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Fujitsu has linked its cyber threat intelligence utilization system with the Department of Homeland Security‘s CTI sharing system as part of DHS’ Automated Indicator Sharing program. The connection was established in June and will allow Fujitsu to analyze its own CTI as well as threat information from the AIS program, which involves government and private institutions in U.S. […] More
CSRA has awarded SkyePoint Decisions a five-year, $10 million subcontract to provide cybersecurity support services to the Environmental Protection Agency. SkyePoint said Tuesday it will help the EPA Office of Information Technology Operations to secure virtual and cloud network components as well as consolidate IT infrastructure and management functions under the OITO’s Infrastructure Support and Applications Hosting project. Bo Kimbrough, founder […] More
Airbus‘ defense and space segment has developed and tested an unmanned aerial vehicle demonstrator as part of efforts to aid the development of future UAV technology. The jet-propelled SAGITTA drone flew autonomously on a pre-programmed course for approximately seven minutes over a test site in South Africa, Airbus said Tuesday. SAGITTA is powered by electromechanical actuators and its airframe is made […] More
The General Services Administration‘s Technology Transformation Service has kicked off a search for potential industry sources of crowd-sourced security and penetration testing services. TTS needs assistance in testing a shared authentication platform dubbed Login.gov that is designed to give each citizen a single digital identity that can be used to access online services from participating federal agencies, GSA said Monday is […] More
A new Splunk study has found that at least 60 percent of information technology executives in the public sector said they are less confident in executing tasks in various areas of IT operations than they did in the past year. Those areas include management of complexity and scale of IT operations, immediate identification of root […] More
Planet has entered a $14 million agreement with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to provide the Defense Department and the Intelligence Community with access to the company’s imagery of more than 25 regions of interest. NGA said Wednesday that the one-year subscription agreement, which was made through the company’s General Services Administration Information Technology Schedule contract, will support ongoing foundation […] More
SOS International has secured a five-year, $9 million contract from the U.S. Army to support the military branch’s public affairs office at Resolute Support headquarters in Afghanistan. SOSi said Wednesday it will help the Army deputy chief of staff communications and PAO personnel disseminate information to local, regional and international media as well as counter the spread […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a $37.7 million contract to continue design work on a wing that will help boost the range capacity of the U.S. Air Force‘s air-to-surface missile system. The company said Wednesday it aims to develop a new Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile–Extended Range wing for incorporation into JASSM-ER production lot 17. “We’ve developed a novel design that provides additional […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a Proposers Day on Aug. 15 in Arlington, Virginia, to discuss a program that seeks to boost the safety of autonomous systems. DARPA said Monday it aims to develop design and analysis tools that can help guarantee the safety of autonomous platforms and support the use of such systems in “safety-critical” […] More
A team composed of Leonardo DRS and Moog has secured a $16 million contract to help the U.S. Army develop a technology for soldiers to identify, detect and track unmanned aerial system threats. The team will equip a mobile counter-UAS platform with Leonardo DRS’Â surveillance and battlefield reconnaissance equipment, Moog’s reconfigurable integrated-weapons platform and government-provided technologies, […] More
Battelle has received a three-year, $13.8 million task order to provide training support to the National Guard Bureau‘s Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction Division. The nonproft organization said Wednesday it will help train WMD and chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosives response teams under the task order. The order falls under the Defense Technical Information Center’s Homeland Defense & […] More
Hortonworks has made a series of leadership changes as part of a push to drive growth strategy and operational performance at the Santa Clara, California-based open data technology firm. Chief Financial Officer Scott Davidson has assumed additional duties as chief operating officer of Hortonworks, the company said Tuesday. He succeeds the departing president and COO Rajnish Verma […] More
