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  • MITRE’s Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book
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    MITRE’s Carson Zimmerman Pens New Computer Network Defense Book

    Carson Zimmerman, principal cybersecurity engineer at MITRE Corp., has outlined strategies to bolster computer network defense across the government, industry, academia and nonprofit sector in his new book. The book, entitled Ten Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center, contains best practices based on lessons learned from MITRE’s previous projects with U.S. military and civilian clients, MITRE said Wednesday. Zimmerman […] More

  • DTRA Taps Raytheon Surveillance System for Moldova Border Project; David Appel Comments
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    DTRA Taps Raytheon Surveillance System for Moldova Border Project; David Appel Comments

    Raytheon will provide an electro-optical and infrared surveillance system for Moldova’s border security initiatives under a potential $12.9 million contract from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The company said Friday the contract also includes training and sustainment services and the eventual handover of all related functions to the Moldova government, which wants to prevent the transport of weapons of mass destruction. David Appel, […] More

  • Verizon’s Steve Lefrancois: Cloud, ‘Internet of Things’ to Grow in Public Sector
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    Verizon’s Steve Lefrancois: Cloud, ‘Internet of Things’ to Grow in Public Sector

    Steve Lefrancois, chief technology officer of Verizon‘s public sector markets, highlighted several technologies that he believes will see increasing rates of adoption within the public sector in an interview published Thursday on Verizon’s website. Lefrancois cited cloud computing, mobile, big data and the Internet of Things or machine-to-machine technologies as among several potential growth areas for the public sector market. He […] More

  • Lockheed’s Steve Betza: Public-Private Partnerships Key to Manufacturing Innovation
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    Lockheed’s Steve Betza: Public-Private Partnerships Key to Manufacturing Innovation

    Lockheed Martin‘s Steve Betza has pointed to collaboration between industry, government and academia in the field of manufacturing as a method he believes could accelerate the time-to-market of new technologies. Betza, director of advanced manufacturing and development at Lockheed, wrote in a guest post published Wednesday on the Commerce Department‘s blog that participation in public-private partnerships could lead to a significant transformation […] More

  • Siemens to Integrate Grid Mgmt Software into Dell Desktops; Joyce Mullen Comments
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    Siemens to Integrate Grid Mgmt Software into Dell Desktops; Joyce Mullen Comments

    Dell and Siemens have partnered to run the electronics company’s software for power grid data management on Dell-made desktop computers. Siemens’ smart grid business seeks to integrate its Spectrum Power 4 application running on top of the Solaris operating system into OptiPlex XE2 desktops by collaborating with Dell’s OEM Solutions division, Dell said Wednesday. “We […] More

  • DoD Customer Takes in Harris Falcon III Wideband Radio
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    DoD Customer Takes in Harris Falcon III Wideband Radio

    Harris Corp. has delivered the first Falcon III RF-330E-TR production units to a Defense Department customer as part of its programs for handheld, manpack and small form factor radios. The company said Thursday the RF-330E-TR is a wideband team radio used for tactical communications in theater with functions to monitor radio status and network availability. It is compliant with DoD’s Rifleman Radio […] More

  • Army Tests Northrop’s Handheld Laser Targeting Device; Gordon Stewart Comments
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    Army Tests Northrop’s Handheld Laser Targeting Device; Gordon Stewart Comments

    The U.S. Army has conducted developmental testing on the Northrop Grumman-developed Hand Held Precision Targeting Device at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico to demonstrate the device’s target engagement functions. The company said Wednesday that the Army’s Rapid Equipping Force and Program Executive Office’s Project Manager – Soldier Sensors and Lasers evaluated the digitally connected device in environments with […] More

  • NASA: Gravity Anomalies on Moon May Indicate Ancient Volcanic Activity, Not Asteroid Impact
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    NASA: Gravity Anomalies on Moon May Indicate Ancient Volcanic Activity, Not Asteroid Impact

    NASA has collected evidence that the topography of the Oceanus Procellarum region of the moon believed to be the result of an asteroid impact may have been caused instead by the formation of rift valleys. The agency said Wednesday it used the Lockheed Martin-built Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to observe the gravity gradients of the moon’s surface and found gravitational anomalies. The GRAIL gravity […] More

  • Report: Air Force Could Award Long-Range Radar Contract Next Week
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    Report: Air Force Could Award Long-Range Radar Contract Next Week

    The Air Force could unveil the winner of a contract to build the branch’s long-range radar system as soon as next week, Reuters reported Wednesday. Andrea Shalal writes Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall has approved the service’s Three-Dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar procurement plan. Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Raytheon are all vying for the contract. The […] More

  • Bob McDonald: VA Taps MITRE to Help Assess Programs, Practices
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    Bob McDonald: VA Taps MITRE to Help Assess Programs, Practices

    MITRE Corp. will work with the Department of Veterans Affairs to assess healthcare processes throughout the VA under a contract with undisclosed terms. The nonprofit research and development organization will serve as program integrator and coordinate the results of third-party assessments under the Veterans Access, Choice and Accountability Act of 2014, the VA said Thursday. Bob McDonald, veterans affairs secretary, said the independent assessment “will provide the department a […] More

  • HHS Furthers Influenza Diagnostics Test with New Contracts; Robin Robinson Comments
    in Healthcare IT, News

    HHS Furthers Influenza Diagnostics Test with New Contracts; Robin Robinson Comments

    The Department of Health and Human Services has respectively awarded $12.9 million and $14.7 million contracts to Alere and InDevR to further develop influenza detection test methods. Alere will work to develop a method to identify a patient infected with influenza virus type A or B based on its iNAT Influenza A&B test, HHS said Wednesday. InDevR will also continue work on its FluChip-8G test to […] More