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  • ThreatConnect, CrowdStrike Form Threat Intell Alliance for Clients; Adam Meyers Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ThreatConnect, CrowdStrike Form Threat Intell Alliance for Clients; Adam Meyers Comments

    CrowdStrike has partnered with ThreatConnect to deliver open-source threat intelligence offering to ThreatConnect’s users in an effort to help clients gain insights into their security data. ThreatConnect customers will have access to CrowdStrike’s Falcon Intelligence product in order to collect, analyze and act on threat intelligence sources via the ThreatConnect platform, ThreatConnect said Tuesday. Adam […] More

  • Dell Reveals Emerging Data Security Threats; Patrick Sweeney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dell Reveals Emerging Data Security Threats; Patrick Sweeney Comments

    Dell Inc. has released a new report that indicates a growth in the point-of-sale malware landscape and increasing attacks on payment card systems. Dell said Monday it examined various data sources to identify the threats and developed the report by gathering research from Dell SonicWALL’s global response intelligence defense network and telemetry data. The report […] More

  • Northrop Opens New UK Cyber Facility in UK; Andrew Tyler Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Opens New UK Cyber Facility in UK; Andrew Tyler Comments

    Northrop Grumman has opened a fresh cyber facility in Gloucestershire, U.K., with the goal of helping customers in the country and other parts of Europe to combat cyber threats. The company’s nearly 100 cyber employees will collaborate at the new cyber hub to develop big data analytics, network defense, mobility, biometrics, high-speed processing and full-spectrum […] More

  • FireEye Examines Operations of APT 30 Threat Group; Dan McWhorter Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Examines Operations of APT 30 Threat Group; Dan McWhorter Comments

    FireEye said an advanced persistent threat group known as APT 30 has been targeting corporations and government entities in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal, Singapore, the Philippines and Indonesia since 2005. According to FireEye’s report, the Chinese government is the likely sponsor of APT 30, which the company says has maintained its attack tools, tactics and procedures since the […] More

  • Ciber to Administer North Central Texas Council of Governments’ ERP Systems; Michael Boustridge Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ciber to Administer North Central Texas Council of Governments’ ERP Systems; Michael Boustridge Comments

    Ciber has been tasked to administer the enterprise resource planning systems of the North Central Texas Council of Governments, a local government association formed to aid in resources coordination efforts. The company will perform user help desk and technical network support, application administration, license management, and data center and hosting services on NCTCOG’s Infor ERP application, […] More

  • BPRH, Jones Edmunds and Associates to Rehabilitate NASA Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BPRH, Jones Edmunds and Associates to Rehabilitate NASA Facilities

    BPRH Architect and Engineers and Jones Edmunds and Associates have won a nearly $20 million contract each to refurbish various NASA launch and landing facilities in the U.S. and worldwide. The contractors will provide architect-engineer services for the Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and […] More

  • Bechtel Allowed to Use Drones in Construction Projects; Mike Lewis Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel Allowed to Use Drones in Construction Projects; Mike Lewis Comments

    Bechtel has obtained Federal Aviation Administration approval to use unmanned aircraft systems on the company’s construction works in the United States. Mike Lewis, Bechtel’s manager of construction, said Monday the company partnered with Skycatch to integrate drones into Bechtel’s execution systems for various projects worldwide. “This technology helps improve safety and quality of project delivery by […] More

  • Leidos to Handle US Navy, Marine Corps Aircraft Home Basing Documentation; Laura Obloy Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Handle US Navy, Marine Corps Aircraft Home Basing Documentation; Laura Obloy Comments

    Leidos has been awarded a $50 million contract to manage documentation of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps’ aircraft home basing actions. The company’s engineering business will perform the environmental planning and mission operations support activities in compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act through 2020 under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, Leidos said Monday. Laura Obloy, senior […] More

  • NASA Awards Aerojet Rocketdyne Funds to Complete Ion Thruster System; Julie Van Kleeck Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA Awards Aerojet Rocketdyne Funds to Complete Ion Thruster System; Julie Van Kleeck Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has been selected to complete development work for NASA’s gridded ion thruster system under a nearly $18 million contract with Glenn Research Center. The company will carry out the task on the Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial system and power processing units designed to pump solar power into each of the thruster’s components, Aerojet Rocketdyne said […] More

  • Northrop to Develop, Maintain Software for US Army’s Counter-Rocket System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Develop, Maintain Software for US Army’s Counter-Rocket System

    Northrop Grumman Systems has received a $38,712,496 contract to develop and maintain software for the U.S. Army’s counter-rocket artillery mortar command and control system. The company will also provide training support services on the system for Army personnel under the sole-source contract, the Defense Department said Monday. Herndon, Virginia-based Northrop will perform the task in Carson, […] More

  • TechNavio Forecasts 2% CAGR for Military Infrastructure, Logistics Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TechNavio Forecasts 2% CAGR for Military Infrastructure, Logistics Market

    A new TechNavio report has projected the military infrastructure and logistics market in the U.S. to hit a compound annual growth rate of 2.08 percent from 2014 through 2019. The report notes a growing market trend in modern logistic systems, TechNavio said March 11. The market analyst added that the military’s focus on modernization programs would drive the […] More

  • Comtech Continues to Sustain US Army Comms System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Comtech Continues to Sustain US Army Comms System

    A Comtech Telecommunications subsidiary has been tasked to deliver additional battle command and control support systems to the U.S. Army under a $19.8 million initial funding. The Army exercised one option year of a three-year contract awarded to Comtech Mobile Datacom in April 2014 to obtain license for its Blue-Force Tracking intellectual property, Comtech said Monday. Comtech will […] More