The U.S. Army has selected four companies to provide laboratory research animals and devices to the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases and other Defense Department agencies under a $25 million contract. DoD said Wednesday the firm-fixed-price contract covers support for basic research through July 12, 2020. The following companies may receive blanket purchase agreements within […] More

Cybereason has introduced a new technology platform for organizations to identify and counter cyber threats. The Cybereason Platform is developed to detect malicious hacking operations such as Malops through enterprise-wide continuous system monitoring, Cybereason said Tuesday. The offering is intended to help chief information security officers and security analysts reconstruct the behavior of Malops and terminate […] More

An industry team led by BAE Systems has won a $79 million contract to help the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency design technology for converting large volumes of sensor data into threat intelligence. DARPA seeks to build a device that can help defense organizations process information from multiple sensors and predict threat behaviors by using […] More

The U.K. ministry of defense has formally accepted a BAE Systems-built River-class offshore patrol vessel designed to help protect the country’s territories and interests worldwide. HMS Forth will remain at the Scotstoun yard in Glasgow, Scotland for additional work before its commissioning at the Portsmouth Naval Base later this year, BAE said Thursday. The company also started […] More

Sentar has secured a five-year, $9.9 million task order from the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific for security engineering, software development and technical support services. SPAWARSYSCEN PAC awarded the order through the multiple-award Cyberspace Science, Research, Engineering and Technology Integration contract Sentar won a spot on in March, the company said Monday. Sentar will provide […] More

Jeff Sopko, executive vice president of PotomacWave Consulting, has said five agencies have adopted the company’s FedDataCheck tool to catch data errors in federal contract awards prior to “downstream reporting,” GovExec reported Monday. “[Errors] stem from frequent changes in policy and procedures that take time to be implemented in source contract writing, as well as human errors,” Sopko told GovExec. […] More