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  • MITRE Seeks Participants for Test on Text-Based IFR Clearance Technology - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MITRE Seeks Participants for Test on Text-Based IFR Clearance Technology

    MITRE is seeking ForeFlight users to help test a new mobile-based technology being developed to streamline the delivery process of instrument flight rules clearances. The test will support the former’s study on the use of mobile devices to deliver IFR clearances at airports that do not employ pre-departure clearance/data comm clearance, ForeFlight said Thursday. The study aims […] More

  • Mitre Seeks Cybersecurity Products for Evaluation Against ATT&CK Knowledge Base - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Seeks Cybersecurity Products for Evaluation Against ATT&CK Knowledge Base

    Mitre plans to evaluate commercial endpoint detection response products against its globally accessible cyberattack knowledge base and seeks the participation of interested cybersecurity vendors. The company said Thursday it will evaluate EDRs against its ATT&CK knowledge base in aims to enhance industry and customer cyberattack countermeasures. ATT&CK builds on attack detection analytics from academic and […] More

  • Mitre Appoints 5 to Visiting Fellows Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Appoints 5 to Visiting Fellows Program

    Mitre has appointed five individuals to the nonprofit company’s Visiting Fellows Program that aims to help address complex national problems. The nonprofit said Thursday its newly appointed visiting fellows possess a background in the organization’s strategic focus areas of national defense, cybersecurity and health. Richard Byrne, senior vice president of programs and technology at Mitre, said the […] More

  • Mitre Study Cites Challenges to AI Adoption in Health Care - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Study Cites Challenges to AI Adoption in Health Care

    A new study conducted by Mitre-led independent advisory group JASON for the Department of Health and Human Services has listed several challenges to adoption of AI platforms in the health care field. Those include issues associated with the use of the technology in clinical practice; confluence of AI and smart devices for disease and health […] More

  • Endgame to Help Secure Navy Assets With Endpoint Protection Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Endgame to Help Secure Navy Assets With Endpoint Protection Tech

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Endgame a contract to provide an endpoint protection platform for the U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. Tenth Fleet to protect the service branch’s critical infrastructure from cyber threats. The company said Thursday FCC/C10F will implement the company’s platform to safeguard mechanical, electrical, navigation and weapons systems, hull assets, control units and more than 500,000 […] More

  • LaVerne Council Joins Grant Thornton as Enterprise Digital Strategy & Innovation Lead - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LaVerne Council Joins Grant Thornton as Enterprise Digital Strategy & Innovation Lead

    LaVerne Council, a more than 30-year public and private sector veteran, has been appointed national managing principal for enterprise digital strategy and innovation at Grant Thornton. Grant Thornton said Thursday Council will oversee enterprise digital and technological strategies and products designed to help chief information officers address information technology challenges within their organizations. She will report to Srikant Sastry, […] More

  • Women of Color Magazine Recognizes Mitre Employees for STEM Contributions; Julie Gravallese Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Women of Color Magazine Recognizes Mitre Employees for STEM Contributions; Julie Gravallese Comments

    Seven Mitre employees have received recognition from the Women of Color magazine for their contributions to the field of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The nonprofit said Tuesday the awards were presented at the two-day 2017 Women of Color STEM Conference that kicked off on Friday in Detroit, Michigan. The conference honors multicultural women across U.S. for their technical achievements, […] More

  • Mitre, Japan's ICT Org Partner to Help Secure 2020 Summer Olympics - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre, Japan’s ICT Org Partner to Help Secure 2020 Summer Olympics

    Mitre and Japan-based National Institute of Information and Communications Technology have agreed to examine potential cyber and physical security measures for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo as part of a memorandum of understanding. The agreement calls for both parties to explore cybersecurity, sensor and artificial intelligence tools that can work to help secure the international sporting event, […] More

  • IARPA Selects Partners to Develop Methods for Evaluating the Intelligence Community Workforce - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Selects Partners to Develop Methods for Evaluating the Intelligence Community Workforce

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded research contracts to select industry partners as part of a program to develop continuously sensing, passive and unobtrusive methods to evaluate an individual’s cognitive, physiological and psychological aspects. Lockheed Martin, the University of Memphis, the University of Southern California and the University of Notre Dame would each […] More

  • Crunchy Data Unveils Open Source Security Compliance Automation Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Crunchy Data Unveils Open Source Security Compliance Automation Platform

    Crunchy Data has unveiled an open source project with the goal to help agencies automate compliance with the Defense Department‘s security standards dubbed Security Technical Implementation Guide. The company said Tuesday it developed the PostgreSQL STIG Automation project to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s efforts to accelerate the authority-to-operate certification process for cloud platforms. The Defense Information Systems Agency […] More

  • IARPA Awards Contracts for Research on Human-Machine Geopolitical Forecasting Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Awards Contracts for Research on Human-Machine Geopolitical Forecasting Tech

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has awarded research contracts under the Hybrid Forecasting Competition program that aims to enhance the accuracy of geopolitical event prediction methods. IARPA selected HRL Laboratories, Raytheon‘s BBN Technologies subsidiary and the University of Southern California to conduct research on hybrid forecasting systems under the HFC program, the Office of the Director of […] More

  • Air Force Seeks Tech Advancements to Address VLF/LF Comms Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks Tech Advancements to Address VLF/LF Comms Challenges

    The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center has issued a broad agency announcement to solicit science and technology ideas to address “urgent” problems with very low frequency and low frequency communications platforms. A BAA document published Monday on FedBizOpps says the U.S. Air Force aims to identify and assess potential advancements in key focus areas that include […] More