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Tony Bogovic, vice president of advanced consulting and engineering at Perspecta Labs, has said government agencies and companies should implement strategies to protect and defend network infrastructure against distributed denial-of-service attacks and other cyber threats. Bogovic wrote in an article published Tuesday on Fifth Domain that one of the strategies agencies could adopt is to disperse or decentralize high-value information assets and servers that are being targeted by threat actors.

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Dave McClure, principal director and CIO advisory lead at Accenture Federal Services, has said the availability of more data, the increasing computing capacity and the software environment are some of the factors driving the pace of technology modernization in the government, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. “And you combine all three of these together, and it creates an accelerated path for modernization that we just simply have never had before in government,” McClure said at a WBJ-hosted forum.

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Dell EMC has revamped its federal channel partner program by reducing the number of distributors to three companies in an effort to address complexity when offering technology platforms and services to federal market clients, CRN reported Monday. Carahsoft, Arrow and Ingram Micro are the three distributors included in the new Dell EMC Federal Partner program, which includes approximately 3K platform providers.

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Stan Lowe, global chief information security officer at Zscaler, has said federal agencies should shift their focus to operational security as they modernize their information technology infrastructure and meet evolving missions. Lowe wrote in a GCN article published Friday how the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program and the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation initiative provide agencies an opportunity to address cyber threats and implement operational security.
 

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ManTech International plans to build on the revenue growth and expand its portfolio with the addition of space-related contracts, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. "Space is definitely one of our top strategic thrusts moving forward for expansion," said Damian DiPippa, senior vice president and general manager of ManTech's mission, cyber and intelligence solutions business unit.

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Raytheon will take part in the U.S. Army’s missile defense radar “sense-off” that is expected to occur in the spring of 2019 at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Defense News reported Thursday. The sense-off seeks to evaluate radar designs that could be incorporated into the Integrated Air and Missile Defense system and is part of the Army’s effort to adjust the approach for its Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor program meant to replace the Patriot air-and-missile defense radar.

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