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  • Thales Debuts At-Sea Mobile Multimedia Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales Debuts At-Sea Mobile Multimedia Service

    Thales has launched a shipboard on-the-move multimedia system designed to support secure information distribution for deployed naval personnel with continuous mobility and connectivity services. The COMTICS communication device works to connect with all types of military radios, utilizes Thales’ cybersecurity technology and employs a redundant all-IP architecture to maintain service availability, the company said Wednesday. Christophe […] More

  • Progeny to Help DHS Create Mobile App Development Security Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Progeny to Help DHS Create Mobile App Development Security Framework

    Progeny Systems has received a $749,928 grant from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to craft a framework to secure mobile application development and deployment processes. DHS said Wednesday Progeny will collaborate with Microsoft‘s Xamarin subsidiary to produce the framework for enterprise organizations to safeguard iOS, Windows and Android mobile applications. “This project will help […] More

  • DXC’s Earl Matthews: Organizations Should Implement User-Focused Mobile Strategy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DXC’s Earl Matthews: Organizations Should Implement User-Focused Mobile Strategy

    Earl Matthews, vice president of DXC Technology‘s enterprise security solutions group, has said organizations should adopt a modern mobile strategy that focuses more on end users than the technology itself. Such a user-centered strategy “requires a different approach to enabling the user with the right information sources, devices, security, connectivity and support,” Matthews wrote in an article published […] More

  • Kryptowire-Qualcomm Team Gets DHS Contract to Demo Mobile Security Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kryptowire-Qualcomm Team Gets DHS Contract to Demo Mobile Security Framework

    Kryptowire and Qualcomm‘s cybersecurity business have received a $1.8 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to demonstrate a framework that seeks to validate and protect third-party mobile applications and services. The team will test Qualcomm’s Mission-Critical-Grade Security Layer framework that employs the Snapdragon Mobile Security Platform with Kryptowire’s military-grade application security testing platform, Kryptowire said Thursday. […] More

  • Red Hat Opens Innovation Hub for APAC Region - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Opens Innovation Hub for APAC Region

    Red Hat has opened an innovation hub in Singapore as part of efforts to help customers in the Asia-Pacific region to develop or update information technology applications with open source and DevOps methods. The company said Monday it established the Open Innovation Labs to offer clients a range of support services intended to address IT and business. Dirk-Peter […] More

  • DHS Selects Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute to Study Cyber Threats in Mobile Devices - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Selects Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute to Study Cyber Threats in Mobile Devices

    The Critical Infrastructure Resilience Institute has received a $640,000 contract from the Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate to conduct research work on prepositioned cyber threats in mobile devices. CIRI, a DHS S&T Center of Excellence, will establish a framework for mobile device operating systems that can help automatically determine threats that sprout from personal […] More

  • Lockheed to Integrate Blue Cedar Security Platform With Comms Mobile App - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Integrate Blue Cedar Security Platform With Comms Mobile App

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Blue Cedar to incorporate the latter’s mobile security tool into its Universal Communications Platform mobile application in an effort to facilitate secure communications among app users, military personnel and first responders. The partnership seeks to enable users to download to their smartphones, table computers and other mobile devices the […] More

  • Space Nation, NASA to Collaborate on App-Based Astronaut Training Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Nation, NASA to Collaborate on App-Based Astronaut Training Program

    Space Nation and NASA have entered into a Space Act Agreement to administer a training program that will allow participants to experience space training through a smartphone application. The Astronaut Experience Program will feature an educational documentary and make use of multiple media platforms such as active experience training and app games in which users can compete for a chance […] More

  • Red Hat-Kryptowire Team to Support DHS' Mobile App Security Project; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat-Kryptowire Team to Support DHS’ Mobile App Security Project; Paul Smith Comments

    A Red Hat–Kryptowire team has received a contract from the Department of Homeland Security to develop methods to automate compliance of mobile applications with government security and privacy standards. Both companies aim to create a framework for security and privacy compliance automation in the mobile app life cycle as part of the Mobile Application Security project managed by […] More

  • DHS Awards 5 Govt Mobile App Security Contracts - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Awards 5 Govt Mobile App Security Contracts

    The Department of Homeland Security‘ science and technology directorate has awarded $8.6 million in contracts to five research and development projects that aim to help increase the security of mobile applications for the federal government. Recipients of the grants are Apcerto, Lookout, United Technologies Corp.‘s research center, Qualcomm and a Red Hat–Kryptowire team, DHS said Wednesday. The projects […] More

  • Metronome-MobileIron Team Secures DHS SBIR Grant to Develop Mobile Security Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Metronome-MobileIron Team Secures DHS SBIR Grant to Develop Mobile Security Tech

    A MobileIron–Metronome Software team has received a $749,930 grant from the Department of Homeland Security‘s Science and Technology Directorate to develop technology for first responders to secure mobile device-based sensor systems. Both companies will work to create a security overlay designed to comply with security and data provenance requirements under the Next Generation First Responder framework, MobileIron said […] More

  • iGov Mobile Comms System Completes Production Acceptance Test & Evaluation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    iGov Mobile Comms System Completes Production Acceptance Test & Evaluation

    Reston, Virginia-based information technology company iGov has wrapped up production acceptance test and evaluation on its mobile communications system that is designed to support the U.S. Air Force‘s tactical air control party. The company said Thursday the Tactical Air Control Party-Mobile Communications System was tested for more than 200 system requirements such as line-of-sight operations and range for […] More