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McKean Defense Wins $79M Navy Tactical Network Engineering Support IDIQ

McKean Defense Group has won a potential five-year, $69.8M contract to help the U.S. Navy engineer a tactical afloat network for battlespace information sharing and situational awareness. The company will provide programmatic and technical support for the Navy's Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services under the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with a $12.2M base value, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

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by Nichols Martin October 9, 2020, 4:07 am
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Kantara to Assess GSA Login Service’s Compliance With NIST Digital ID Guidelines

The General Services Administration has selected Kantara Initiative to perform third-party evaluation of the federal government's unified login service against digital identity protection standards set forth by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

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by Brenda Marie Rivers October 9, 2020, 3:32 am
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Infosys Releases Public Health Data Analytics Platform; Eric Paternoster Quoted

Infosys' U.S. public services subsidiary has introduced a cloud-based technology built to help government health organizations extract and analyze data from various sources to support policy development and decision-making processes.

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by Matthew Nelson October 9, 2020, 1:11 am
in Government Technology, News

BlackBerry, Microsoft Integrate Offerings for Remote Workforce; David Wiseman, Mike Ammerlaan Quoted

BlackBerry has integrated the AtHoc critical event management technology with Microsoft's communication and collaboration platform to support the virtual workforce. "This new capability to manage the incident response process through Teams will streamline communications and give greater visibility over the recovery progress of an unfolding event,â€ said David Wiseman, vice president of secure communications at BlackBerry.

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by Sarah Sybert October 9, 2020, 12:39 am
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Viasat Rolls Out NSA-Certified Handheld Radio Configuration; Andy Kessler Quoted

Viasat has unveiled a new configuration for its handheld Link 16 radio product designed to help military users communicate during ground or air missions. The National Security Agency cleared the updated AN/PRC-161 Battlefield Awareness and Targeting System â€“ Dismounted radio technology to support communications of U.S. general purpose forces, coalition troops and members of the â€œfive eyesâ€ international consortium, the company said Wednesday.

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by Matthew Nelson October 9, 2020, 12:18 am
in Executive Moves, News

Mercury CTO William Conley Joins Advisory Board at Center for Defense Concepts & Tech

William Conley, chief technology officer of Mercury Systems, has been named to the board of advisers at the Hudson Instituteâ€™s Center for Defense Concepts and Technology in Washington, D.C.

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by Matthew Nelson October 8, 2020, 11:45 am
in M&A Activity, News

Dun & Bradstreet to Acquire Bisnode for $818M; Anthony Jabbour Quoted

Dun & Bradstreet Holdings BV, a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet, has entered into a definitive agreement to purchase the outstanding shares of Bisnode Business Information Group AB for $818 million, Dun & Bradstreet reported on Wednesday. "[The acquisition] will provide our existing and future clients with vital business intelligence to support their own growth ambitions,â€ said Anthony Jabbour, CEO of Dun & Bradstreet.

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by Sarah Sybert October 8, 2020, 10:25 am
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1901 Group Partners with Zscaler to Advance Cybersecurity; Peter Amirkhan, Paul Wilkinson Quoted

1901 Group has joined the Zscaler ecosystem as a Public Sector channel partner, 1901 Group reported on Thursday. 1901 Group will leverage the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange cloud platform to help federal agencies adapt to telework with secure access to mission critical applications and data. â€œWorking in FISMA and/or FedRAMP environments takes specialized skill-sets and experience," said Peter Amirkhan, SVP of Public Sector at Zscaler.

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by Sarah Sybert October 8, 2020, 10:15 am
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Ball Aerospace Delivers Ozone Mapping Tech for NOAA’s Next Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellite; Makenzie Lystrup Quoted

A Ball Aerospace-built ozone layer monitoring instrument has been shipped to a manufacturing facility for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Joint Polar Satellite System-2 satellite.

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by Matthew Nelson October 8, 2020, 10:06 am
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Elbit Systems to Supply Army Helicopter Display Parts; Raanan Horowitz Quoted

Elbit Systems' U.S. subsidiary has received a five-year, $50M contract from the Defense Logistics Agency to provide spare parts for night vision imaging and head-up display systems being used by U.S. Army helicopter pilots.

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by Matthew Nelson October 8, 2020, 8:49 am
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Spaceflight to Support More HawkEye 360 Satellite Launches

Spaceflight has agreed to help HawkEye 360 launch three more clusters of the latterâ€™s radio frequency mapping satellite constellation. Spaceflight said Wednesday it will perform mission management, engineering and capacity support under a multiple launch services agreement with HawkEye 360.

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by Nichols Martin October 8, 2020, 8:27 am
in Cybersecurity News, Government Technology, News

SentinelOne Receives FedRAMP Approval for Endpoint Security Platform

SentinelOne has secured Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for an autonomous cybersecurity platform designed to protect end-user devices and workloads across a network.

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by Nichols Martin October 8, 2020, 8:21 am