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  • Leidos, Cray Forge Multilevel Security Tech Devt Partnership; Fred Kohout Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, Cray Forge Multilevel Security Tech Devt Partnership; Fred Kohout Comments

    Leidos and Cray have formed a partnership to develop and sell multilevel security platforms designed to help commercial and federal agency clients protect their information technology systems from cyber threats. The strategic alliance covers MLS platforms such as the Cray CS cluster supercomputer series, Cray said Wednesday. Cray’s CS cluster supercomputers are designed to manage […] More

  • Esri Inks Cooperative R&D, Enterprise Agreements with DOE Lab, NATO - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Esri Inks Cooperative R&D, Enterprise Agreements with DOE Lab, NATO

    Esri has entered into a cooperative research-and-development agreement with the Energy Department‘s Idaho National Laboratory and a separate enterprise agreement with NATO. INL and Esri will collaborate to explore and develop prototype concepts related to location-based intelligence technology that can help secure critical infrastructure and missions, the company said Wednesday. Both parties aim to identify the potential […] More

  • Woolpert to Help Agencies Assess Cyber Risk Through FICO Enterprise Security Score - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Woolpert to Help Agencies Assess Cyber Risk Through FICO Enterprise Security Score

    Woolpert has partnered with data analytics firm FICO to help government agencies evaluate their cybersecurity risks through the latter’s Enterprise Security Score. Woolpert will integrate FICO’s ESS with its EC:Secure platforms and services portfolio under the partnership, FICO said Monday. “We’re taking FICO’s advanced analytics to the federal government and enabling agencies to benchmark their performance, […] More

  • IBM’s Keith Salzman: Health IT Platforms Should Be Designed With Cybersecurity in Mind - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Keith Salzman: Health IT Platforms Should Be Designed With Cybersecurity in Mind

    Keith Salzman, chief medical information officer for global business services at IBM’s federal business, has said that health information technology platforms should be designed for users and should be equipped with cybersecurity tools and features that protect privacy in order to realize the benefits of health care digitization. Salzman told Dan Chenok, executive director of IBM’s Center for the […] More

  • Tech Industry Vet Praveen Asthana Joins Forcepoint as Chief Marketing Officer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tech Industry Vet Praveen Asthana Joins Forcepoint as Chief Marketing Officer

    Praveen Asthana, former senior vice president at Oracle, has joined cybersecurity company Forcepoint as chief marketing officer. Forcepoint said  Monday Asthana will oversee global marketing for the company and its four business areas including cloud security, network security, global governments and data and insider threat security. Asthana will also report to Forcepoint CEO Matthew Moynahan and support the […] More

  • ACT I's Michael Niggel Leads Panel Discussion at US-Japan Defense Tech Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ACT I’s Michael Niggel Leads Panel Discussion at US-Japan Defense Tech Forum

    Michael Niggel, CEO of Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, delivered the leadoff remarks in a cybersecurity panel discussion that was part of the 28th U.S.-Japan Defense Technology Forum at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His speech at the event covered security cooperation efforts between the U.S. and Japan, preparation strategies for potential security threats and security requirements in the […] More

  • DARPA Eyes Cyber Hunting Tools for Enterprise Networks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes Cyber Hunting Tools for Enterprise Networks

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency seeks proposals for the development of cyber hunting tools that will help boost the defenses of enterprise networks and offer cyber threat characterization, detection and protection capacity. DARPA said in a release published Wednesday on the FedBizOpps website that the agency expects to award multiple procurement contracts for proposals that support four out of […] More

  • Carl De Groote: Cisco Helps DoD Migrate Joint Regional Security Stacks to Cloud - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carl De Groote: Cisco Helps DoD Migrate Joint Regional Security Stacks to Cloud

    Carl De Groote, senior director for the Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems, has said the company collaborates with DoD to facilitate the migration of Joint Regional Security Stacks to the cloud, Defense Systems reported Thursday. JRSS is a set of tools designed to detect breaches, provide firewall functions and perform virtual routing and forwarding, enterprise […] More

  • In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership

    In-Q-Tel has partnered with Evident.io to help the Pleasanton, California-based technology company further develop a compliance automation and security platform designed to help U.S. intelligence agencies secure their data infrastructure in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments. The company’s Evident Security Platform is an agent-less system that is built on AWS’ application programming interfaces and works to automate security […] More

  • Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Elected to Textron Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James Elected to Textron Board

    Deborah Lee James, former secretary of the U.S. Air Force, will officially join Textron on July 1 as a member of the board of directors. Textron said Thursday she will bring three decades of homeland and national security experience in the public and private sectors to the company. “Deborah’s deep expertise in national security, government procurement, strategic planning, cybersecurity, logistics […] More

  • Cisco, IBM Forge Alliance to Integrate Cybersecurity Offerings - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, IBM Forge Alliance to Integrate Cybersecurity Offerings

    Cisco and IBM have partnered to integrate their cybersecurity offerings and foster collaboration on threat intelligence. IBM said Wednesday Cisco will create new applications for IBM’s QRadar security analytics platform and the first two apps will work to help security teams understand and mitigate advanced threats. The Cisco-made apps will be available on IBM’s Security App Exchange system. IBM will […] More

  • SAP NS2, CounterTack Form Enterprise Security Partnership; Mark Testoni Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP NS2, CounterTack Form Enterprise Security Partnership; Mark Testoni Comments

    SAP National Security Services and CounterTack have forged a strategic partnership to facilitate the delivery of an enterprise security tool to government and commercial clients. CounterTack said Wednesday it will integrate its Endpoint Threat Platform with the SAP HANA in-memory database management system in an effort to accelerate data processing operations and provide security analysts with predictive […] More