Amazon Web Services has made the Wickr recall, alert and messaging service available on a cloud hosting service and platform for the Department of Defense in an effort to enable the military services to exchange controlled unclassified information. The encrypted full suite collaboration application works to allow Cloud One users to send messages, transfer files, […] More

Amazon Web Services has completed a readiness assessment for Wickr, a technology offering designed to help government users exchange encrypted messages, under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Wickr for Government has been granted the FedRAMP Ready designation in the moderate baseline after the platform underwent an evaluation against a set of federal security […] More

Blake Moore, a 15-year Department of Defense veteran, has joined collaboration platforms provider Wickr as vice president of strategy and operations. He will oversee the company“™s strategy and help expand its presence across government and commercial sectors, Wickr said Monday.

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Wickr has secured a potential two-year, $35M contract to provide a recall, alert and messaging service to all three military departments under the Department of Defense. The company said Tuesday it will extend adoption of the Wickr RAM collaboration platform across the departments of the U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army under a new contract with USAF.

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Wickr has received a two-year, $35M contract to develop a suite of recall, alert and messaging applications for the U.S. Air Force. The San Francisco-based company will provide cloud-based RAM tools designed to help users manage protected files, videos, chats, text messages and voice communications, the Department of Defense said Monday.

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Merlin International and Wickr have formed a partnership to help federal customers protect communications and sensitive data through the use of cybersecurity technology platforms.

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Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle have secured spots on a potential $9 billion cloud procurement vehicle from the Department of Defense. The multiple-award Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract is intended to provide military personnel with enterprise-wide, globally available cloud offerings spanning all security domains and classification levels from the strategic level to the tactical edge, DOD said Wednesday. […] More