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  • FireEye Adds New Android App to Mobile Threat Prevention Platform; Manish Gupta Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye Adds New Android App to Mobile Threat Prevention Platform; Manish Gupta Comments

    FireEye has added an application that works to protect Android-based devices from malware into the company’s Mobile Threat Prevention platform. The company said Tuesday the hybrid-cloud-based FireEye Mobile Security App will work to provide real-time visibility into existing mobile threats in the network through signature-less apps analysis to block and alert users to unsafe apps. “Mobile security, like advanced persistent threat […] More

  • Ric Lewis: HP Bolsters Enterprise Workload Mgmt Portfolio - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ric Lewis: HP Bolsters Enterprise Workload Mgmt Portfolio

    Hewlett Packard has unveiled new operating system, cloud computing and server products that seek to help organizations manage business workloads. The HP-UX 11iv3 operating system is designed to minimize downtime risk when operating in traditional or cloud computing environments and updating server applications, HP said Monday. According to the company, the OS features up to […] More

  • FireEye's Darien Kindlund: New Tactics Needed Amid Changing Threat Landscape - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FireEye’s Darien Kindlund: New Tactics Needed Amid Changing Threat Landscape

    Darien Kindlund, director of research science at FireEye, says that today’s changing threat landscape needs a flexible cybersecurity defense to match. “As attackers shift their strategies, the cyber defense industry is too, now moving away from a model built around identifying and remediating single attacks toward an environment where threat actors and their behaviors are […] More

  • Battelle Unveils 'Smart' Biodefense, Hazard Detection Tech; Matthew Shaw Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Battelle Unveils ‘Smart’ Biodefense, Hazard Detection Tech; Matthew Shaw Comments

    Battelle has begun production of a chemical and biological hazard sensor system for federal biodefense programs and commercial industry applications, with self-contained capabilities designed to limit operating costs and time to identify threats. The company said Monday the Resource Effective BioIdentification System is equipped with aerosol collection, optical spectroscopy capabilities and Internet connectivity. “Our warfighters, first responders, security […] More

  • ATK's Sporting Group to Become Independent Company As Part of Orbital Deal - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ATK’s Sporting Group to Become Independent Company As Part of Orbital Deal

    ATK‘s board of directors has approved a plan to spinoff its sporting group into an independent, publicly-traded company as part of an agreement to merge ATK’s aerospace and defense business groups with Orbital Sciences. Mark DeYoung, president and CEO of Arlington, Va.-based ATK, will serve as chairman and CEO of the commercial ammunition and sporting […] More

  • Saab Continues to Supply Component Parts to Aircraft Manufacturers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Saab Continues to Supply Component Parts to Aircraft Manufacturers

    Saab continues to support aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing by supplying composite and metal components, such as wing parts, doors and hatches under Saab’s civil aircraft production business based in Linköping, Sweden. Saab most recently signed a contract to supply the attachment structure for Airbus A350XWB-1000‘s landing flaps, the company said Sunday. The December 2013 contract extends Saab’s support […] More

  • Northrop Helps UK Adopt Internet Protocol System; Charles Houseago Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Helps UK Adopt Internet Protocol System; Charles Houseago Comments

    A Northrop Grumman air traffic management systems subsidiary has brought Internet protocol technology to the Imperial War Museum Duxford in the U.K. Northrop Grumman Park Air Systems updated the air traffic control’s voice communications system with the Park Air S4 IP Controller, the first of its kind to be installed in the U.K., Northrop said Monday. “We have […] More

  • SAP Plans to Hire 100 People at Romania IT Consultancy Center - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SAP Plans to Hire 100 People at Romania IT Consultancy Center

    SAP is looking to fill 100 open positions at a newly-opened information technology consultancy center in Romania by the end of this year, Romania Insider reported Tuesday.  The company aims to have 125 employees at the SAP Nearshore Delivery Unit Cluj-Napoca center by the end of 2015, according to the report. Nearly 30 employees currently work at the center with […] More

  • BRTRC Wins Army Field Support Services Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BRTRC Wins Army Field Support Services Contract

    BRTRC has been awarded a $9.6 million contract to provide operational and field-support services to the Army both inside and outside the continental U.S. BRTRC received the Mine Resistant Ambushed Protected Vehicles Operations Coordinator contract from the Army TACOM Contracting Center, the company announced March 24. “We are pleased to be able to continue supporting […] More

  • Cubic Awarded Middle East Air Combat Training Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Awarded Middle East Air Combat Training Support Contract

    Cubic Corp. has won a 21-month, $11 million contract to provide air combat training support services to an unidentified country in the Middle East. The company will help to operate and maintain air combat maneuvering systems and also perform logistics work, the company announced Monday. According to Cubic, the unnamed country has used Cubic’s instrumentation training system […] More

  • Daniel Barber Named SE Solutions Cybersecurity VP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Daniel Barber Named SE Solutions Cybersecurity VP

    Daniel Barber, former head of DRC/Engility‘s cybersecurity practice, has joined Strategic Enterprise Solutions as that company’s vice president of cybersecurity. Barber will manage SE Solutions’ cyber arm and focus on the company’s work in information assurance, risk management, continuous monitoring and ongoing authorization requirements, the company announced Monday. He will also be responsible for the company’s cyber […] More