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  • Booz Allen-Elastic Partnership Seeks to Help Clients Manage Data With Open Cloud-Based Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen-Elastic Partnership Seeks to Help Clients Manage Data With Open Cloud-Based Tech

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Elastic have formed a partnership with the intent to help public and private sector clients adopt open cloud-based technologies to analyze, manage and search large volumes of data. Elastic said Thursday the partnership aims to accelerate real-time analytics, logging, search and security programs as well as assist enterprise customers in efforts to increase their access to […] More

  • CenturyLink SVP Bill Bradley Joins RiskSense Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink SVP Bill Bradley Joins RiskSense Board of Directors

    Bill Bradley, senior vice president for cyber engineering and technology services at CenturyLink, has joined the board of directors of Albuquerque, New Mexico-based cyber risk management company RiskSense. The more than 30-year CenturyLink veteran oversees the development, maintenance and management of the communications technology firm’s internal cybersecurity and engineering functions, RiskSense said Monday. “Bill’s extensive experience in cyber security and industry relationships […] More

  • Jason Smolanoff Named Kroll Senior Managing Director, Leader for Global Cyber Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jason Smolanoff Named Kroll Senior Managing Director, Leader for Global Cyber Practice

    Jason Smolanoff, a former CEO of CISO Advisory & Investigations and a 12-year FBI veteran, has been appointed senior managing director at Kroll and leader of the company’s  global cyber security practice. Kroll said Tuesday the more than 16-year federal law enforcement and information security veteran previously supervised investigations of various sophisticated computer and network intrusions by state-sponsored organized crime, hacktivists […] 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

  • NSA Vet Curt Dukes Joins Center for Internet Security in EVP Role; John Gilligan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NSA Vet Curt Dukes Joins Center for Internet Security in EVP Role; John Gilligan Comments

    Curt Dukes, former director of the National Security Agency‘s information assurance directorate, has joined the Center for Internet Security as executive vice president. He will oversee the center’s security best practices automation group that handles  CIS controls and security benchmarks as well as tools designed to automate standards evaluation, CIS said Tuesday. Dukes will also lead efforts to expand the nonprofit’s standards content, […] More

  • Former FCI Exec Julie Mehan Named MetroStar Systems Director of Cybersecurity Strategy and Alignment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former FCI Exec Julie Mehan Named MetroStar Systems Director of Cybersecurity Strategy and Alignment

    Julie Mehan, former Femme Comp Inc. principal cybersecurity analyst, has been appointed as MetroStar Systems‘ new director of cybersecurity strategy and alignment as part of that company’s push to expand its cybersecurity capacity and thought leadership. MetroStar Systems said Tuesday Mehan, a 35-year cybersecurity veteran, will oversee the company’s efforts to boost its service portfolio as well […] More

  • DHS Opens Application Period on Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative for 2017 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Opens Application Period on Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative for 2017

    The Department of Homeland Security is accepting applications from current undergraduate and graduate students who are interested to join the 2017 Cyber Student Volunteer Initiative that aims to develop and expand the agency’s future cybersecurity workforce. DHS said Dec. 19 the selected students will receive hands-on experience and exposure to cybersecurity operations across the department as well […] More

  • Northrop Opens 2016-2017 UK National Youth Cyber Defense Competition - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Opens 2016-2017 UK National Youth Cyber Defense Competition

    Northrop Grumman has launched the U.K. national youth cyber defense competition for 2016-2017 in efforts to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics education. The company said Thursday CyberCenturion aims to encourage students to pursue cybersecurity related academic courses and careers and address the skills gap within the industry. More than 130 teams of 12-18 year olds registered for […] More

  • Booz Allen, Techstars Name 6 Teams for Cyber Tech Development Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen, Techstars Name 6 Teams for Cyber Tech Development Program

    Booz Allen Hamilton and Techstars have unveiled six teams comprised of startups and Booz Allen’s product teams that will work to develop cybersecurity technologies. Techstars said Monday it entered a partnership with Booz Allen to support and develop emerging technologies that could help address cybersecurity threats. The first class of the Startup Next Cyber pre-accelerator program includes Booz […] More

  • Air Force Seeks New Analytical Approaches to Boost Decision-Making Capacity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Seeks New Analytical Approaches to Boost Decision-Making Capacity

    The U.S. Air Force looks to develop new approaches to information fusion and analysis as well as new techniques to provide intelligence to decisionmakers using service-oriented architecture, open standards and analytical algorithms. A broad agency announcement published Wednesday on FedBizOpps calls for analytic services that can help the military branch understand data sources such as multi-intelligence and source fusion. The service branch also […] More

  • Kratos' RT Logic Subsidiary Hosts Cyber Event for Military, Industry, Academia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos’ RT Logic Subsidiary Hosts Cyber Event for Military, Industry, Academia

    A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary has started to host an event that aims to create a cyberspace training model that will help meet changes in cyberspace operations, threats and weapons development. RT Logic will host the “21st Century Cyber Training” event at its Colorado Springs-based headquarters through Nov. 4 to gather best practices among the military, private […] More

  • Cyber Startups Graduate from Northrop-bwtech@UMBC Cyber Incubator Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cyber Startups Graduate from Northrop-bwtech@UMBC Cyber Incubator Program

    Australia-based iWebgate and Baltimore-headquartered Light Point Security have completed Northrop Grumman and bwtech@UMBC Speed Tomorrow‘s global cyber startup initiative. The Cync program will work introduce iWebgate’s and Light Point Security’s new cyber offerings into the federal marketplace, Northrop said Monday. Chris Valentino, program director for cyber and intelligence mission solutions at Northrop, said the goal of the program is to […] More