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  • USSOCOM Seeks Info on Biometric Data Collection, Storage Capabilities
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    USSOCOM Seeks Info on Biometric Data Collection, Storage Capabilities

    The U.S. Special Operations Command has issued a request for information on potential sources of biometrics devices and related capabilities that work to collect and store fingerprints, irises, voice and facial photographs. USSOCOM said in a FedBizOpps notice published May 26 it is interested in capabilities that have the potential to transmit information to a national […] More

  • CTC Lands Spot on $249M Army Research Lab ISR R&D Support Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments
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    CTC Lands Spot on $249M Army Research Lab ISR R&D Support Contract; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. has won a spot on a potential five-year, $248.6 million contract to provide the U.S. Army Research Laboratory with research and development support services related to intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance technology platforms. The cost-plus-fixed-fee, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers design, analysis and demonstration of ISR technologies and concepts designed to help identify and locate terrorist […] More

  • Carl De Groote: Cisco Helps DoD Migrate Joint Regional Security Stacks to Cloud
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    Carl De Groote: Cisco Helps DoD Migrate Joint Regional Security Stacks to Cloud

    Carl De Groote, senior director for the Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems, has said the company collaborates with DoD to facilitate the migration of Joint Regional Security Stacks to the cloud, Defense Systems reported Thursday. JRSS is a set of tools designed to detect breaches, provide firewall functions and perform virtual routing and forwarding, enterprise […] More

  • Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Microservices, Engineering Help Drive Agencies’ Hybrid Cloud Adoption Strategies
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    Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Microservices, Engineering Help Drive Agencies’ Hybrid Cloud Adoption Strategies

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said engineering and microservices are some of the factors that have driven most government agencies’ strategies as they transition from legacy information technology systems to hybrid cloud platforms, Federal News Radio reported Thursday. “The definition of cloud has really, really changed, and it’s really about your engineering […] More

  • In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership
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    In-Q-Tel, Evident.io Forge Cloud-Based Security Platform Devt Partnership

    In-Q-Tel has partnered with Evident.io to help the Pleasanton, California-based technology company further develop a compliance automation and security platform designed to help U.S. intelligence agencies secure their data infrastructure in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments. The company’s Evident Security Platform is an agent-less system that is built on AWS’ application programming interfaces and works to automate security […] More

  • Report: DHS Scraps $1.5B Agile Devt Support Contract Vehicle
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    Report: DHS Scraps $1.5B Agile Devt Support Contract Vehicle

    The Department of Homeland Security has called off a potential $1.5 billion contract vehicle that was designed to help DHS components procure agile design and development services from small businesses, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. The decision to cancel the Flexible Agile Support for the Homeland contract vehicle came following a series of protests filed with […] More

  • MarkLogic, NTT Data Seek to Facilitate Database, IT Services Delivery Via Expanded Partnership
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    MarkLogic, NTT Data Seek to Facilitate Database, IT Services Delivery Via Expanded Partnership

    MarkLogic and NTT Data have agreed to expand their business partnership to accelerate the delivery of database platforms and data utilization support services to customers in Japan, North America, Europe and South America. The companies will create “go-to-market strategies” through the expanded alliance in order to facilitate customer development efforts across the three continents and […] More

  • SAP NS2, CounterTack Form Enterprise Security Partnership; Mark Testoni Comments
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    SAP NS2, CounterTack Form Enterprise Security Partnership; Mark Testoni Comments

    SAP National Security Services and CounterTack have forged a strategic partnership to facilitate the delivery of an enterprise security tool to government and commercial clients. CounterTack said Wednesday it will integrate its Endpoint Threat Platform with the SAP HANA in-memory database management system in an effort to accelerate data processing operations and provide security analysts with predictive […] More

  • NTT Data to Release Drone Operation Control, Airspace Mgmt Software Suite
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    NTT Data to Release Drone Operation Control, Airspace Mgmt Software Suite

    NTT Data plans to launch in October a set of software tools designed help users remotely operate and facilitate airspace management for multiple unmanned aircraft systems. NTT Data’s airpalette UTM software package has the Flight Operation System designed to control drone operations and UAS Traffic Management core feature that works to help airspace managers carry out drone traffic […] More

  • MDA Demos Boeing-Built Ground Midcourse Defense System Against ICBM Target
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    MDA Demos Boeing-Built Ground Midcourse Defense System Against ICBM Target

    The Missile Defense Agency performed Tuesday a live-fire test of the Boeing-built Ground-Based Midcourse Defense system element of the U.S. ballistic missile defense platform. During the test, the GMD system helped guide a ground-based interceptor that launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to zero in on an intercontinental ballistic missile target that lifted off from […] More

  • Sikorsky Wraps Up Combat Rescue Helicopter Critical Design Review
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    Sikorsky Wraps Up Combat Rescue Helicopter Critical Design Review

    Lockheed Martin‘s Sikorsky subsidiary has completed a critical design review for the Combat Rescue Helicopter program that aims to replace the U.S. Air Force‘s HH-60G Pave Hawk aircraft. The CDR’s conclusion will move the HH-60W helicopter toward the assembly, evaluation and testing phase, Lockheed said Tuesday. A joint team of experts from Sikorsky and the Air Force’s helicopter program developed and evaluated […] More

  • Unisys’ PV Puvvada: Agencies Can Advance IT Modernization Through ‘Agile’ Acquisition Methods
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    Unisys’ PV Puvvada: Agencies Can Advance IT Modernization Through ‘Agile’ Acquisition Methods

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys’ federal systems business, has said federal agencies should establish agile acquisition approaches and boost commitment to IT workforce training and acquisition initiatives as they seek to update their information technology systems and make changes to the acquisition process. Puvvada wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Thursday that agencies should should facilitate […] More