interconnect works to provide users a private Internet connection in order to access information and applications stored in data centers and private, public and hybrid cloud platforms, Verizon said Wednesday. […] More

  • Raytheon Uses RC Truck in Anti-Hacking Tech Demo
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    Raytheon Uses RC Truck in Anti-Hacking Tech Demo

    Raytheon has used a 1:16th scale radio-controlled truck to demonstrate an anti-hacking technology during the 2015 Association of the U.S. Army meeting and exhibition. Engineers from Raytheon’s Cyber Operations and Development Evaluation hub wanted to show how hackers could tamper Internet-connected systems through the demonstration, the company said Oct. 7. “In today’s Internet of Things, […] More

  • Charles River Analytics to Help Train Army Medics Based on Cognitive Load
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    Charles River Analytics to Help Train Army Medics Based on Cognitive Load

    Charles River Analytics will provide its Monitoring, Extracting and Decoding Indicators of Cognitive Load technology to help the U.S. Army train military medical personnel under a 30-month, $1 million contract. The company said Tuesday the MEDIC system utilizes physiological, neurophysiological and behavioral sensors to determine the cognitive performance of trainees beyond observable behaviors. “We have completed the initial design and testing of […] More

  • Amazon Web Services Debuts New Data Transfer Offering
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    Amazon Web Services Debuts New Data Transfer Offering

    Amazon Web Services has introduced a fresh data transport tool for customers designed to transfer large volumes of data using secure appliances. AWS Import/Export Snowball works to transport up to 50 terabytes of data into and out of AWS and protect the transfer process with secure enclosures, 256-bit encryption and a trusted platform module, AWS […] More

  • Northrop Starts Construction on UAS Facility in North Dakota; Janis Pamiljans Comments
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    Northrop Starts Construction on UAS Facility in North Dakota; Janis Pamiljans Comments

    Northrop Grumman has broken ground on a new $10 million facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, to carry out research and development work on unmanned aerial systems. The 36,000-square-foot building will be built at Grand Sky UAS Business and Aviation Park and will also perform mission analysis, aircrew training and aircraft maintenance operations related to drones, […] More

  • CACI Receives Justice Department Content Mgmt Task Order
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    CACI Receives Justice Department Content Mgmt Task Order

    CACI International has received a five-year, $22 million task order to implement the Justice Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives content management system. The system is designed to capture documents, license explosives, track firearms and process fugitive warrant records, CACI said Thursday. CACI will also develop agile software, maintain software systems, update applications and […] More

  • DARPA Eyes Interoperable Network Platforms for Manned Aircraft, Drones; Wayne Phoel Comments
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    DARPA Eyes Interoperable Network Platforms for Manned Aircraft, Drones; Wayne Phoel Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation for industry proposals for a program that seeks to develop platforms designed to facilitate interoperability of airborne radio networks that manned aircraft and drones use to communicate with each other. The objective of the Dynamic Network Adaptation for Mission Optimization program “is to enable pilots […] More

  • FedRAMP Board Clears Datapipe’s Govt Cloud Service Offering
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    FedRAMP Board Clears Datapipe’s Govt Cloud Service Offering

    Datapipe has obtained a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a managed private cloud hosting service in the U.S. government sector. The FedRAMP Joint Authorization Board granted Datapipe a provisional authority-to-operate status for its Federal Community Cloud Platform, the company said Thursday. The company aims to help agencies manage sensitive information as […] More