A new research report from Dimension Data has found that cyber attacks against the government sector doubled from seven percent in 2015 to 14 percent to join the financial sector as the top targets of attacks in 2016. The NTT Group operating firm said Monday data that its partner companies compiled across a client base that spans […] More

Vodafone Hutchison Australia, Dimension Data and FireEye have teamed up to establish a cyber defense and response center in Australia as part of a five-year, multimillion-dollar investment to combat cyber threats. Vodafone said Monday the company intends for the CDRC to monitor cyber events, gather threat intelligence and respond to incidents in order to help […] More

Adam Petrovsky, formerly U.S. government and education area vice president at Dimension Data, has joined IT and managed services provider Logicalis US as practice leader for government and education. Logicalis said Tuesday Petrovsky will be responsible for the company’s K12 education, higher education, local government and state government go-to-market strategy, as well as the GovEd practice’s business […] More

Data Dimensions has secured a spot under the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 36 contract vehicle to offer office imaging services to government agencies over the next five years. The contract will help provide Data Dimensions access to federal government contracts and opportunities in line with its service and product offerings, the company said Tuesday. Jon Boumstein, president and […] More

Data Dimensions will continue to provide electronic data conversion services for the Department of Veterans Affairs under a five-year subcontract with Systems Made Simple, a Lockheed Martin subsidiary. Data Dimensions said Monday it secured the subcontract from SMS through the Intake Conversion Mail Handling Services contract with VA. Jon Boumstein, president and CEO of Data […] More

Bill Downer, vice president of national programs at Seagate Federal, believes “the edge is everywhere,” no matter where the data is collected and stored. He is a strong advocate for defending data at rest, and at Seagate, he leads the company’s delivery of secure data storage products to federal agencies. In a recent Executive Spotlight interview with ExecutiveBiz, Downer discussed Seagate’s most impactful partnerships, highlighted emerging cyber threats and shared his insights on zero trust. 

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The venture capital arms of Lockheed Martin and NTT Docomo have invested in TileDB, a company that developed a system for storing, analyzing and sharing large datasets on-premise or in a cloud environment. TIleDB said Wednesday it will use the funds to further develop its database platform that processes information using multidimensional arrays can work […] More

Leidos has won a potential four-year, $600 million contract to help the Army Geospatial Center collect, process, store and disseminate digital 3D imagery. The single-award contract extends the company’s operation and technology integration support for AGC’s High-Resolution Three Dimensional Geospatial Information program, Leidos said Monday. AGC will continue to receive contractor-owned, contractor-operated aircraft services and […] More

The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Amazon Web Services have teamed up to improve the accessibility of a cloud-based ecosystem for neuroimaging datasets. Johns Hopkins APL said Thursday the expanded partnership will enable AWS to further support the storage of neuroscience datasets within its Brain Observatory Storage Service & Database, dubbed BossDB, through […] More

Westat and Stanford University School of Medicine have released data from the Coronavirus Attitudes and Behaviors Survey on the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on Americans. The dataset is now available through a Westat partnership with Metadata Technology North America. Lawmakers, researchers and the general public can use it to help the U.S. recover from the pandemic. The survey was performed in May of 2020.

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Visual Awareness Technologies and Consulting has implemented a common database builder system at multiple facilities of the Special Operations Command and other government agencies. VATC said Wednesday the U.S. Air Force and Army will use the CDB Builder tool to conduct training and mission planning activities at various sites in Florida and Tennessee. Sara Moola, co-founder […] More

DigitalGlobe has added three new companies to its roster of partners and customers that use the satellite imagery provider’s geospatial big data analytics platform. Lockheed Martin, PrecisionHawk and Video Inform are among the companies that joined DigitalGlobe’s GBDX ecosystem or extended their commitments in the fourth quarter of 2016, DigitalGlobe said Tuesday. Lockheed uses GBDX in an effort to create commercial […] More