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Latest Federal & Government Contracting Companies' News Coverage
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SRI International has received a potential four-year, $7.3 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop software under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to develop systems designed to detect and respond to cyber attacks on the power grid. The company will perform software development work through the Threat Intelligence for Grid […] More
Matthew Schneider, senior director for the U.S. public sector at VMware, has said government agencies and companies should adopt the software-defined networking model in order to meet the requirements of applications and manage big data workloads amid the use of cloud platforms. Schneider wrote that the implementation of an SDN model should be combined with […] More
Global Technology Resources Inc. and Absio have agreed to combine their information technology consulting expertise and cybersecurity experience as the two companies aim to help clients protect and manage digital information. Absio also added GTRI to its partner program in a push to grow the former company’s presence in the government and enterprise markets, GTRI said Wednesday. GTRI seeks to […] More
Metova has been awarded a $3.8 million contract to provide a cyber range technology to the Air National Guard to aid in the service’s virtual training program. The Air National Guard will use the CyberCENTS platform to conduct tier 1, 2 and 3 exercises and training for its cyber mission forces, Metova said Tuesday. “We are honored to […] More
Raytheon has received certification from the National Security Agency for its Ethernet encryption system that works to safeguard Top Secret-level data and sensitive compartmented information in networked communication platforms. The NSA Type 1 certification seeks to authorize Raytheon to sell its KG-350 Layer 2 Ethernet encryption tool to government, military and commercial clients, the company said […] More
A report by Intel Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies has found that 71 percent of information technology professionals believe the shortage of cybersecurity professionals make business organizations more vulnerable to cyber attacks. Intel Security said Wednesday it commissioned technology market research firm Vanson Bourne in May to conduct online interviews with 775 […] More
Cohesity has achieved the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s Federal Information Processing Standards 140-2 certification for the company’s encryption module. The company said Tuesday the certification allows government agencies to use Cohesity’s hyperconverged secondary storage offering to handle sensitive information. Cohesity added security tests of the encryption module took place part of Cohesity’s storage platform and on the same hardware that the […] More
Charles River Analytics has received a two-year, $500,000 follow-on contract to develop a cyber defense toolkit for the U.S. Air Force to assess software services for the military branch’s cybersecurity programs. The company said Monday it will base the Managing Evaluation and Testing for Red Team Investigations of Cyber Security tool on the firm’s AgentWorks graphical application that works to help users […] More
Rofori Corp. has joined a FireEye-led coalition in an effort to help organizations detect, correlate and respond to cyber threats. Rofori will integrate its DEFCON CYBER platform with FireEye’s Global Threat Management Platform and iSIGHT Intelligence tool under the cybersecurity coalition, Rofori said Monday. Chuck O’Dell, CEO of Rofori, said the combination of the company’s DEFCON CYBER with […] More
Duffy Consulting Services has launched a platform designed to help Defense Department contractors and subcontractors comply with guidance on how to protect sensitive federal data in nonfederal systems. DCS’ enterprise management tool works to facilitate the adoption of the Protection of Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations guidance by DoD contractors in compliance […] More
Lockheed Martin has partnered with Hamad bin Khalifa University in Qatar and the University of Patras in Greece to help the Qatari government develop a framework to address cybersecurity challenges, BQ Magazine reported Sunday. The magazine reports the partnership was unveiled during the 1st International Cyber Security Technologies Roundtable event where professionals from the academic and commercial sectors discussed cybersecurity […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded PFP Cybersecurity a contract to study cybersecurity technologies designed to provide threat intelligence and detection to secure Internet of Things and embedded systems. PFP said Friday the new technology will work to protect IoT-connected devices such as power grids, smart devices and cars against cyber attacks. The company will work under DARPA’s Leveraging the Analog Domain […] More
