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The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun its search for potential contractors that can deliver an application designed to provide veterans and their families outdoor and indoor navigation support at VA’s medical facilities. VA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted May 10 the MyVA Way app seeks to provide 24/7 navigational support to users, reduce […] More
AT&T will deliver IBM‘s mobile device management platform to the Interior Department to help DOI protect and manage 27,000 mobile devices. AT&T, headquartered in Dallas, Texas, said Tuesday it will provide IBM’s Maas360 mobile device management platform to DOI as an authorized reseller. Mike Leff, vice president of AT&T’s global public sector business for civilian agencies, said the […] More
VMware and Oracle have agreed to streamline management and ensure security of Oracle’s portfolio of mobile business applications. Enterprise organizations with business apps built on the Oracle Mobile Cloud Service offering can leverage VMware’s AirWatch and Workspace ONE mobility management platforms under the partnership, Oracle said Thursday. VMware AirWatch works to help users manage and protect […] More
Cog Systems has applied for National Information Assurance Partnership certification to offer a mobile security platform designed with bare-metal virtualization technology to U.S. government agencies. The company said Monday its D4 Secure Platform is listed as eligible for use on a mobile device under the National Security Administration‘s Commercial Solutions for Classified program. Carl Nerup, chief marketing officer at Cog Systems, said the D4-based device is built to […] More
MobileIron has integrated with the Defense Department‘s Purebred derived credentials in a push to eliminate the need for common access cards to authenticate mobile identity. The company said Wednesday its derived credentials technology works to help government agencies authorize employees’ use of mobile devices to access resources without using additional hardware such as smart card readers. Sean Frazier, chief technical evangelist of MobileIron, […] More
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has certified Hypori‘s virtual mobile device offering as compliant with Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 level 1. Hypori said Monday federal civilian agencies, intelligence communities and military branches can now utilize the company’s virtual mobile device to help secure applications and data that might be vulnerable on a physical mobile device. The device is […] More
Hypori has integrated Bluetooth access control functionality with its virtual mobile infrastructure platform designed to help government agencies safeguard applications and data in mobile devices from cyber threats. The company added the functionality as part of the Small Business Innovation Research Phase II contract it secured from the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate in […] More
A Lookout-built mobile endpoint security platform has obtained a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program designation that reflects the product’s capacity to meet technical cloud adoption requirements in the government. Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security has been listed on the FedRAMP marketplace for federal agencies and government contractors as the first mobile security system to receive the “FedRAMP Ready” status, […] More
The Department of Veterans Affairs has begun to explore potential industry sources of a managed system to facilitate management of authorized mobile phones and tablets across the VA enterprise. VA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday it looks to migrate approximately 38,000 devices from its current cloud hosting environment and mobile device management software to another private cloud hosted and […] More
Lockheed Martin and Collinear Networks have partnered to commercialize a global wireless transmission technology designed for telecommunications network operators. Lockheed said Thursday its space systems business has worked with Collinear since June 2014 under a licensing and development agreement to market a Lockheed-developed hybrid point-to-point wireless transmission platform. The agreement gives Collinear exclusive marketing and non-governmental sales rights to the product. Rick […] More
The Defense Information Systems Agency and Boeing have developed a mobile device designed to help military commanders transmit and receive top-secret messages, Defense One reported Nov. 1. Patrick Tucker writes the Boeing Black mobile phone works with virtual private networks and mobile device management platforms and has a dual-SIM functionality that allows users to use […] More
The Defense Information Systems Agency has released a Security Technical Implementation Guide for the latest version of VMware’s enterprise mobility management platform. DISA’s STIG for VMware AirWatch 9.X seeks to provide cybersecurity policies and guide agencies on how to install the platform for use on Defense Department-run networks, the company said Thursday. Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, said […] More
