The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded cryptography and data sciences company Duality Technologies a $14.5 million contract to help develop an encryption concept for privacy-sensitive applications such as health care and finance.

Forcepoint has introduced a hardware platform designed to safeguard the unidirectional flow of data between two networks.

George Kamis, chief technology officer for global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, has said that effective cross-domain defenses require barriers such as firewalls that enable smooth collaboration without exposing critical data to cyber threats.

CNSI has appointed technology leader Mike Jin as senior vice president, chief information officer and chief information security officer to lead information and data security, the company announced on Monday. 

Executive Mosaic is honored to present Vice. Adm. Robert Sharp, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, as an inductee into the 2020 edition of the Wash100 Award for his efforts to advance NGA’s strategic goals surrounding its recruitment process, information technology initiatives and emerging technologies.

Industry leaders recommended during a public forum several changes to the Office of Management and Budget’s draft action plan issued in June for the Federal Data Strategy and one of those is the need to focus on data literacy, Federal Times reported Monday.

Mapbox and Spatial Networks have partnered to develop a location-based technology to aid field users in military planning, humanitarian and disaster response missions.

Eric Jung, commercial solutions for classified program director at Perspecta Labs, wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on C4ISRNET that there are three approaches agencies can implement to ensure the security of government data on commercial networks and one is through streamlined CSfC deployment of mobile applications.

Quinten Johnson, formerly vice president of federal government sales at Nokia, has joined Juniper Networks as director of civilian sales, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday.

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has issued a request for information for vendors that could assist the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity in the collection of data from multi-camera video networks.

Communications firm Transition Networks has unveiled a new series of media converters designed to protect data for military, government and financial organizations. The company said Monday its Mini Gigabit Ethernet Unidirectional Media Converters regulate the flow of data to a single direction on network links.

Bill Wright, director of federal government affairs at Splunk, has said the Pentagon is facing challenges in managing the vast amount of data it collects from the battlefield due to the rapidly changing and growing technologies used by the military.