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  • Carnegie Mellon University to Research, Develop Surveillance Algorithms for Navy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carnegie Mellon University to Research, Develop Surveillance Algorithms for Navy

    Carnegie Mellon University has been awarded an $8.9 million contract to research and develop new algorithms for the U.S. Navy’s aerial and biometric surveillance efforts. The Defense Department said Monday the university will research tracking, surveillance and identification systems intended to address challenges in resolution, occlusion, pose and aging as part of the UROPA-TSI program. Carnegie Mellon will conduct […] More

  • DARPA Picks 8 for Armored, Agile Ground Vehicle Research; Christopher Orlowski Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Picks 8 for Armored, Agile Ground Vehicle Research; Christopher Orlowski Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight organizations to research and develop an armored ground vehicle that can accommodate additional armor without compromising mobility and speed. DARPA said Tuesday the agency is interested in a vehicle with track and suspension technologies, agile motion systems, 360-degree data visualization technology and a signature management system […] More

  • CGI Launches Insider Threat Advisory Services; Michael Roach Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Launches Insider Threat Advisory Services; Michael Roach Comments

    CGI has introduced new insider threat advisory services in an effort to help government and commercial customers respond to cybersecurity threats. The program will advise organizations in their analysis of various data sources and cultural change efforts in order to identify risks through what the company calls an insider threat lens, CGI said Wednesday. “An […] More

  • Iowa State Student Team Wins Lockheed-Backed Cyber Contest; Chris Kearns Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iowa State Student Team Wins Lockheed-Backed Cyber Contest; Chris Kearns Comments

    A group of students from Iowa State University has won $25,000 in a cyber analysis competition that Lockheed Martin sponsored with Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology. The National Cyber Analyst Challenge seeks to improve threat identification and cyber analysis skills of the future cyber workforce and encourage students to pursue cybersecurity-related careers, […] More

  • DARPA Awards Phase 1 Contracts for Automated Language Tech Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Awards Phase 1 Contracts for Automated Language Tech Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded Phase 1 contracts to 13 organizations from industry and academia to help develop automated translation technology for DARPA’s Low Resource Languages for Emergent Incidents program. DARPA said Thursday LORELEI aims to utilize public information sources in local languages to support quick-response operations such as disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, peacekeeping and infectious disease response […] More

  • Boeing, Carnegie Mellon Open Aerospace Data Analytics Lab; Nancy Bailey Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Carnegie Mellon Open Aerospace Data Analytics Lab; Nancy Bailey Comments

    Boeing has established an aerospace data analytics laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University as part of a new academic research initiative in which the company will invest $7.5 million over a three-year period. Carnegie Mellon said Thursday the initiative aims to extract value out of data gathered from aircraft design, construction and operation. Jaime Carbonell, a computer science […] More

  • IEEE Names Robert Cunningham Chair, Ulf Lindqvist Vice Chair of Cybersecurity Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IEEE Names Robert Cunningham Chair, Ulf Lindqvist Vice Chair of Cybersecurity Initiative

    The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers has appointed Robert K. Cunningham chairman and Ulf Lindqvist vice chair of the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative. Cunningham and Lindqvist will lead work to develop tools in an effort to speed up privacy and security technological innovations, craft guidelines for the creation of secure software application codes and promote cybersecurity […] More

  • PwC Survey: 79% of 500 Respondents Found Cyber Incident in Past Year - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PwC Survey: 79% of 500 Respondents Found Cyber Incident in Past Year

    PwC has unveiled the “2015 U.S. State of Cybercrime Survey,” which found that few organizations have established stronger cybersecurity measures despite the increase in attacks and the greater role of organization leaders in cyber decision-making. PwC said July 16 that 79 percent of respondents detected a cybersecurity incident in the past year, with 163 reported incidents […] More

  • Robert Coen: NIH's CIO-CS Vehicle to Complete Carnegie Mellon Assessment By Year's End - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Robert Coen: NIH’s CIO-CS Vehicle to Complete Carnegie Mellon Assessment By Year’s End

    Robert Coen, program director for the National Institutes of Health’s Chief Information Officer-Commodity Solutions governmentwide acquisition contract, has said the vehicle could complete Carnegie Mellon University’s assessment program by the end of 2015, Federal Times reported Friday. Aaron Boyd writes the CIO-CS vehicle would be the first governmentwide acquisition contract to obtain a level-three Carnegie Mellon Capability […] More

  • Wayne Balta: Carnegie Mellon to Use IBM Cloud Analytics for 'Smart' Building Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Wayne Balta: Carnegie Mellon to Use IBM Cloud Analytics for ‘Smart’ Building Project

    Carnegie Mellon University is set to deploy an IBM cloud-based analytics platform under a facility management partnership aimed at helping the academic institution use data to manage its building systems. IBM said Thursday that CMU aims to use IBM technology to monitor systems utilization on the university’s 36-building Pittsburgh campus and save up to $2 […] More

  • Greg Shannon to Lead IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Greg Shannon to Lead IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative

    Greg Shannon, CERT Division chief scientist at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute, will lead the IEEE Cybersecurity Initiative as chairman. Shannon will work to develop resources for computer security education, guide software coding and further cybersecurity adoption across the industry, IEEE said Monday. “With IEEE’s ubiquitous impact on cyber technologies, I’m delighted to chair this initiative and harness […] More

  • Executive Profile: John Pranzatelli, MBDA President - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Executive Profile: John Pranzatelli, MBDA President

    John Pranzatelli is the president of MBDA Inc., where he is responsible for working with U.S. military customers and partners to develop new products and grow MBDA Group’s presence in the U.S. market. Prior to this role, he was MBDA’s vice president for strategy and business operations. Before joining MBDA, Pranzatelli served at Northrop Grumman as vice […] More