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  • BlackBerry Subsidiary, IBM, Samsung Develop Tablet for Gov't and Enterprise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry Subsidiary, IBM, Samsung Develop Tablet for Gov’t and Enterprise

    BlackBerry‘s Secusmart subsidiary has worked with IBM and Samsung to develop a tablet that supports SecuSUITE for BlackBerry 10 to enable secure mobile communications for government and enterprise users. BlackBerry said Saturday the SecuTABLET is based on Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 and is awaiting security certification for classified data from the German Federal Office for Information Security. “Working alongside […] More

  • Boeing, BlackBerry Aim to Offer Tamper-Proof Smartphone - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, BlackBerry Aim to Offer Tamper-Proof Smartphone

    Boeing and BlackBerry will collaborate to offer government customers an Android smartphone designed to have a tamper-proof covering and a security architecture, Bloomberg reported Saturday. John Chen, chairman and CEO of BlackBerry, confirmed the partnership during an earnings call with investors on Saturday, according to the report by Julie Johnsson and Gerrit De Vynck. Johnsson […] More

  • Vivek Kundra: BlackBerry, Salesforce Form Enterprise Mobile Market Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vivek Kundra: BlackBerry, Salesforce Form Enterprise Mobile Market Partnership

    Salesforce.com and BlackBerry have partnered to develop a mobility product that combines Salesforce’s Customer Success Platform and BlackBerry’s enterprise mobility management tools in an effort to support the productivity, security and collaboration requirements of a mobile workforce. BlackBerry said Thursday its BES12 software works to deliver customer relationship management and device management to deliver mobile end-to-end services across enterprise mobile platforms. “This agreement will allow […] More

  • Ranaan Horowitz: Elbit Systems to Help DHS Demo Broadband Services in Interoperability Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ranaan Horowitz: Elbit Systems to Help DHS Demo Broadband Services in Interoperability Push

    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 broadband solutions for the FirstNet […] More

  • BlackBerry's Jeffrey Ait: Incentive Policies Could Help Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry’s Jeffrey Ait: Incentive Policies Could Help Address Cybersecurity Talent Shortage

    The need for stronger cyber protection has reached a “critical juncture” and lawmakers should consider introducing measures to close the information technology skills shortage, BlackBerry‘s Jeffrey Ait writes in an opinion piece for Nextgov. Ait, BlackBerry vice president and head of its U.S. public sector business, says two recent studies indicated the current government IT […] More

  • Marty Beard Joins BlackBerry as COO; John Chen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marty Beard Joins BlackBerry as COO; John Chen Comments

    Marty Beard, formerly chairman and CEO of LiveOps Inc., has joined BlackBerry Ltd. as chief operating officer. Beard will oversee BlackBerry’s marketing, BlackBerry 10 application development efforts, customer care and quality operations, BlackBerry said Monday. He will also be responsible for establishing best practices and processes. “Marty brings extensive experience in operations, marketing and serving […] More

  • BlackBerry Project to Develop Resources for Internet of Things; John Chen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry Project to Develop Resources for Internet of Things; John Chen Comments

    BlackBerry has launched at this week’s O’Reilly Solid Conference in San Francisco its Project Ion series of initiatives to drive the Internet of Things by developing resources to extract insight from large amounts of data. “Billions of connections, generating trillions of transactions and exabytes of data daily, will require platforms that can operate securely on a global […] More

  • BlackBerry Unveils Enterprise Platform Security Tools; Jeff Holleran Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlackBerry Unveils Enterprise Platform Security Tools; Jeff Holleran Comments

    BlackBerry has introduced new mobility management and security monitoring services for its enterprise platform offering and other mobile device products, GCN reported Friday. John Breeden II writes users of Android and iOS devices will have access to BlackBerry security features through the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10.2 software tool. “Users of non-BlackBerry devices can now use […] More

  • Bob Fecteau: SAIC Adopts BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Server - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bob Fecteau: SAIC Adopts BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 Server

    Science Applications International Corp. has implemented the BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 platform to manage and secure corporate mobile devices that run on BlackBerry, Apple iOS and Android operating systems. SAIC has also deployed BlackBerry 10 smartphones and a Secure Work Space containerization platform that works to separate business and personal data, BlackBerry said Monday. “Implementing BlackBerry’s […] More