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Hear about the latest product and service offerings from the government contracting industry’s leading providers. The Government Technology News section highlights developments in aerospace, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, defense, C4ISR, cloud, hypersonics, and space.
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Zscaler’s Stephen Kovac on Interim TIC 3.0 Telework Guidance’s Telemetry Data Requirement
The Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued interim Trusted Internet Connections 3.0 telework guidance and Stephen Kovac, vice president of global government at Zscaler, said the document requires cloud service providers to submit telemetry data to the National Cybersecurity Protection System’s EINSTEIN team, FedScoop reported Thursday.
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Charles River Analytics Unveils Health Diagnostic App Dev’t Project
Charles River Analytics, Tozny, Assured Information Security and the University of Washington have collaborated to develop a tool that will work to trace signals that could indicate signs of injury and illnesses.
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GE Research Develops ‘VERDICT’ Cyber Tool Under DARPA Program
General Electric’s technological development arm is working on a new cybersecurity tool under the Defense Advanced Research Agency’s Cyber Assured Systems Engineering program, Nextgov reported Wednesday. A team at GE Research is developing the Verification Evidence and Resilient Design in Anticipation of Cybersecurity Threats platform designed to assess cyber threats facing critical industrial and military systems, recommend ways to address identified vulnerabilities and predict cyber attacks.
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State Dept Clears Morocco’s FMS Request for Boeing-Built Harpoon Block II Missiles
The State Department has approved a potential $62M foreign military sale of Boeing-built air launched missile systems and associated equipment to Morocco. The possible deal includes procurement of 10 AGM-84L Harpoon Block II missiles, containers, spares, repair parts and test and support equipment.
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Microsoft Offers AccountGuard Threat Notification Service to Health Care Providers
Microsoft has made its threat notification service available for free to hospitals, clinics, medical device, pharmaceutical and life sciences companies, clinicians and other health care providers offering front-line services during the COVID-19 pandemic. AccountGuard is designed to monitor threat actors targeting personal email accounts and enterprise mailboxes and send alerts to users to help them counter cyber attacks, Tom Burt, corporate vice president for customer security and trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday.
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Cisco Announces Business Resiliency Program; Chuck Robbins Quoted
Cisco will offer $2.5B in financing through a new program to provide customers and partners access to technology platforms needed to ensure business continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Business Resiliency Program will help clients manage their cash flow during the crisis by allowing them to defer 95 percent of the cost of a new Cisco hardware, software or service until January 2021, the company said Tuesday.
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NASA Greenlights Planetary Defense Integration Phase With JHU APL
Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory has received approval to continue on with a planetary defense program under NASA.