A partnership between FCi Federal and The Oryza Group has been awarded a four-year contract to provide data management and administrative support services for service centers of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The Service Center Operations Support Services B contract awarded to the Service Center Oryza Team covers support for USCIS …
Read More »Michael Donlan: Police Departments Cite FBI’s Security Standards Compliance for Microsoft’s Cloud Adoption
Law enforcement agencies in California and North Carolina have started to adopt Microsoft’s cloud platform due to the offering’s compliance with the security regulations of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services. The Los Angeles Police Department and North Carolina-based Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department are among the agencies that access fingerprint files, …
Read More »Lockheed Gets $238M Delivery Order for Navy F-35 Spares
Lockheed Martin has received a $237.7 million delivery order to provide initial spares for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, non-Pentagon participants and international military clients under a basic agreement previously awarded to the firm. The Defense Department said Thursday the spares will be used in the preliminary production of F-35 jets under the …
Read More »Raytheon Awards $2M System Hardware Contract to OSI Systems; Deepak Chopra Comments
OSI Systems’ optoelectronics division has received a potential $2 million contract to provide software and system hardware components for Raytheon. OSI said Friday Raytheon will use the components to create an electronic toll collection system for the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. “We are excited to provide our sensor technology and software …
Read More »CACI Secures SEC Investigation Support Task Orders
CACI International has received two task orders worth $29.8 million combined to provide investigation support and legal assistance services for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The five-year contracts cover work for SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, Division of Enforcement and Office of the Investor Advocate, the company said Thursday. …
Read More »Raj Samani: Honeywell-Intel Security Alliance Seeks to Boost ‘Industrial Internet of Things’ Via Cyber Threat Defense
Honeywell Process Solutions and Intel Security have agreed to combine their platforms in an effort to help commercial clients protect their data infrastructure and ‘Industrial Internet of Things’-based devices from malware and potential cyber attacks. The partnership covers the integration of Intel Security’s McAfee Application Whitelisting and McAfee Device Control offerings …
Read More »Harris Subjects Vehicular Tactical Radios to Limited User Test; George Helm Comments
Harris Corp. has conducted a limited user test of its Mid-tier Networking Vehicular Radio during the U.S. Army’s Network Integration Evaluation 15.3 operation at Fort Bliss in Texas. The company said Thursday it sought to validate the video, voice and data sharing capability of MNVR among soldiers across company, battalion and brigade levels and …
Read More »SRI International’s Online Game Seeks to Verify Software; John Murray Comments
SRI International has developed an online game as part of a government program that intends to verify software to ensure that it lacks errors and security vulnerabilities. The company said Tuesday it created Binary Fission with the University of California in Santa Cruz and the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Crowd-Sourced Formal …
Read More »Mountain Secure Systems to Produce Video Mgmt Units for DRS Surveillance Platform
Mountain Secure Systems has received a two-year contract to develop and produce video management units for DRS Technologies’ updated version of the Surveillance and Battlefield Reconnaissance Equipment system. MSS said Wednesday its ruggedized 3U VPX platform has frame grabber cards, I/O modules, graphical processor units and single-board computers and is designed to …
Read More »Red Hat, Samsung to Develop Mobile Platforms for Commercial Clients
Red Hat and Samsung have formed a partnership to develop mobile platforms for companies to manage business information and operations. Red Hat said Tuesday it will work with Samsung to develop mobile applications that can be configured for a company’s back-end systems and can operate on Android and other mobile operating systems through the …
Read More »IBM-Box Alliance Seeks to Facilitate Cloud-Based Enterprise Collaboration
IBM and cloud storage firm Box have formed an alliance to combine their services and offerings in an effort to help enterprises manage data workloads and collaborate with other businesses in a cloud environment. IBM said Wednesday it will integrate Box’s cloud-based content collaboration tool with Watson Analytics, IBM Verse business email …
Read More »Jacobs Gets UK Carbon Capture, Storage Program Technical Consulting Contract; Bob Duff Comments
Jacobs Engineering Group’s consultancy business has received a two-year contract from a U.K. government agency to provide technical consulting services for a $1.55 billion program to create commercial-scale carbon capture and storage projects. Jacobs said Tuesday the contract from the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change covers the assessment of …
Read More »Northrop to Perform Targeting Pod Upgrades Aboard F-16 Jets
Northrop Grumman has won contracts worth $74 million to upgrade the targeting pods onboard the F-16 multirole fighter aircraft of the Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard. The company said Monday the upgrade work intends to equip the F-16 jets with the AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening G4 targeting and surveillance system’s …
Read More »Fidelis-Ponemon Institute Survey Finds Cyber Risk Awareness Gap Between IT Professionals, Board Members
A new survey commissioned by Fidelis Cybersecurity says gaps exist between information technology professionals and board members in terms of cybersecurity knowledge and awareness of data breach incidents within their organizations. The company said Tuesday the Defining the Gap: The Cybersecurity Governance Survey showed that 41 percent of board member respondents said …
Read More »Boeing Completes C-17 Training Simulator Delivery to U.S. Air Force
Boeing has turned over its last training simulator for the C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Tuesday the military branch received the 28th C-17 aircrew simulator at Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base in West Virginia. “Receiving our simulator avoids sending our …
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