FireEye has released a white paper that suggests cybersecurity measures for helping enterprise IT personnel identify and address zero-day threats. The report was a collaboration between executives from FireEye, Mandiant, LogRhythm and Imperva, FireEye said Wednesday. Authors recommend that businesses establish cybersecurity teams, use technology to protect data and make incident response part of the business […] More

SAS is working to help clients combat financial crime and fraud through a new facility in Glasglow that will focus on big data analytics, company executive Mikael Hagstrom said, according to a Tuesday report from CBR. Hagstrom — Europe, Middle East and Africa and Asia Pacific executive vice president — was talking about the company’s […] More

L-3 Communications is working to extend mobile communications to frontline soldiers under a $15.5 million contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Sunday. John Keller writes the U.S. Army and Marine Corps warfighters will connect to a millimeter-wave communications backbone under the DARPA Mobile Hotspots program. The company will work to […] More

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a nearly $9 million foreign military sales contract with the U.S. Air Force to help maintain South Korea’s reconnaissance aircraft system. Lockheed will sustain the Peace Krypton system’s spare and repair components, supply test tools for South Korea’s aircraft, fixed and mobile ground stations and upgrade system software, the company said […] More

Pentek has launched a new suite of data recorder products for aerospace and defense customers to perform field operations in harsh environments, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Thursday. John Keller writes the Talon RTX Rackmount data storage system is built to record up to 30 terabytes of military data at 5 gigabytes per second. The data […] More

Ciber will work with the Denver public school district to update the district’s financial, procurement and business information systems. Infor’s Financial Suite is intended to give the schools visibility into business data and help produce financial and operational reports, Ciber announced Thursday. The Financial Suite includes general ledger, grant management, procurement suite, strategic sourcing, contract […] More

A study from Booz Allen Hamilton and the Government Business Council recommends government and industry align their expectations in order to meet the requirements of defense acquisition programs. The Booz Allen-backed study polled 340 federal and defense leaders to assess their views on military procurement and potential reform in the process, Booz Allen said Wednesday. Eighty-five […] More

L-3 Communications has reorganized the company’s business segments in a move that Chairman and CEO Michael Strianese called an effort to further the company’s technology and sales push. John McNellis has been named president of the new aerospace systems segment that combines the former platform and logistics segment and the intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance systems […] More

Steven Rust, a Battelle senior research leader, has been selected to receive the nonprofit research and development organization’s  annual Inventor of the Year Award. Rust was chosen for the honor for leading a team that developed a health care analytics tool for big data sets in order to ensure safety of medicines, the company announced Tuesday. […] More

Dell wants healthcare and life sciences technology startups to participate in the company’s pitch contest for a chance to present business concepts to a panel of industry leaders. The mHealth pitch challenge is meant for companies that aim to develop software or hardware platforms for healthcare organizations, Dell says. Entrepreneurs will have an opportunity to […] More

HBGary, a ManTech International company, has updated a cyber defense product that works to help enterprises identify and validate computer security incidents caused by custom-coded malware. Active Defense uses a HBGary malware detection system designed to perform host-based digital forensics and give incident responders visibility into all Windows endpoints, the subsidiary said Monday. Ken Silva, […] More

Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global services business unit will work to consolidate the U.S. Navy’s C2ISR systems (command, control intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), SEAPOWER Magazine reported Friday. Richard Burgess writes Lockheed plans to fund an internal research and development program to build a centralized display of operational and tactical data for commanders of naval […] More