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  • Samsung-Intelligent Decisions Alliance to Supply Tablet Computers to Air Force; Joe Armstrong Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Samsung-Intelligent Decisions Alliance to Supply Tablet Computers to Air Force; Joe Armstrong Comments

    A team of Samsung Electronics and Intelligent Decisions has been awarded a contract to supply tablet computers to the U.S. Air Force’s bases worldwide after the handheld passed the military service’s hardware and software tests for flight line use. Air Force technicians will use the Galaxy Tab S2 device to access digital technical orders, manuals and parts databases to perform aircraft […] More

  • International Computer Science Institute Receives DHS S&T Grant For Privacy Protection Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    International Computer Science Institute Receives DHS S&T Grant For Privacy Protection Tech Development

    The International Computer Science Institute has received $664,378 in funds from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to develop privacy intrusion detection technology for use on mobile devices. DHS said Wednesday the Berkeley, California-based research organization secured the award through a broad agency announcement of DHS S&T’s cybersecurity division. The award is part of the S&T’s directorate’s […] More

  • Carahsoft to Offer Agencies Samsung Mobile Security Platform via 2 Govt Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Offer Agencies Samsung Mobile Security Platform via 2 Govt Contracts

    Carahsoft Technology and Samsung Electronics America have signed a distribution agreement to offer a Samsung-made mobile security software to government agencies through Carahsoft’s contracts with the General Services Administration and NASA. Carahsoft said Wednesday it will distribute the Knox platform to the public sector via  GSA’s Information Technology Schedule 70 and NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement. “As the government continues to embrace […] More

  • Samir Salman: Continental to Provide Transport Safety, Connectivity Tech for DOT's Smart City Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Samir Salman: Continental to Provide Transport Safety, Connectivity Tech for DOT’s Smart City Initiative

    Global automotive supplier Continental has pledged to spend at least $1 million to help the winning city in the Transportation Department‘s Smart City Challenge to build a modern transportation network. Continental said Friday DOT selected Columbus, Ohio, as the competition’s winner and the company will provide sensing, vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to infrastructure communication technology for the city to manage traffic safety at intersections. The […] More

  • Samsung-Booz Allen Team Unveils Joint Mobile Security Assessment Model - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Samsung-Booz Allen Team Unveils Joint Mobile Security Assessment Model

    Samsung Electronics America and Booz Allen Hamilton have jointly developed a new security assessment offering that works to identify the risks, threats and vulnerabilities of an enterprise’s mobile infrastructure. Booz Allen said Monday the partnership aims to help clients in sectors such as finance, healthcare and retail to address cybersecurity issues and adopt what the firm refers to as a “mobile first” […] More

  • Discover Technologies Gets Army Networthiness Certification for Mobility Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Discover Technologies Gets Army Networthiness Certification for Mobility Platform

    Discover Technologies has obtained a Certificate of Networthiness from the U.S. Army‘s Network Enterprise Technology Command for the company’s technology that works to help SharePoint users transmit data in low-bandwidth areas. Discover Access for SharePoint is designed to comply with Section 508 standards and WCAG 2.0 AA accessibility standards and seeks to accelerate the time it takes to load data from 2.6 minutes […] More

  • BlackBerry Updates AtHoc Crisis Mgmt Platform to Address Emergency Communication Issues - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry Updates AtHoc Crisis Mgmt Platform to Address Emergency Communication Issues

    BlackBerry‘s AtHoc division has updated its crisis management platform in an effort to address market trends. BlackBerry said Monday the updates include an option to create rules for forwarding alerts received from external organizations and sources, automated staff mustering, management alerting and severity-codified notifications. “Critical events are inherently complex, and our customers have been asking for faster and more […] More

  • Pentagon Force Protection Agency Renews AtHoc Crisis Comms Tech Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Pentagon Force Protection Agency Renews AtHoc Crisis Comms Tech Contract

    The Pentagon Force Protection Agency has awarded a BlackBerry division a potential four-year contract to help the agency expand deployment of a suite of crisis communications applications at the Defense Department. AtHoc said Tuesday its Networked Crisis Communications Suite will support about 37,000 users throughout the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Defense Security Services and the Washington Headquarters Services. “Their […] More

  • DHS Solicits White Papers for Security Tool R&D Program for Mobile Apps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Solicits White Papers for Security Tool R&D Program for Mobile Apps

    The Department of Homeland Security has solicited white papers for a five-year contract that aims to conduct research and develop security tools for mobile applications, Federal Times reported Friday. Aaron Boyd writes DHS said in a broad agency announcement posted on FedBizOpps that the Mobile Application Security R&D project seeks to “identify innovative approaches that […] More

  • DMI Develops Mobile App for DoD Cemetery Maintenance, Operations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DMI Develops Mobile App for DoD Cemetery Maintenance, Operations

    DMI will deploy a mobile application meant to help cemetery operations teams manage catalogs and assign location tags at Defense Department national military cemeteries. The company will provide the Enterprise Interment Services System app and build a common virtual database and network environment for more than 42 military cemeteries across the U.S., DMI said May 24. DMI intends for the enterprise app […] More

  • Unisys’ Mark Forman: Hybrid, 4-Tier Architecture Facilitates Government Workforce Mobility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Unisys’ Mark Forman: Hybrid, 4-Tier Architecture Facilitates Government Workforce Mobility

    Mark Forman, global public sector head at Unisys, has said the adoption of a four-tier architecture could help government agencies facilitate mobility among their staff and change the way they deliver services to citizens. Forman wrote in a Government Technology article published April 15 that such architecture employs a hybrid model of analog and digital systems. […] More

  • GSA Seeks Info on Federal Mobile Service Procurement Process; Jon Johnson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Seeks Info on Federal Mobile Service Procurement Process; Jon Johnson Comments

    The General Services Administration has asked industry on behalf of the mobile services category team to provide information on how vendors sell enterprise mobile devices and services to federal agencies. GSA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted May 2 the request for information is part of MSCT’s compliance with the Office of Management and Budget’s […] More