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  • Northrop to Upgrade Ship Navigation Systems for Maersk; Jeanne Usher Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Upgrade Ship Navigation Systems for Maersk; Jeanne Usher Comments

    A Northrop Grumman business unit will perform upgrades on the radar systems and Electronic Chart Display and Information Systems on at least 80 vessels of the Maersk Line shipping company. Northrop said Monday its Sperry Marine business will provide its VisionMaster FT products, including the Navigat gyrocompass and Naviknot speed logs, as part of the upgrade. “This contract extends the ongoing business […] More

  • Survey: Cyber Criminals the Biggest Threat to Organizations; Rob Stroud Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Survey: Cyber Criminals the Biggest Threat to Organizations; Rob Stroud Comments

    Cybersecurity professionals believe that cyber criminals are the industry’s biggest threat, with phishing and malware as the most common methods of attack and financial gain as the primary motivator, SC Magazine reported Thursday. Tom Reeve writes that 636 survey respondents at this week’s RSA Conference said cyber criminals were the most active threats to their organizations in […] More

  • Phacil Lands Transcom Enterprise IT Support Task Order; Arman Afsar Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Phacil Lands Transcom Enterprise IT Support Task Order; Arman Afsar Comments

    Phacil has received a task order contract from the U.S. Transportation Command to provide on-site enterprise information technology support for Transcom’s Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command. The company said Wednesday the performance-based contract includes information assurance, content management, application development, system administration, network infrastructure engineering and other services. Phacil added that contract work covers support for SDDC activities at locations in […] More

  • RSA's Amit Yoran: Tech Security Vendors Must Go Beyond 'Legacy Mindsets' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RSA’s Amit Yoran: Tech Security Vendors Must Go Beyond ‘Legacy Mindsets’

    Amit Yoran, president of the RSA security division at EMC, has urged the technology security sector to go beyond “legacy mindsets” to address what he views as emerging challenges in the current threat environment. Yoran, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2015, told attendees of this week’s RSA Conference that technology is not the problem for industry as it works to combat cyber […] More

  • BAE Adds New Cyber Threat Intell Services in North America; Jim Anderson Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Adds New Cyber Threat Intell Services in North America; Jim Anderson Comments

    BAE Systems Plc‘s applied intelligence business has expanded its enterprise managed security services portfolio for the North American market to include new managed advanced threat detection and incident response offerings. “As cyber attacks become increasingly sophisticated, large enterprises are looking for additional safeguards to bolster defenses,” Jim Anderson, president of the Americas at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, said […] More

  • Workhorse Group to Propose Electric, Drone-Launching Vehicle for New USPS Trucks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Workhorse Group to Propose Electric, Drone-Launching Vehicle for New USPS Trucks

    The U.S. Postal Service could receive a proposal on its future delivery vehicles that offers the capability to launch drones to help in delivering packages, Federal Times reported Tuesday. Andy Medici writes that Workhorse Group proposes the use of an all-electric delivery truck with functions that enable it to launch drones, with the aim of completing the delivery route in […] More

  • Commerce Dept Enlists Tech Giants for Big Data Project; Penny Pritzker Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Commerce Dept Enlists Tech Giants for Big Data Project; Penny Pritzker Comments

    The Commerce Department will work with Amazon.com, Google, IBM, Microsoft and the Open Cloud Consortium on a big data project to figure out how to apply environmental data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for efforts to support the U.S. economy. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker announced the cooperative research and development agreements Tuesday at the American Meteorological Society forum. “As America’s data agency, we are […] More

  • FireEye Announces Initiatives, Partnerships for Cyber Ecosystem Efforts; David DeWalt Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Announces Initiatives, Partnerships for Cyber Ecosystem Efforts; David DeWalt Comments

    FireEye has launched the Fuel Cyber Security Coalition as part of the expansion of its Fuel partner program to integrate efforts to protect joint customers from cyber attacks through workflow and threat intelligence sharing. The company said Monday the coalition will facilitate sharing of information on threat actors using FireEye Community Threat Intelligence to help security and infrastructure […] More

  • Neustar Reports Increased Enterprise Preparedness for DDoS Attacks in North America - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Neustar Reports Increased Enterprise Preparedness for DDoS Attacks in North America

    A Neustar report on the incidence and impact of distributed denial-of-service attacks in North America indicates that businesses are more prepared to address DDoS attacks as their number and scale of impact also increase. The company said Monday the number of North American firms that use a hybrid of on-site and cloud-based technologies to protect against DDoS has grown by 55 percent […] More

  • Booz Allen Sees 'Active Cyber Defense' Trend Amid IoT Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen Sees ‘Active Cyber Defense’ Trend Amid IoT Tech

    Booz Allen Hamilton has indicated that companies are looking into active cyber defense capabilities and intelligence-driven technologies to counter future threats in the Internet of Things. The company said Monday that emerging trends in incident response and cybersecurity point to changes in the threat environment due to the connectedness of the cyber network. “When it comes […] More

  • SAIC to Support Toyota Information Systems End Users in North America - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAIC to Support Toyota Information Systems End Users in North America

    Science Applications International Corp. will provide support for information systems end users at Toyota Motor Corp. sales and manufacturing affiliates in North America under a five-year, $54 million contract. SAIC said Monday it will provide Toyota Motor North America with information systems services to support end user and dealer service desks, messaging and collaboration, and access administration. The contract also includes […] More

  • Red Hat JBoss EAP 6.2 Gets Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat JBoss EAP 6.2 Gets Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification; Paul Smith Comments

    Red Hat has received Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ for its JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6.2 offering, indicating its capability to meet international security standards. The company said Wednesday third-party assessor atsec information security evaluated the Red Hat product against the standards indicated in the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation. “Common Criteria accreditation is a high watermark for security […] More