IBM has agreed to provide Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory access to a company-made brain-inspired chip architecture as part of a collaborative project to build supercomputer systems. The company said Tuesday LLNL will receive a 16-chip TrueNorth neurosynaptic system that is designed to process data equivalent to 16 million neurons and four billion synapses. IBM’s research business developed […] More

Progeny Systems and Decisive Analytics have received separate contracts from the Office of Naval Research to help build tools for synchronization of the U.S. Navy‘s intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes ONR awarded $2.3 million to Decisive Analytics and $2.1 million to Progeny under the Exchange of Actionable Information at the […] More

Four employees at the nonprofit technology and research organization Mitre Corp. have received the 2016 BEYA Awards for their professional accomplishments during a conference in Philadelphia sponsored by Career Communications Group. CCG presented the Senior Investigator Award to Mallik Rao and the Modern-Day Technology Leader Awards to Diane Hanf, Carla Kendrick and Gina Guillaume-Joseph during the […] More

Israel-based cybersecurity startup Team8 has generated $23 million in a second round of financing backed by investors that include AT&T, Accenture, Nokia, Mitsui and Temasek, Fortune reported Tuesday. Robert Hackett writes Team8 raised a total funding of $41 million after the company received $18 million in 2015 in addition to the series B financing. Nadav […] More

David Young oversees sales activities in the federal government market for Level 3 Communications in his role as a vice president at the multinational telecommunications and Internet service provider company. Broomfield, Colo.-headquartered Level 3 operates a Tier 1 network worldwide and its work for federal agencies includes network security, Internet connections for large enterprises and cloud […] More

The U.S. Air Force has issued a solicitation for white papers on capabilities that support state-driven assessments of the service branch’s distributed adaptive planning and operations under a $9.9 million funding opportunity. A broad agency announcement posted Dec. 23 on FedBizOpps stated that the capability aims to build on periods of reduced communications between forward and operational […] More

Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Navy have concluded a series of flights tests for a long range anti-ship missile prototype performed on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet at Patuxent River Naval Air Station in Maryland. An anti-ship missile mass-simulator vehicle fixed to the Navy Super Hornet was used during the tests to assess flight and handling […] More

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency has evaluated a ground-based Aegis ballistic missile defense system in conjunction with a Raytheon-built Standard Missile-3 Block IB at an outdoor testing complex in Kauai, Hawaii. MDA said Thursday the Aegis Ashore system installed at the Pacific Missile Range Facility fired an SM-3 missile at a medium-range BM target that came […] More

Lockheed Martin has helped build a laser turret system for high-speed aircraft under a collaborative project between the company, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The company said Thursday its Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control turret was integrated onto a business jet during 2014 and 2015 flight tests. The […] More

The U.S. Army has asked industry to supply information on several radar and infrared-based sensor technologies built to provide “quick reaction capability” support to the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency. The Army Contracting Command said in a FedBizOpps notice published Oct. 5 that JIDA will use the platforms to support its programs against improvised threats, including the […] More

Capgemini and Fortinet have forged a cybersecurity partnership in an effort to help customers bolster the resilience of their cyber infrastructure. Capgemini and Fortinet will combine their cybersecurity products and services such as web application security, software-defined datacenter security and security operation centers, the companies said Thursday. “Our partnership with Capgemini is a strategic one, […] More

A new report by Booz Allen Hamilton and not-for-profit ISC says women make up only 10 percent of the information security workforce and have a lower average salary than that of men when it comes to governance, risk and compliance roles. Frost & Sullivan polled nearly 14,000 data security professionals for the Women in Security: Wisely […] More