Cybersecurity

The Federal Railroad Administration and Ensco held an event Tuesday to mark the 50th anniversary of the agency’s Transportation Technology Center in Pueblo, Colorado. Ensco assumed management responsibility for TTC earlier this month under a potential 20-year, $571 million contract from the FRA. The company said Tuesday some representatives from the government and the commercial […] More

Forward Networks’ cloud modeling software has been added to the Approved Products List of the Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program. The company said Monday its Forward Enterprise platform was cleared for managing federal assets, network security and data protection and was envisioned to help users implement cybersecurity policy, mitigate cloud network […] More

The National Institute of Standards and Technology will collaborate with Virginia-based digital marketing company Katzcy to bring together cybersecurity athletes to represent the U.S. at an international competition. Both parties sealed a five-year pact to perform cooperative work through the U.S. Cyber Games, which the woman-owned small business and NIST’s National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education […] More

The acquisition directorate under Washington Headquarters Services has issued a sources sought notice for its plan to contract out information technology hardware and software for that Department of Defense field activity in Alexandria, Virginia. The notice posted Thursday on SAM.gov centers on IT operation, management and maintenance of facility-related control systems. WHS is inviting all […] More

Raytheon Technologies‘ intelligence and space division has showcased its zero trust offering for the U.S. Army in a technology demonstration event held at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. John DeSimone, president of cybersecurity, intelligence and services at Raytheon Intelligence & Space, said in a statement published Thursday the Operational Zero Trust platform is a fully […] More

A Raytheon Technologies business has combined its zero trust offering with Red Hat’s OpenShift enterprise Kubernetes platform to help customers facilitate security deployments across information and operational technology environments. REDPro ZTX from Raytheon Intelligence and Space is a zero trust integration platform that supports vendor-agnostic applications and is designed to speed up enterprise-scale zero trust […] More

PsiQuantum will further develop the photonic approach to quantum computing under a $22.5 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory. The company said Wednesday it will work with AFRL to design, develop and produce quantum photonic chips at GlobalFoundries’ semiconductor foundry in Malta, New York. Quantum photonic chips can process and control qubits based […] More

Phil Fuster, vice president of federal sales at Proofpoint, said he believes the Department of Defense should create and maintain a risk profile on their workforce, suppliers and contractors in order to be nimble and secure from cyberattacks. He told DefenseScoop in an interview that having a continuous risk profile specific to the DOD’s staff, […] More

The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum that establishes a maturity model to guide the implementation of event logging requirements with regard to cybersecurity incidents and Amazon Web Services outlined for federal customers the AWS services listed in the M-21-31 memo that require log data capture and storage at the EL1 level. “EL1 […] More

The Actus procurement workflow automation platform of Paperless Innovations has complied with Level 2 requirements set by the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 model. The updated cybersecurity framework was released in November 2021 to assess defense contractors’ capability to handle and safeguard Federal Contract Information and Controlled Unclassified Information, the company said. Level 2 compliance […] More

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has selected eight teams for a new program that aims to develop practical tools and approaches to anticipate and mitigate emergent behaviors of modern computer systems that can pose vulnerabilities to cyber attacks. DARPA said Thursday the three-phase Hardening Development Toolchains Against Emergent Execution Engines program seeks to enhance […] More