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Joe Jordan: FedBid Marketplace Now Includes Contract Mgmt Tools

FedBid has updated its business-to-government online marketplace to include new tools designed to help agencies create and manage indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity or blanket purchase agreement contracts. â€œBPAs and IDIQs are often used by government buyers to help leverage savings and streamline the process for purchasing frequently-used goods and services that are needed across their organizations,” Joe Jordan, […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 27, 2015, 12:15 pm
in Featured, General, Mobility, News

Microsoft’s Susie Adams: Data Governance Critical for Federal BYOD Programs

Susie Adams, chief technology officer of Microsoft‘s federal government business, has recommended that agencies implement user-focused security policies to manage personal devices in the workplace, GCN reported Friday. â€œItâ€™s about governance first,â€ Adams told GCN in an interview. â€œMaintaining control over employee access to data regardless of the device becomes probably the most important thing […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 26, 2015, 12:07 pm
in C4ISR News, Featured, General, News

Exelis, UrsaNav, DHS, Coast Guard to Test Potential GPS Backup; Ed Sayadian Comments

Exelis has partnered with UrsaNav, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security to demonstrate a potential alternative to USCG’s decommissioned Loran-C radio navigation system. Exelis, UrsaNav, USCG and DHS signed a cooperative agreement to test the eLoran low-frequency technology as a backup for GPS infrastructure being used by the public and private […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 22, 2015, 9:18 am
in Executive Spotlight, Featured, General, News

Biff Lyons, Parsons SVP, on Converged Security Trends to Watch and Cyber’s Year Ahead

Biff Lyons oversees the national security division of Parsons Corp.’s government services segment in his senior vice president role at the Pasadena, Calif.-headquartered engineering contractor. Lyons joined Parsons in 2011 upon that company’s acquisition of SPARTA, where he held a 13-year careerÂ in roles such as VP andÂ operations manager of advanced systems technology operation, as well […] More

by Ross Wilkers May 20, 2015, 12:54 pm
in General

IBM to Deliver Cloud Service for New Zealand Health Ministry; Andrew Buchanan, Graeme Osborne Comment

The New Zealand Ministry of Health has signed a five-year deal to implement IBMâ€™s cloud platform to manage a network of health information technology systems. IBM said Tuesday the countryâ€™s Ministry of Health will use IBM Cloud Managed Infrastructure Services for New Zealand Government program to run the National Health Payment System and the National […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh May 14, 2015, 7:28 am
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Booz Allen Unveils ‘Build & Field’ Initiative for Internet of Things; Susan Penfield Comments

Booz Allen HamiltonÂ has launched a program to help the company create and deploy Internet of Things technologies in the areas ofÂ security, analytics and mobile devices under theÂ mantraÂ of “build and field.” The companyÂ said TuesdayÂ it will work to deliverÂ end-to-end services to address cyber risk and other challenges with the emergence of IoT platforms. “The proliferation of IoT […] More

by Anna Forrester May 13, 2015, 9:57 am
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Lockheed Completes SBIRS Increment 2 Ground Station Integration; Vinny Sica Comments

Lockheed MartinÂ has completed development and integration work on theÂ Space-Based Infrared System‘s Increment 2 ground station and will move forward to certification tests for the U.S. Air ForceÂ space program. The company said MondayÂ Increment 2 will command the combined infrared surveillance operations of theÂ Defense Support Program, SBIRS geosynchronous orbit satellites and highly elliptical orbit payloads. “The transition […] More

by Anna Forrester May 12, 2015, 4:21 am
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GrammaTech Lands DARPA Contract for Denial-of-Service Threat Detection Tool; Tim Teitelbaum Comments

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded a contract to GrammaTech to research and develop an analysis tool for use in detecting denial-of-service threats in software under the Space/Time Analysis for Cybersecurity platform. The contract calls for the creation ofÂ a technology that would detect two types of DoS vulnerabilities that allow network attackers to […] More

by Elizabeth Leigh May 8, 2015, 12:36 pm
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Ed Sayadian: Exelis to Back 4 FAA UAS Research, Test Sites

ExelisÂ has signed an agreement with four Federal Aviation Administration-designated test facilities to study the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into U.S. civilian airspace. The sitesÂ will use Exelisâ€™ Symphony RangeVue sense-and-avoid tool for operators and test personnel to access real-time and historical aircraft surveillance data via a Web platform, Exelis said Tuesday. Symphony RangeVueÂ is designed to […] More

by Jay Clemens May 5, 2015, 11:05 am
in Cybersecurity News, Featured, General, News

AT&T’s Chris Smith: Cyber Info Sharing, IT Reform Bills See Progress

Chris Smith, vice president of technology at AT&T‘s government solutions unit and a former chief information officerÂ fromÂ the Agriculture Department, has described his outlook on current developments in cyber-related legislation in a Federal News RadioÂ interview. In that conversationÂ posted Monday onÂ Federal News Radio that he sees progress inÂ movement towardÂ legislation of cyber information sharing and the overhaul of […] More

by Anna Forrester May 5, 2015, 8:53 am
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Stephanie Hill: Lockheed, FAA Collaborate to Implement NextGen ATC Automation System

Lockheed Martin has helped the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration build and implement a computer system to manageÂ air traffic flow in national airspace. The En Route Automation Modernization infrastructure is designed to replace a legacy air traffic control platform that FAA has used to monitor planes flying at a high altitude, Lockheed said Thursday. Stephanie Hill, […] More

by Mary-Louise Hoffman May 1, 2015, 12:46 pm
in Cybersecurity News, Featured, General, News

General Dynamics Previews Cyber Sensor Threat ID Tech; Nadia Short Comments

General Dynamics hasÂ developedÂ a new National Security Agency-approved sensor software product forÂ security operators to detect and prevent network intrusions with the company’s TACLANE-1G encryptor. The company said Thursday the TACLANE Trusted Sensor SoftwareÂ features deep packet inspection components for network filtering functions and to issue alerts for users to monitor any component of a system. TACLANE Trusted […] More

by Ross Wilkers May 1, 2015, 12:20 pm