Carahsoft Technology Corp. will offer Paxata’s adaptive data preparation application and platform to government customers. Paxata built the platform to automate and govern data integration and enrichment process functions, Paxata said Thursday. Michael Shrader, vice president of intelligence and innovative solutions at Carahsoft, said Paxata sought to fill a technology gap between a data management system provided by Cloudera […] More

FireEye has unveiled its Global Threat Intelligence Sharing initiative to help customers exchange threat intelligence with community members such as industry partners and establish a unified cyber defense effort. The company said Friday the initiative aims to leverage FireEye’s Community Threat Intelligence platform, the FireEye Dynamic Threat Intelligence cloud and Adaptive Defense strategy in order to enable real-time sharing […] More

The U.S. Defense Department has chosen WBB to receive the agency’s Nunn-Perry Award for the company’s work to mentor a woman-owned small business. WBB collaborated with Ohio-based information technology firm Edaptive Computing under the DoD Mentor-Protege program, WBB said Monday. “WBB believes the true success of this program is the long term relationship and continued […] More

FireEye has updated its endpoint threat prevention platform in an effort to help customers address security threats through an adaptive technology. The new endpoint threat prevention product is designed to detect, analyze and respond to attacks against on-premise, remote and mobile endpoints, FireEye said Thursday. David DeWalt, chairman and CEO of FireEye, said the company is […] More

BAE Systems will create a prototype electronic warfare technology for the second phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program aimed at countering radar threats. The company said Monday its EW system will employ software algorithms intended to detect and obstruct adversarial radars electronically. DARPA awarded BAE a three-year, $21.6 million contract under the […] More

Verizon has partnered with Hitachi Data Systems to offer the Hitachi Content Platform adaptive cloud tiering technology via the Verizon Cloud Marketplace and deliver enterprise content management and hybrid cloud functions. Siki Giunta, senior vice president of cloud services at Verizon Enterprise Solutions, said Monday that the partnership aims to support the business of Verizon Cloud customers by facilitating efficiency in […] More

Citrix has opened a new 170,000-square-foot office in Raleigh, North Carolina’s warehouse district that will house Citrix Mobile Workspace tools and work to integrate Citrix technologies. The company said it aims to facilitate creativity, productivity, collaboration and employee engagement as well as highlight its vision of a mobility-enabled enterprise. “Raleigh is experiencing tremendous business growth and has firmly established itself as […] More

ViON has unveiled a new cloud service designed to help government and commercial organizations secure information technology infrastructure through on-premise private cloud environments. The ViON on Demand program offers service level agreements for enterprise IT maintenance, upgrade and managed work, ViON said Thursday. Tom Frana, ViON’s CEO, said the company aims for clients to save […] More

Lockheed Martin has completed a series of initial flight tests on its new beam control turret designed to provide military aircraft with a 360-degree coverage area to engage missiles or other aircraft with laser weapons. The company said Monday it worked with the University of Notre Dame and the Air Force Research Laboratory to demonstrate the functions of the Aero-adaptive Aero-optic Beam Control turret, which was […] More

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity will hold an industry event at the College Park in Maryland on Oct. 29 and Oct. 30 to discuss and demonstrate various programs. Attendees will be able to speak with IARPA program managers and discuss career opportunities at the agency, IARPA said Friday. The agency will also brief attendees on various programs […] More

RSA and TeleSign have partnered to add a phone-based verification service to an RSA technology offering that works to help organizations prevent fraudulent transactions on their web portals. Telesign said Wednesday it will provide voice or SMS one-time passwords for users of RSA’s Adaptive Authentication fraud detection platform. Adaptive Authentication is designed to evaluate login […] More

Information security may be one of the key areas in government information technology that needs automation through continuous monitoring, Chris LaPoint, SolarWinds vice president of product management, said Monday. He cited SolarWind’s latest public sector survey, which found that many agency IT departments do not consider infosec as a top skill slated for possible automation […] More