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  • CenturyLink to Offer Colocation, Cloud & Security Services via G2G Marketplace
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    CenturyLink to Offer Colocation, Cloud & Security Services via G2G Marketplace

    CenturyLink will offer its colocation, cloud and security services to state and local government agencies through the G2G Marketplace online procurement portal. G2G Marketplace works to provide technology services to agencies through its website, which can also facilitate the purchase of technology and professional services with pre-negotiated blanket purchase agreements, CenturyLink said Tuesday. Rick Buyens, CenturyLink regional sales vice president, said […] More

  • Belden Updates Industrial Security Appliance Offering; Rekha Shenoy Comments
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    Belden Updates Industrial Security Appliance Offering; Rekha Shenoy Comments

    Belden has updated the company’s industrial security appliance offering to include support for energy-specific communication protocols meant to help guard power generation and transmission facilities against cyber threats. The Tofino Xenon platform works to counter malicious and unauthorized access, increase supervisory control and data acquisition system and secure industrial control system devices, Belden said Tuesday. “Protecting the critical infrastructure that drives […] More

  • BMC’s Digital Service Mgmt Application Receives FedRAMP Certification
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    BMC’s Digital Service Mgmt Application Receives FedRAMP Certification

    BMC‘s cloud-based digital service management application has been certified under the U.S. governmentwide Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program that makes the product available to federal agencies. The Agriculture Department-sponsored Remedy OnDemand service for federal agencies will use the FedRAMP-certified Amazon Web Services cloud to provide IT service management options to help clients meet mission requirements, BMC said Wednesday. “Security […] More

  • Esri to Exhibit ArcGIS-Based Geospatial Tools; John Day Comments
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    Esri to Exhibit ArcGIS-Based Geospatial Tools; John Day Comments

    Esri is scheduled to showcase the company’s geospatial technology offerings at the GEOINT Symposium from May 15 to 18 and conduct a free training session during the event slated to take place in Orlando, Florida. Esri staff will discuss on-site how ArcGIS platform-based geospatial technologies provide intelligence on defense and national security to customers, Esri said Tuesday. […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Saab Optronic Sensors for Canadian Navy’s Fire Control Directors
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    Lockheed Picks Saab Optronic Sensors for Canadian Navy’s Fire Control Directors

    Saab has come to an agreement with Lockheed Martin‘s subsidiary in Canada to install additional optronic sensors in the former’s Ceros 200 fire control directors used by the country’s navy on the branch’s Halifax-class frigates and land-based test sites. The optronic sensors will work to deliver additional support to the radar functions of the Ceros 200, Saab said Monday. Ceros 200 […] More

  • Naval Research Lab, General Atomics to Collaborate on Radar Tech Integration Project
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    Naval Research Lab, General Atomics to Collaborate on Radar Tech Integration Project

    The Naval Research Laboratory has partnered with a General Atomics subsidiary to embed NRL-built inverse synthetic aperture radar imaging software into the company’s Lynx multimode radar system. NRL and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. will work to build integrated radar technology for joint warfighter missions under a cooperative research and development agreement, according to an article published Tuesday on the U.S. Navy website. Thomas Pizzillo, […] More

  • Thales to Supply Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing System to Spain’s Air Force
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    Thales to Supply Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing System to Spain’s Air Force

    Thales has been awarded a contract from Spain’s defense ministry to supply and install 80 of the company’s Scorpion Helmet Mounted Cueing Systems on that country’s fleet of EF-18 Hornet aircraft flown. The company said Thursday it will develop and produce the helmet cueing systems plus conduct a viability study, tests, integration with test aircraft, qualification support and fleet integration for Spain’s […] More

  • Textron Unit Unveils New UAS Training, Maintenance Facility to Support Nat’l Airspace Integration
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    Textron Unit Unveils New UAS Training, Maintenance Facility to Support Nat’l Airspace Integration

    A Textron business unit has established a new facility for unmanned aircraft system training and maintenance activities to support research on UAS integration into national airspace. The unmanned systems service and support center houses Textron Systems‘ training and global service operations, the company’s schoolhouse for operators and maintainers and its sustainment operations for the Aerosonde small UAS, Textron said Monday. “With this […] More

  • GSA Posts RFI on Supply Chain Risk Management System for Gov’t Market Offerings
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    GSA Posts RFI on Supply Chain Risk Management System for Gov’t Market Offerings

    The General Services Administration‘s Federal Acquisition Service is requesting information on tools that could track and authenticate information and communication products distributed in the federal market to manage supply chain risk. In a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday, GSA said the targeted supply chain management tool is an integrated and portable device set that could detect tampered, counterfeit and grey market products. GSA added it wants […] More

  • Missile Defense Agency Taps ManTech for Counterintelligence Program Support
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    Missile Defense Agency Taps ManTech for Counterintelligence Program Support

    ManTech International has won a potential five-year, $32.1 million contract to provide advisory and assistance services for the Missile Defense Agency‘s counterintelligence programs. The Defense Department said Tuesday the company will support counterintelligence missions and functional areas covered by the DoD Directive 5240.02. ManTech will work to help MDA detect, identify, exploit and work to neutralize intelligence collection efforts against agency personnel, data, facilities, material, […] More

  • Applied DNA Sciences Receives Security, Authentication Tech Contract From US Agency
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    Applied DNA Sciences Receives Security, Authentication Tech Contract From US Agency

    Applied DNA Sciences has been awarded a five-year, $2.5 million contract to provide botanical-DNA based security and authentication tools to an unidentified U.S. government agency. The company said Tuesday the government customer will have access to its SigNature DNA products under the blanket purchase agreement and Applied DNA Sciences will also develop new products throughout […] More

  • Study: 781 Data Breaches Occurred in Public, Private Sectors During 2015
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    Study: 781 Data Breaches Occurred in Public, Private Sectors During 2015

    The Identity Theft Resource Center found during a study that there were 781 publicly reported data breaches across the U.S. public and private sectors during 2015. Forty-percent of those breaches tracked by ITRC occurred in the business sector, an 8.1 percent increase from 2014 figures, the center said Jan. 25. Healthcare organizations had the second highest percentage of data security incidents last […] More