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  • CSRA Redesigns Website, Launches New Tagline As Part of Rebranding Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CSRA Redesigns Website, Launches New Tagline As Part of Rebranding Effort

    CSRA has introduced a new website and adopted the tagline “Think Next. Now” as part of a rebranding initiative to highlight the government technology services contractor’s efforts to deliver innovative platforms and attract talent. The company said Monday the redesigned website includes expanded content on CSRA’s cybersecurity, digital platforms, intelligent business process support, data and analytics and enterprise […] More

  • Leidos to Sponsor Air Force Association's Cyber Education Program; Chuck Heflebower Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos to Sponsor Air Force Association’s Cyber Education Program; Chuck Heflebower Comments

    Leidos will continue to sponsor the Air Force Association’s cyber education program for the eighth consecutive year. AFA said Monday Leidos has supported CyberPatriot as a Cyber Silver sponsor since the program’s inception in 2009 to help develop students’ cyber skills and interest in science, technology, engineering and math careers. “We at Leidos are very proud of our founding […] More

  • OASIS, Tech Firms Seek to Advance Use of Standard Format for Cyber Vulnerability Disclosure - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OASIS, Tech Firms Seek to Advance Use of Standard Format for Cyber Vulnerability Disclosure

    The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards has partnered with technology firms and other organizations to advance the adoption of a standard format designed to automate reporting of cyber vulnerabilities. The Common Security Advisory Framework developed by the OASIS’ technical committee works to facilitate interoperability and production of machine-readable vulnerability data and builds […] More

  • Cisco, CERT India Forge Threat Intell Sharing Partnership; Dinesh Malkani Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cisco, CERT India Forge Threat Intell Sharing Partnership; Dinesh Malkani Comments

    Cisco and the Computer Emergency Response Team in India have inked a memorandum of understanding to forge a threat intelligence sharing program in the country to help combat cyber threats, The Economic Times reported Thursday. Neha Alawadhi writes teams from Cisco and CERT-In will join forces to respond to cyber incidents, identify emerging security market […] More

  • Cecile Willems: Cisco Unveils New Cloud-Based Data Stream Mgmt Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cecile Willems: Cisco Unveils New Cloud-Based Data Stream Mgmt Tool

     Cisco has launched a new cloud-based tool designed to provide a centralized mechanism that will manage data streams and help cities capture, analyze and share data across organizations, sectors and residents. Cecile Willems, a director at Cisco’s global public sector business, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday, the Smart+Connected Digital Platform uses integrated smart […] More

  • Collab9 Lands State Cooperative Purchasing Contract for Unified Comms Cloud Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collab9 Lands State Cooperative Purchasing Contract for Unified Comms Cloud Service

    Collab9 has secured a contract from the state of Utah to offer the company’s unified communications-as-a-service platform to participating U.S. states under the NASPO ValuePoint Cooperative Purchasing Organization. The company said Monday its Cisco-powered UCaaS cloud service works to facilitate voice and video calls; provide mobility, customer care applications and E911 functionality; and support integration with Microsoft 365, Skype […] More

  • Root9B CEO Eric Hipkins Named to Cybersecurity Ventures' Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Root9B CEO Eric Hipkins Named to Cybersecurity Ventures’ Advisory Board

    Root9B CEO Eric Hipkins has joined the board of advisers at Cybersecurity Ventures and will provide advice to the latter company’s leadership team that includes founder and CEO Steve Morgan. Hipkins said Thursday that he aims to share root9B’s experience and assist Cybersecurity Ventures’ advisory board to help drive the future of cyber defense. “We are now placing a […] More

  • MEF16 UNITE Partner Summit to Gather Open Source, Standards Leaders in Support of Orchestrated Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MEF16 UNITE Partner Summit to Gather Open Source, Standards Leaders in Support of Orchestrated Services

    Open source and standards organization leaders are set to participate at the MEF16 UNITE Partner Summit in an effort to advance the use of standardized open application programming interfaces to drive the development of orchestrated services. MEF said Monday the summit will be part of the MEF16 conference that aims to further standardization to support orchestrated on-demand connectivity and […] More

  • UMUC to Continue Support for Air Force Association's CyberPatriot - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    UMUC to Continue Support for Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot

    The University of Maryland University College will continue to sponsor the Air Force Association’s national youth cyber education program for a fourth consecutive year. UMUC said Thursday it will support the CyberPatriot program in an effort to promote science, technology, engineering, mathematics and cybersecurity education to students. The 2015-2016 CyberPatriot National Defense Competition aims to develop the skills of youth participants via […] More

  • MarketsandMarkets Forecasts 25.6% Cloud Computing CAGR in Education Market by 2021 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    MarketsandMarkets Forecasts 25.6% Cloud Computing CAGR in Education Market by 2021

    A MarketsandMarkets report forecasts a compound annual growth rate of 25.6 percent for the global cloud computing in education market over the next five years. The 151-page report estimates that revenue for education-related cloud computing products and services will reach $25.36 billion by 2021 from $8.13 billion in 2016, the RnR Market Research said Oct. 6. Public cloud deployment type is projected […] More

  • BlueLine Grid, Cisco to Integrate Collaboration Tools for Public Safety Market - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlueLine Grid, Cisco to Integrate Collaboration Tools for Public Safety Market

    Cisco and BlueLine Grid have partnered to integrate the companies’ collaboration platforms in an effort to help facilitate digital public-safety communications between law enforcement agencies and and private sector stakeholders. Matt Melton, director of sales at BlueLine Grid, wrote in a guest post published Tuesday on Cisco’s website that the companies will highlight their partnership during the annual International Association of Chiefs of […] More

  • Collab9 Obtains FedRAMP Authorization for Unified Comms Platform; Kevin Schatzle Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collab9 Obtains FedRAMP Authorization for Unified Comms Platform; Kevin Schatzle Comments

    Los Angeles-based cloud communication services provider collab9 has received an authority-to-operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its unified communications-as-a-service platform to public sector organizations. The Federal Communications Commission sponsored collab9 to comply with the FedRAMP authorization process for its Cisco-hosted UCaaS cloud service designed for voice and collaboration applications, the […] More