The U.S. Air Force has issued a request for information on commercial weather data services that could help address the Defense Department’s requirements for space-based environmental monitoring weather information. The remote sensing systems directorate of the service branch’s space and missile systems center asked interested companies to submit white papers as responses to the RFI […] More

The U.S. Army has issued a request for information on the availability of a cellular transmission system that the military branch can integrate with its Warfighter Information Network-Tactical infrastructure. In a notice posted Jan. 14 on FedBizOpps, the Army said it is looking for potential sources of 4G LTE technology for WIN-T Increment 1 wireless data transport operations. The […] More

The Federal Aviation Administration has extended its contract with SRA International, a subsidiary of technology services contractor CSRA, to continue to provide support services for the FAA’s security operations center. The FAA said in a Jan. 14 notice posted on FedBizOpps that the contract extension is a “bridge contract action” that aims to prevent the discontinuation of […] 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

Airbus’ defense and space business has won a potential $600 million contract from Inmarsat to construct the first two communications satellites for integration with the Inmarsat-6 satellite constellation. The two I-6 satellites will work to provide Ka- and L-band mobile communications services to Inmarsat clients, Inmarsat said Wednesday. Airbus is scheduled to hand over the […] More

The Department of Homeland Security has awarded CenturyLink a contract to extend Einstein 3 Accelerated intrusion detection system-related services to other federal agencies that lack access to such support through their current Internet service providers. CenturyLink said Monday the award covers email filtering, domain name system protection and signature-based intrusion prevention services. DHS’ Einstein 3 Accelerated system works […] More

The State Department has called on industry to submit ideas for the management of the agency’s email in compliance with federal requirements. The department released a request for information Monday as part of market research for commercial off-the-shelf systems and modification of existing hardware and software tools for email management. It seeks storage, search, auditing, extraction, […] More

The U.S. Transportation Command wants information on potential contractors that can provide command, control, cyber, communications and collaboration support for the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command. Transcom said in a FedBizOpps notice published Nov. 9 that it is in search of vendors that can provide cyber defense, life-cycle sustainment, software management, automatic data processing equipment degaussing and disposal […] More

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has awarded AT&T a contract to help defend federal civilian networks against cyber attacks through the DHS-run Einstein 3 Accelerated intrusion prevention system. Chris Smith , vice president of technology at AT&T’s government solutions business, wrote in a blog entry posted Wednesday the company will help implement intrusion countermeasures for the protection […] More

PwC has released a report that charts how defense agencies in 60 countries allocate their budgets and strategize in the face of security challenges worldwide. The company said Wednesday it found that many NATO members and partner countries decreased their defense spending in recent years due to fiscal and economic factors as well as challenging […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on Oct. 1 to discuss the agency’s Leveraging the Analog Domain for Security broad agency announcement with interested participants. DARPA said in a notice posted Sept. 11 on FedBizOpps that the program will focus on the intersection of the analog and digital domains as part of […] More

CGI has been selected to provide enterprise resource planning services to Genesee County in Michigan under a five-year contract. The county will have access to budget, financial, procurement and human resource management tools via the CGI Advantage360 software as a service, CGI said Monday. “Our innovative, SaaS-based solution provides local government with state of the […] More