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  • Natl Gallery of Art Posts Managed IT Security Services RFI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Natl Gallery of Art Posts Managed IT Security Services RFI

    The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., has issued a request for information on potential industry sources to support the museum’s information systems security programs. A sources sought notice posted Sept. 20 on FedBizOpps stated the looks to contract with an IT security company to develop, manage and implement security controls across the facility as well as create a toolset or an […] More

  • NIST Seeks Impact Studies on Federal Tech Transfer Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Seeks Impact Studies on Federal Tech Transfer Programs

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Journal of Technology Transfer have launched a new prize challenge that seeks participants to develop impact studies on technology transferred from federal laboratories. Interested parties will write a paper that describes the economic and/or societal impacts of technology created in federal labs and transferred outside of those facilities, […] More

  • Carahsoft Adds Qmulos' Automated Security Compliance Apps to GSA Schedule, SEWP Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft Adds Qmulos’ Automated Security Compliance Apps to GSA Schedule, SEWP Contracts

    Carahsoft has agreed to serve as the master government aggregator of Qmulos‘ security compliance applications and offer the tools to government clients via two different contract vehicles run by the General Services Administration and NASA. Qmulos said Tuesday its Q-Audit and Q-Compliance apps are designed to give users real-time visibility into management, operational and technical controls for information technology risk management, security and compliance monitoring programs. Carahsoft will help Qmulos market the Splunk-powered […] More

  • ViON's Tony Encinias: Cyber Analytics Can Help Governments Predict Attacks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ViON’s Tony Encinias: Cyber Analytics Can Help Governments Predict Attacks

    Tony Encinias, vice president of public sector strategy at ViON, has discussed the role of cyber analytics as a service in work by governments to mitigate potential threats against systems and information in an interview with GovTech posted Friday. Encinias told the publication government agencies have adopted cybersecurity tools as a first step to analyze networks and address breaches but organizations experience difficulty in […] More

  • Carahsoft, OSIsoft Partner to Offer Sensor Data Analysis & Integration Software in Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, OSIsoft Partner to Offer Sensor Data Analysis & Integration Software in Public Sector

    OSIsoft has partnered with Carahsoft to offer public sector organizations the former’s sensor-based data capturing and integration software through the latter’s contracts under the General Services Administration‘s Schedule 70 and NASA‘s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V. The partnership also seeks to identify new methods to help customer agencies achieve their missions with OSISoft’s PI System, the company said Wednesday. Steven Sarnecki, vice president of the U.S. federal and public sector […] More

  • EmeSec to Offer Training and Education Package to Help Clients Meet Controlled Unclassified Information Readiness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    EmeSec to Offer Training and Education Package to Help Clients Meet Controlled Unclassified Information Readiness

    EmeSec has unveiled a new suite of training services established to help companies prepare for the compliance requirements of the Federal Acquisition Requirements and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations related to controlled but unclassified information. The company said Wednesday it will help government and private contractors assess CUI readiness, validate compliance to requirements mentioned on a National Institute of […] More

  • NIST to Back 12 Manufacturing Partnership Centers in US, Puerto Rico - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST to Back 12 Manufacturing Partnership Centers in US, Puerto Rico

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology will obligate $36 million in annual  funds to 12 organizations to run Manufacturing Extension Partnership centers that will support small- and medium-sized manufacturers. NIST said Thursday the organizations will operate the MEP facilities in Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Utah, Vermont and Puerto Rico under cooperative agreements that […] More

  • DLT, FinalCode Form File Sharing Security Partnership; Jeremy Young Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DLT, FinalCode Form File Sharing Security Partnership; Jeremy Young Comments

    DLT Solutions and FinalCode have teamed up to provide file collaboration and sharing security platforms to public sector clients. FinalCode said Tuesday it will integrate its file security-based digital rights management platform with DLT’s portfolio of information security tools. Jeremy Young, vice president of cybersecurity for DLT, said the combination of products as a result […] More

  • HHS' ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HHS’ ONC Selects Winners of Blockchain Health IT & Research Challenge

    The Department of Health and Human Services‘ Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has unveiled the winners of the “Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge.” HHS said Monday winning papers were selected based on criteria that included proposed systems and recommendations for market viability, capacity to inform and foster transformative change, creativity […] More

  • NIST Seeks Industry, Govt Input on Cyber Trends, Challenges - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NIST Seeks Industry, Govt Input on Cyber Trends, Challenges

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has asked government agencies and industry to provide information on the current and future cybersecurity challenges and trends as well as novel approaches to address such challenges. NIST said in a Federal Register notice posted Wednesday the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will use the responses from the request for […] More

  • CompTIA Standard Aims to Help IT Firms Establish Cybersecurity Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CompTIA Standard Aims to Help IT Firms Establish Cybersecurity Program

    Information technology trade group CompTIA has established a new cybersecurity standard with the goal to help IT companies prepare for breach incidents. CompTIA said Monday its Channel Standard for Cybersecurity is based on the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity and suggests threat identification, protection, detection, response and recovery strategies. “Adherence to these industry standards and best practices […] More

  • US Govt Agencies Detail Human Brain-Like Computer Development Vision in White Paper - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    US Govt Agencies Detail Human Brain-Like Computer Development Vision in White Paper

    Four U.S. government agencies have released a white paper on a collective vision to develop a computer that can operate like the human brain. The white paper published Friday detailed what the agencies view as technical priorities, challenges, opportunities and research and development issues related to the White House-led Nanotechnology-Inspired Grand Challenge for Future Computing program. Collaborating agencies for the paper […] More