Processing....
Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
Booz Allen has compiled a list of 10 cyber trends for 2015 intended to guide financial services on how to position their organizations against evolving cybersecurity threats. “In the months and years ahead, what it means to detect and protect in cyber will be redefined,†Sedar LaBarre, a principal with Booz Allen, said Wednesday. “We are […] More
Northrop Grumman will soon roll out its latest laser technology under its Viper portfolio that has been specifically developed for directed infrared countermeasure systems. The company said Wednesday that its laser systems group spent five years to update to Viper 2.1 and is now getting ready for full-scale production from its Apopka and Rolling Meadows […] More
CGI has been selected to update Los Angeles City’s supply and financial management systems under a four-year, $19.6 million contract. The legacy systems will be replaced with the latest version of CGI Advantage, the company said Thursday. CGI Advantage is an enterprise resource planning suite that works to help local governments streamline processes in procurement […] More
BAE Systems will develop a blueprint for a future-proof networked communications system under a $3.2 million contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Work on the open system architecture is part of the agency’s Communications in Contested Environments initiative, which seeks to come up with flexible, rapidly deployable equipment that can adapt to changing […] More
Kevin Winter, chief information officer at Booz Allen Hamilton, said chief information security officers should have deep technical knowledge, good communication skills and an understanding of the business mission to be effective security leaders of their group, Fierce CIO reported Thursday. Winter spoke to reporter David Weldon in an interview and said CISOs should adequately articulate to […] More
Federal technology leaders who want to use open source code for government applications need a secure, standard platform with which to establish it, David Egts of Red Hat wrote in a GCN guest post published Thursday. Egts, chief technologist at Red Hat’s public sector organization, said open software when deployed with continuous monitoring measures and systems management tools in […] More
A joint venture of Thales Group and Raytheon moved closer to deploying a command and control system they have developed for NATO after completing a four-nation demonstration that evaluated the program’s network operations. The tests looked at the NATO Air Command and Control System’s ability to connect to national pilot sites in Belgium, France, Germany and Italy, and integrate […] More
David K. Shepherd, a senior consultant at firm LMI, has offered strategies that he believes information technology leaders can adopt to minimize damage in event of a cyber attack. Shepherd indicated in an Oct. 30 guest post on the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s blog that proper risk mitigation procedures should be in place, given the […] More
Northrop Grumman has added to its SCS family of communications products with the launch of a new lightweight version that the contractor indicated is 30 times smaller than previous models. The SCS-400 system, which debuted at a military information systems event in Canberra this week, allows secure voice communications for up to 150 users per unit using […] More
Hughes Network Systems has signed up to provide data sharing services for the All Hazards Consortium to help disseminate real-time information to disaster managers, emergency response leaders and first responders in cooperation. Hughes’ raw data will be fed into AHC’s Multi-State Fleet Response Working Group, which will analyze and translate the information into an online map that […] More
FireEye CEO David DeWalt has called on information security leaders to embrace threat intelligence as a new, alternative basis for their defense platforms and security strategies, GovInfo Security reported Wednesday. “It’s a tough conversation, telling them they’ve spent a lot of money on defense-in-depth that isn’t working,†DeWalt told reporter Tom Field in an interview. […] More
The global market for biometrics is set for double-digit growth in the next five years, pushed by new discoveries in technology and a changing threat landscape, new analysis from Transparency Market Research revealed. The market report predicts a $23 billion industry by 2019, with a 20.8 percent compound annual growth rate throughout the forecast period […] More
