Fugue has received a Cybersecurity Breakthrough Award in the infrastructure-as-a-service category. The company said Wednesday it was given the award as recognition for its products that readily determine the existence of anomalous content in a cloud infrastructure, like a policy violation, an unauthorized transaction or a misconfiguration, and address the …

American Systems has won a potential five-year, $68.6 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force develop and implement a emergency mass notification system. The company said Tuesday it will build a cloud-based enterprise EMNS infrastructure for the service branch’s personnel to receive alerts in the event of a critical situation. …

MobileGuard‘s mobile communications compliance products have been added to immixGroup‘s offerings to the federal sector under the General Services Administration‘s Information Technology Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solution for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract vehicle. MobileGuard said Tuesday its platforms will work to help customer agencies  capture, monitor, archive and analyze text and SMS communications across all mobile operating systems …

Irving Burton Associates has unveiled a cloud-based service that is built on open source technology and designed to accelerate the delivery of native, hybrid and web-based mobile applications. The Federal Mobile Services Platform works to supply rapid prototypes to Android, iOS, Windows and BlackBerry devices and comply with federal customer security requirements and policies, IBA …

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has requested information on potential industry sources of cloud-based technology platforms as CFPB plans to migrate its data workloads to the cloud in fiscal year 2017. In a FedBizOpps sources sought notice posted Tuesday, CFPB asked interested vendors to provide feedback on the cost, timeline and technical requirements of …

The U.S. Coast Guard has selected BlackBerry‘s AtHoc division to provide a software platform in support of efforts to expand the functionalities of the service branch’s alert warning tool. AtHoc will integrate its Crisis Communication software with USCG’s Alert Warning System 2.0 in order to facilitate transmission of emergency alerts as …

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 …

Art Coviello, formerly CEO and executive chairman of RSA, has joined the board of directors of Cylance. Coviello led RSA’s growth to a $1 billion-revenue business at present from a $25 million-revenue company in 1995, Cylance said Tuesday. “Art’s reputation in the industry, coupled with his deep domain expertise and operating …

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce has introduced a new group that will aim to facilitate collaboration between the industry and government on cybersecurity practices and policies. The Chamber said Tuesday the Cybersecurity Leadership Council will promote additional discussions between commercial enterprises and policymakers. [W]e need to focus on mitigation of cyber risks …

The U.S. Army‘s Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center is looking into commercial software and related service offerings to supplement the military branch’s mobile health information technology infrastructure. In a request for information published June 9 on FedBizOpps, the Army said its Mobile Health Care Environment System is designed to …

The U.S. Marshals Service will deploy iPhones for employee use during fiscal 2015 as part of the agency’s mobility initiative, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Aliya Sternstein writes USMS plans to update its current mobility program and is looking into the possibility of accessing agency network through personal devices. The agency also …

An Elbit Systems subsidiary has been selected to test the Department of Homeland Security‘s broadband services for public safety operations. Elbit Systems of America will demonstrate WideBridge, which works to combine mission systems with the Federal Information Processing Standards-approved BlackBerry BES10 workspace and Etherstack’s P.25 networks, Elbit Systems said Tuesday. “Ongoing efforts to establish important interoperable …

CA Technologies has joined a cybersecurity alliance that seeks to craft multi-factor authentication standards for securing online transactions. The company sought to bring its experience in securing identities and data access to the Fast IDentity Online group, CA said Tuesday. “The market has been screaming for an alternative to passwords for …

Digital Management Inc. has purchased mobile and multichannel commerce provider KnowledgePath in an effort to grow DMI’s enterprise mobility, big data, mobile and Web commerce offerings. KnowledgePath works to integrate mobile commerce, mobile point-of-sale and mobile clienteling functions, DMI said Wednesday. Jay Sunny Bajaj, president and CEO of DMI, said …

Rick Costanzo has been appointed the next executive vice president and general manager of the global mobility solutions group at SAP AG. Costanzo will be in-charge of a field sales, enablement and solutions management team that promotes the company’s mobile product portfolio, the company announced Wednesday. Steve Lucas, SAP president of …