The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit proposals for a potential four-year, $77 million program that aims to develop systems that will work to detect and respond to cyber attacks on the U.S. power grid. DARPA posted the broad agency announcement for the Rapid Attack Detection, Isolation and Characterization Systems program on […] More

CyberTech Systems and Software has rolled out a cloud-based public safety technology that works to help law enforcement agencies detect and investigate criminal activities. GeoShield C3 is powered by Microsoft‘s Azure Government platform and designed to comply with  transparency and incident response policies set forth by the FBI‘s criminal justice information services division, CyberTech said Nov. 10. Vince […] More

The U.S. Army seeks vendors that can offer situational awareness tools designed for cyberspace and electromagnetic spectrum environments as part of an effort to build a converged CEM SA platform. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Oct. 22, the Army said it will also hold a Cyber Quest exercise in July 2016 to assess the feasibility of integrating commercial technology […] More

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has asked industry to provide information on platforms built to detect insider threats in virtual network environments. NGA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Oct. 13 that it is in search for tools intended to log data on the actions that users and network administrators perform in its virtual infrastructure as well […] More

The U.S. General Services Administration has unveiled a second draft request for proposals for the unrestricted portion of its Alliant II information technology services contract vehicle. GSA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday it is also seeking public input on what objective performance metrics the agency can include in the governmentwide IT acquisition program’s […] More

Lockheed Martin has handed over the first updated PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptors to the U.S. Army. The company said Tuesday it installed new support systems, larger solid-rocket motors and control fins on the PAC-3 MSE interceptor that works to counter threats from aircraft, cruise and tactical ballistic missiles. “As enemy threats grow in number and complexity, these […] More

ActioNet has received a task order modification to provide additional cloud infrastructure support services to the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration on demand. NNSA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Thursday the modification expands ActioNet’s work under a five-year, $6.3 million infrastructure-as-a-service contract originally awarded in February 2013. The company will help reconfigure an IaaS […] More

The Defense Information Systems Agency has awarded Equilateral Technologies a potential three-year, $12 million contract to provide software licenses for the U.S. Army’s Program Manager Warfighter Information Networks Tactical program. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price contract covers licenses for ETI’s Spectrum Management Engine software and contains a base term and two option years, the Defense Department said Monday. […] More

The U.S. Air Force has issued a broad agency announcement for a $9.7 million funding opportunity in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Super Hard and Deeply Buried Facility Identification and Characterization program. The BAA posted Tuesday on FedBizOpps stated that the AFRL Information Directorate seeks technologies and techniques for the functional assessment, location and […] More

Raytheon has turned over a command, control, communications and surveillance system to Jordanian armed forces under a $79 million contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The company will also design and test radars, electro-optical infrared cameras, communications, and command and control software as part of the C3S system, Raytheon said Wednesday. “This work is vital […] More

CACI International has received two task orders worth $29.8 million combined to provide investigation support and legal assistance services for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The five-year contracts cover work for SEC’s Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations, Division of Enforcement and Office of the Investor Advocate, the company said Thursday. CACI said the task orders fall […] More

Microsoft has developed a cloud security tool intended to help security providers safeguard data stored in the cloud. The Verifiable Confidential Cloud Computing technology works to protect data while an authorized user gains access to the storage system for calculations, Microsoft said May 18. “The cloud provider cannot see the data or the code that the […] More