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Northrop Grumman has received a $59.1M contract to perform engineering, manufacturing and development work on next-generation navigation systems for the U.S. Air Force. The company will aim to complete the EMD phase of the Embedded Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System-Modernization program by Sept. 30 of next year, the Defense Department said Thursday. The Air Force is obligating […] More
Symantec has helped FBI crack down on cyber threat actors associated with an advertising fraud scheme, dubbed 3ve, which compromises consumer devices to drive fake internet traffic to advertisements. The bureau-led Operation Eversion resulted in the seizure of systems associated with the 3ve ad-fraudulent botnet, arrest of three people and five more indictments, the company […] More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has tapped ForeScout Technologies to take part in a research project that seeks to protect internet of things-“based devices and critical infrastructure from cyber threats. ForeScout said Wednesday it will work with NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence on the IoT security project to implement best practices and […] More
The Office of Personnel Management will launch a competitive solicitation for the recompete of a contract to provide identity theft protection and credit monitoring services to former and current federal employees, Nextgov reported Tuesday. ID Experts provides the services to more than 20M people affected by government data breaches in 2015 under a contract that […] More
Lockheed Martin has provided $1.5M to the University of Central Florida to support the creation of a cyber laboratory in an effort to foster interest in entering the cybersecurity workforce. The 970-foot Lockheed Martin Cyber Innovation Lab will be situated within UCF’s Engineering I building and will host classroom work as well as cyber defense […] More
Amazon Web Services and Eastern Foundry will host a hackathon from Dec. 15 to 16 to help the U.S. Small Business Administration address challenges in disaster response for small businesses, FedScoop reported Wednesday. The two companies aim to provide SBA with the technologies and methods that could speed up a small business’ access to federal […] More
Arlington, Va.-based talent management platforms provider PDRI will conceptualize and manage a cybersecurity workforce assessment initiative for the Department of Homeland Security under a multimillion-dollar award. The company said Tuesday it will work with subcontractor partners IBM‘s talent management solutions business, Booz Allen Hamilton and Human Resources Research Organization on the contract. PDRI will provide DHS with proficiency assessments to […] More
Oracle has obtained security accreditation for five Enterprise Session Board Controllers designed to secure communications between government networks. The company said Monday the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 certification seeks to validate the capability of its E-SBCs to shield internet protocol networks from cybersecurity threats. “We are proud to have met this high standard so we can continue to […] More
Ronald Nielson, chief technology officer at Parsons’ cyber and intelligence division, has said the incorporation of commercial cybersecurity platforms into federal networks has helped promote industry innovation and allowed the Defense Department to counter threat actors. “Our nation’s cybersecurity prowess is best measured as an integration of people, processes and technologies,†Nielson said in his […] More
The Energy Department‘s Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee has launched a competitive process for interested vendors to apply for licensing rights to commercialize a patented malware detection tool, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. ORNL seeks an industry partner to market the Heartbeat technology designed to trace malicious codes through a device’s energy usage. “Malware tries to hide […] More
The U.S. Army plans to seek a new contractor that could support operations, maintenance and/or product upgrades for the Army Equipping Enterprise System. The service plans to award a potential five-year, firm-fixed price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for AE2S support services, according to a FedBizOpps notice posted Friday. The project comes after a 2015 system assessment showed the […] More
Multinational tech firm Cisco Systems is partnering with North Carolina to launch the CyberVetsUSA program to connect the state government with the industry to train veterans for jobs in the cybersecurity field. The office of the governor said Wednesday the company will work with the state’s departments of military and veterans affairs, information technology and commerce […] More
