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  • Leidos, SecurityMatters to Combine Industrial Control System Mgmt, Threat Monitoring Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos, SecurityMatters to Combine Industrial Control System Mgmt, Threat Monitoring Platforms

    Leidos and SecurityMatters have partnered to add passive monitoring features into a technology platform designed to help operators monitor and secure industrial control systems. SecurityMatters said Thursday it will integrate its SilentDefense continuous threat detection and response platform with Leidos’ Industrial Defender Automation Systems Manager offering. Leidos will resell the integrated product to current and future Industrial Defender ASM customers. […] More

  • QTS Completes 2 Annual SOC Audits, Receives ISO Info Security Mgmt Certification - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Completes 2 Annual SOC Audits, Receives ISO Info Security Mgmt Certification

    Data center services provider QTS has received certifications from a public accounting and auditing firm after completion of two annual Service Organization Control audits. QTS said Thursday it completed American Institute of Certified Public Accountants SOC 1 and 2 Type II reports highlighting the company’s internal controls and procedures. The reports follow AICPA’s Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements and cover QTS […] More

  • Report: US Expresses Optimism on Germany’s Tornado Fighter Jet Replacement Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: US Expresses Optimism on Germany’s Tornado Fighter Jet Replacement Program

    A U.S. military official said the country is confident that there are U.S.-manufactured fighter jets that can compete to replace Germany’s fleet of 85 Tornado fighter aircraft, Reuters reported Thursday. The official’s statement came days after the German defense ministry said it considers the Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft as its primary option to replace its Tornado jets by 2025. The […] More

  • Google Machine Learning Tool Aids Discovery of 8th Planet Around 'Sun-Like' Star - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Machine Learning Tool Aids Discovery of 8th Planet Around ‘Sun-Like’ Star

    NASA has discovered an eighth planet orbiting a Sun-like star named Kepler-90 using Google‘s machine learning tool. The space agency said Friday the machine learning platform identified the Kepler-90i planet by searching through data from the Kepler Space Telescope. Researchers Christopher Shallue and Andrew Vanderburg trained a computer, called an artificial neural network, to detect exoplanets in light readings recorded by […] More

  • Rubrik Gets Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification for Cloud Data Mgmt Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rubrik Gets Common Criteria EAL2+ Certification for Cloud Data Mgmt Platform

    Rubrik has secured Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ certification for a technology platform the company designed to help government customers secure data in cloud environments. The company said Wednesday its appliances met requirements during an information technology security evaluation that covered developer and independent tests, product lifecycle management and process assessment. Steve Alfieris, vice president and […] More

  • CSRA CEO Larry Prior Wins 'Tech Executive of the Year' Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA CEO Larry Prior Wins ‘Tech Executive of the Year’ Award

    CSRA President and CEO Larry Prior has been recognized as “Tech Executive of the Year” by the Northern Virginia Technology Council during an awards ceremony held Monday. Recipients of the annual award are selected based on executive leadership; the company’s financial growth; personal contributions to the local technology community; and the individual’s vision for the company’s […] More

  • Saab Opens UAE-Based Defense, Security Tech Production Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Opens UAE-Based Defense, Security Tech Production Hub

    Saab has inaugurated a development and production center for defense and security technology platforms in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, as part of expansion efforts. The company said Thursday it seeks to market product offerings from the new facility to UAE and international customers. Saab added the facility will initially manufacture sensor systems and may […] More

  • SecurityFirst Adds 3 Tech Firms to Partner Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SecurityFirst Adds 3 Tech Firms to Partner Program

    SecurityFirst has partnered with three other technology companies in a push to help government and enterprise customers protect assets with a data-based security platform. CMA, Sengex and First Nation Corp. will resell the DataKeep security software through the SecurityFirst Partner Program, SecurityFirst said Thursday. The program offers marketing support, sales enablement and channel pricing discounts meant […] More

  • Booz Allen to Support Navy GPS Directorate Under Potential $67M Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen to Support Navy GPS Directorate Under Potential $67M Contract

    Booz Allen Hamilton has received a potential five-year, $67.5 million contract for systems engineering support to the global positioning system directorate of the U.S. Navy‘s Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific. The contract will extend Booz Allen’s 15-year partnership with the service branch on  positioning, navigation and timing programs, the company said Thursday. Tom Pfeifer, an […] More

  • Army Taps Envision for Mission Software Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Taps Envision for Mission Software Support Contract

    Envision Innovation Solution has won a potential five-year, $45 million contract to provide support services to the platform mission software equipment branch within the U.S. Army‘s Software Engineering Center. The Army Contracting Command received seven offers for the contract via an online-based solicitation process, the Defense Department said Thursday. DoD noted locations and funds will be […] More

  • PC Krause and Associates to Help USAF Develop Air Vehicle Performance Modeling Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    PC Krause and Associates to Help USAF Develop Air Vehicle Performance Modeling Tech

    PC Krause and Associates has secured a potential $24.9 million contract to develop technology for the U.S. Air Force to model the performance of a heterogeneous air vehicle. The Defense Department said Thursday the company will produce tools designed to help increase aerospace system performance and address the service branch’s manned and unmanned air vehicle mission requirements. […] More

  • Govt Vets Eric Rosenbach, Katrina McFarland Join Endeavor Robotics’ Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Govt Vets Eric Rosenbach, Katrina McFarland Join Endeavor Robotics’ Advisory Board

    Endeavor Robotics has appointed former government officials Katrina McFarland and Eric Rosenbach to its newly created board of advisers. Rosenbach and McFarland will work to provide strategic guidance on the development of unmanned ground-based robotic systems in support of technology requirements of service personnel and first responders, Endeavor Robotics said Thursday. Endeavor Robotics CEO Sean […] More