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  • SAIC Subcontracts Fulcrum for Cybercom Operations Support; Jeff Handy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Subcontracts Fulcrum for Cybercom Operations Support; Jeff Handy Comments

    Fulcrum has received a subcontract from Science Applications International Corp. to provide technology and operations support services to the U.S. Cyber Command. Fulcrum will work to help SAIC provide cyber strategy planning assistance, digital and non-digital information services related to Internet-of-Things security, cyber operations, and intelligence support to Cybercom under a potential five-year, $460 million multiple-award […] More

  • SAIC Partners With NCI to Support Cybercom Missions; Brian Clark Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Partners With NCI to Support Cybercom Missions; Brian Clark Comments

    NCI has received a subcontract from Science Applications International Corp. to support cybersecurity operations of the U.S. Cyber Command. SAIC is one of the six prime contractors on a potential $460 million Cybercom mission services contract awarded in May and will collaborate with NCI in efforts to help protect and manage Defense Department networks, NCI said Thursday. Cybercom seeks to acquire new […] More

  • SAIC Subcontracts Root9B for Cybercom & DoD Support - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC Subcontracts Root9B for Cybercom & DoD Support

    Science Applications International Corp. has awarded root9B a subcontract to deliver manpower, services and technologies to the U.S. Cyber Command and U.S. Defense Department. Root9B will help SAIC support Cybercom’s functions to plan, integrate, synchronize, coordinate and conduct defense and operations of DoD components, root9B said Friday. SAIC is one of six prime awardees on a potential five-year, $460 million contract for mission support services to […] More

  • Vencore Lands 1st Task Order via $460M Cybercom IDIQ Contract; Mac Curtis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vencore Lands 1st Task Order via $460M Cybercom IDIQ Contract; Mac Curtis Comments

    Vencore has secured the first task order to provide mission support to the U.S. Cyber Command under a potential five-year, $460 million contract vehicle the company won a position on. The order is worth $89 million and the company is scheduled to commence work in June, Vencore said Wednesday. “We are honored to expand our support and expertise to this critical […] More

  • Kelly Goggin, Mark Redford Take New Roles at Constellation West; Lisa Wolford Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kelly Goggin, Mark Redford Take New Roles at Constellation West; Lisa Wolford Comments

    Constellation West has promoted Kelly Goggin, a former legislative liaison of U.S. Cyber Command, and Mark Redford, a former U.S. Air Force officer, to new roles within the company. The company said Thursday  Goggin, previously a director of business development, will support strategic BD and execute programs for existing contracts with the federal sector and other markets in her new senior BD director […] More

  • GovCon Firms Eye Digital Defense Contracting Activity; Nadia Short Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GovCon Firms Eye Digital Defense Contracting Activity; Nadia Short Comments

    Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and General Dynamics are potential bidders on the Defense Department’s $460 million digital services contract in support of U.S. Cyber Command, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. Chris Strohm writes the Pentagon has increased spending on cyber over the past two fiscal years even as spending declines on other programs. Nadia Short, vice president and […] More

  • Keith Alexander: IronNet Secures $32.5M in Funds for Cyber Defense Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Keith Alexander: IronNet Secures $32.5M in Funds for Cyber Defense Platform

    IronNet Cybersecurity has obtained $32.5 million in a Trident Capital Cybersecurity-led funding round to further develop a platform designed to protect enterprises’ network infrastructures from potential cyber threats. IronNet’s cyber defense tool works to detect anomalous network patterns through the use of petabyte-scale analytics and behavioral models, IronNet said Sunday. Ted Schlein, general partner at […] More

  • Deltek: Cybersecurity, Intell Analysis Projects to Drive DoD Big Data Spend in 2016-2019 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek: Cybersecurity, Intell Analysis Projects to Drive DoD Big Data Spend in 2016-2019

    Deltek has forecast the U.S. Defense Department will increase spending on big data platforms and services by 8.7 percent year-over-year from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2019. Alex Rossino, a Deltek principal research analyst, wrote in a piece published Tuesday on C4ISR & Networks that the research firm expects DoD’s efforts to manage cybersecurity threats and […] More

  • Report: Cybercom Eyes Cyber Defense Tools From Endgame - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Cybercom Eyes Cyber Defense Tools From Endgame

    U.S. Cyber Command plans to acquire tools from cyber arms vendor Endgame for the military military to test security and find vulnerabilities in the “dot-mil” network domain, Nextgov reported Thursday. Aliya Sternstein writes Endgame offers software products designed to exploit bugs in a network. The U.S. Air Force has issued a proposed contract action for potential purchases Tuesday and […] More

  • GSA Issues RFI for Cyber National Mission Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Issues RFI for Cyber National Mission Force

    The General Services Administration has issued a request for information to gather ideas from industry on an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to provide support services for a proposed nationwide cyber force, Defense Systems reported Monday. Mark Pomerleau writes the GSA’s Federal Systems Integration and Management Center plans to set up the Cyber National Mission Force in partnership with the U.S. Cyber Command. Pomerleau […] More

  • Military Cyber Vet Rick Lipsey Joins LMI as Senior Strategic Cyber Lead - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Military Cyber Vet Rick Lipsey Joins LMI as Senior Strategic Cyber Lead

    Rick Lipsey, a former vice commander of the 24th Air Force within U.S. Cyber Command, has taken the role of senior strategic cyber lead at nonprofit government consulting firm LMI. He will lead LMI’s efforts to expand its cyber-related portfolio, the company said Wednesday. “Decisions about how to integrate technology and mitigate cyber threats are fundamentally operational exercises that […] More

  • Maryann Hirsch: Agencies' Cyber Budget Requests to Continue Growth - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maryann Hirsch: Agencies’ Cyber Budget Requests to Continue Growth

    Government agencies will continue to see an increase in their budget requests for cyber operations even as overall budgets remain flat, according to KCG President Maryann Hirsch. In a piece for Security Magazine published Friday, Hirsch wrote that U.S. Cyber Command more than doubled its funding to $447 million in 2013 and the Department of Homeland Security‘s cybersecurity operations funding grew $792 million […] More