The General Services Administration has updated a special item number on the IT Schedule 70 in order to provide federal agencies access to an expanded range of cybersecurity support services meant to protect mission-critical platforms and high-value assets.

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The General Services Administration has selected By Light Professional IT Services to offer cybersecurity services under three special item numbers on the GSA IT Schedule 70 contract. By Light said Tuesday it secured positions on the penetration testing, incident response and risk and vulnerability assessment SINs. “These SINs provide an opportunity for timely, enterprise wide […] More

The General Services Administration has posted a request for information needed to modernize the agency’s Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services. Established in 2016, the HACS consists of four special item numbers that function to distribute cybersecurity services encompassing penetration testing, incident response, cyber hunt and vulnerability assessment across agencies, GSA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday. The […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected SRI International to construct an artificial intelligence platform with machine learning features to gradually improve task performance. The company said Wednesday it will perform this work under DARPA’s Lifelong Learning Machines Program. Modern AI systems may be prone to catastrophic forgetting that occurs when new content disrupts previous information, SRI […] More

BAE Systems Inc. has won a $9.2 million contract to develop iterative reasoning, association and learning software for the U.S. Air Force‘s adaptive decision-making efforts. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will develop the software to help automate indications, warning and situational awareness data processing for battle management command control and communication. Work will occur in Massachusetts through Sept. […] More

A Sierra Nevada Corp-built spacecraft has been subjected to a captive carry test at NASA‘s Armstrong Flight Research Center under the second phase of flight tests designed to prepare the vehicle for a future orbital flight. SNC said Wednesday Dream Chaser tests are part of a Space Act Agreement the company and the space agency signed through the Commercial […] More

The General Services Administration has selected General Dynamics‘ information technology business to offer a range of cybersecurity services under four special item numbers of GSA’s IT Schedule 70 contract vehicle. General Dynamics said Thursday it is one of 20 companies that have been authorized to provide services to the government under all four “highly adaptive” cybersecurity service SINs. GSA […] More

BAE Systems has developed a reconfigurable chip that is designed to help radio systems adapt to changing environments in the field. The company said Tuesday the Microwave Array Technology for Reconfigurable Integrated Circuits chip was funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency as part of the Adaptive RF Technology program. DARPA’s ART program aims to develop communication […] More

The Australian defense department’s science and technology group has partnered with the University of South Australia to produce adaptive camouflage cells that work to change tanks’ color patterns to match the environment, The Lead South Australia reported Tuesday. Caleb Radford writes the camouflage cell technology was tested on a tank at the Australian military’s Cultana training facility and the trial results will […] More

Leidos has received a contract modification from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that brings the value of its contract on the Adaptive Radar Countermeasures program to $33.2 million. The Defense Department said Monday the modification itself is worth $12.9 million and covers ARC work through December 2017. Leidos will perform work at locations in Virginia, New York […] More

Julie Cullivan, chief information officer of FireEye, has said the company uses an adaptive framework to defend its enterprise systems against a security breach, V3.co.uk reported Tuesday. She was quoted as saying that FireEye has been a target of attacks because it releases specific reports about incidents linked to hacker groups and nation-states. “We’re tightly […] More

The ThreatScape suite from iSight Partners is now available to clients of Tripwire‘s security software under the latter’s Adaptive Threat Protection program. ThreatScape’s inclusion allows Tripwire Enterprise access to the API’s cloud-based “indicators of compromise,” where intelligence to speed up threat detection and alerts analysis could be derived, Tripwire said Thursday. The combination also offers customers the ability to contextualize alerts, identify suspect file changes […] More