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  • FEMA to Adopt Compusearch Acquisition Mgmt System; Reid Jackson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FEMA to Adopt Compusearch Acquisition Mgmt System; Reid Jackson Comments

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency will adopt an acquisition management system designed by Compusearch to act as FEMA’s official contract writing system. FEMA will use the PRISM system to interface with the agency’s financial management system and more than 300 contracting professionals and other acquisition workers at the agency will have access to the tool, Compusearch said Friday. The Department of […] More

  • DHS S&T Awards OTS Contract to Pulzze Systems for Internet of Things Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS S&T Awards OTS Contract to Pulzze Systems for Internet of Things Security

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has awarded the first Innovation Other Transaction Solicitation contract worth $200,000 to California-based small business Pulzze Systems to help secure the Internet of Things. The OTS award requires optimization of situational awareness and security of the Internet of Things, including the 16 critical infrastructure sectors tracked by DHS, the department said […] More

  • CACI, FAA, DHS Evaluate Drone Detection Technology at Commercial Airports - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI, FAA, DHS Evaluate Drone Detection Technology at Commercial Airports

    CACI International, the Federal Aviation Administration and the Department of Homeland Security have conducted research on technologies that work to detect unmanned aircraft systems in commercial airports. FAA said Thursday the program seeks to address safety and security concerns regarding unauthorized UAS flown near airports and manned airplanes. The agency noted that it receives more than 100 reports a month […] More

  • FCW: DHS Calls Off $675M Competition for Cyber Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FCW: DHS Calls Off $675M Competition for Cyber Services Contract

    The Department of Homeland Security has informed vendors that it has cancelled the agency’s $675 million Cyber Centric Mission Support Services acquisition program, FCW reported Tuesday. Mark Rockwell writes the contract would have covered administrative and technical support to DHS’ Office of Cybersecurity and Communications as well as its National Protection and Programs Directorate. A DHS contracting officer told […] More

  • Chad Woolf: AWS Guidance Aims to Help Agencies Secure Cloud Network Connections - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Chad Woolf: AWS Guidance Aims to Help Agencies Secure Cloud Network Connections

    Amazon Web Services has developed a framework meant to help agencies and vendors architect Trusted Internet Connection-ready cloud computing tools that comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s moderate baseline security requirements. The Guidance for TIC Readiness on AWS was produced after the cloud service provider completed its FedRAMP-Trusted Internet Connection Overlay testing program, Chad Woolf, AWS’ director […] More

  • Blackstone Technology Group Helps DHS Build Mobile DevOps Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blackstone Technology Group Helps DHS Build Mobile DevOps Platform

    The Department of Homeland Security has collaborated with Blackstone Technology Group to develop a shared service platform for agency information technology professionals to build, test and implement mobile applications. Blackstone Technology said Wednesday the DHS’s Office of the Chief Information Officer has featured the development-and-operations platform Carwash as an innovation project model in the department’s IT strategic […] More

  • Sevatec Awarded $65M USCIS Customer Service System Maintenance Support Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec Awarded $65M USCIS Customer Service System Maintenance Support Task Order

    Sevatec has received a potential $65 million multi-year task order from the Department of Homeland Security to provide application development and maintenance support services to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. The company will work to provide consolidated user interfaces, automated code and operational maintenance, security, code testing and continuous integration services to help USCIS […] More

  • Adventium Enterprises Awarded Contract for DHS Medical Device Security Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Adventium Enterprises Awarded Contract for DHS Medical Device Security Contract

    Minnesota-based Adventium Enterprises will work to upgrade the security of medical devices under a $2.2 million contract as part of the Department of Homeland Security science and technology directorate’s Intrinsically Secure, Open, and Safe Control of Essential LayErS project. DHS said Tuesday the project aims to protect medical devices from cyber threats. “Many medical devices are networked into hospital […] More

  • Smiths Detection to Build Radiation ID System for DHS; Stephen Esposito Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection to Build Radiation ID System for DHS; Stephen Esposito Comments

    Smiths Detection has been awarded a five-year, $1.27 million contract to supply a radiation detection system to the Department of Homeland Security. The company will deliver its RadSeeker handheld radioisotope detector and identifier to DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Smiths Detection said Wednesday. “Under a competitively-awarded contract RadSeeker was developed in cooperation with the […] More

  • Iris ID Provides Biometrics Tech for CBP Pilot; Charles Koo Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Iris ID Provides Biometrics Tech for CBP Pilot; Charles Koo Comments

    Iris ID has deployed the company’s iris biometric technology for a Customs and Border Protection pilot intended to help identify non-U.S. citizens who pass through the U.S.-Mexico border, Planet Biometrics reported Wednesday. Iris ID installed six kiosks equipped with iCAM D1000 iris-face capture systems at the Otay Mesa port of entry in Southern California in order […] More

  • Sevatec Lands EAGLE II Contract to Help Manage Coast Guard's Intell Data Online - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sevatec Lands EAGLE II Contract to Help Manage Coast Guard’s Intell Data Online

    Sevatec has been awarded a five-year prime contract to help the U.S. Coast Guard‘s Intelligence Coordination Center maintain its classified and unclassified web content. Sevatec said Tuesday it will collaborate with BAE Systems to customize web-based technology for the companies to support intelligence data and products on ICC websites. Sonny Kakar, CEO of Sevatec, noted the company also […] More