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Raytheon to Support USAF Global Hawk Ground Station Sustainment, Cybersecurity; Todd Probert Quoted
Raytheon's intelligence, information and services business has received a $65M subcontract from Northrop Grumman to help sustain and secure the ground control segment of U.S. Air Force remotely piloted aircraft.
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Unisys’ Tom Patterson on How Emerging Tech Could Help ‘Global Society’
Tom Patterson, a vice president and chief trust officer of Unisys, will join the Cyber Future Dialogue 2019 on Tuesday to discuss how citizens and governments can utilize emerging technology such as artificial intelligence in efforts to ensure privacy and increase security.
DARPA Seeks Proposers for Data Verification Architecture Development Project
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a new program that aims to develop and commercialize hardware and software architectures for data tracking. The Guaranteed Architecture for Physical Security program is intended to secure high-risk data transactions and allow consumers to physically track these activities, DARPA said Wednesday.
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NTT DATA Holds Spot on $12B Army IT Services Contract; Kevin Durkin Quoted
NTT DATA Services’ federal government business is eligible to provide information technology services to the U.S. Army through the third iteration of the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions contract worth up to $12.1B over nine years.
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GrammaTech Secures DARPA Contract to Develop Autonomous Cybersecurity Tool
GrammaTech has landed a potential four-year, $8.4M contract from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to create a platform intended to perform autonomous and rapid deployment of protected configurations for commercial off-the-shelf equipment.
Leidos, AWS Execs on Potential Role of AI, Cloud, Analytics in Federal Cybersecurity
Keith Johnson of Leidos and Brett McMillen of Amazon Web Services discussed in an article published Tuesday on Federal News Network about cybersecurity and technology platforms that could be used by government agencies to address cyber vulnerabilities. McMillen, director of federal government at AWS, said he believes that cloud could help agencies detect and respond to cyber threats and cited the potential role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in cybersecurity.
Dell EMC Federal’s Cameron Chehreh: Data Lakes Could Help Agencies Derive More Insights
Cameron Chehreh, chief operating officer and chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said data lakes work to help federal agencies build “a consolidated and scalable agile repository†that allows them to generate insights from data, FedTech Magazine reported Friday. Chehreh noted that data lakes have the ability to take in any type of data, a feature that enables agencies to develop a mechanism to add metadata to help users with access to data lakes to easily tag and search information.
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DLT to Distribute Trend Micro Cybersecurity Platforms in Gov’t Market
DLT Solutions has agreed to offer Trend Micro-built cybersecurity technology products to public sector customers as a member of the latter's distributor partner network.
Microsoft to Include Automated Breach Analysis Tool in Gov’t, Top-End Office Bundles
Microsoft plans to add the Auto-Investigation with Threat Playbooks feature to two of its Office productivity suite bundles: Office 365 Enterprise E5 and, potentially, Office 365 Government GCC.
DARPA Seeks Proposals to Secure High Risk DoD, Industry Transactions
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will host a proposers day on Jan. 23 in Arlington, Va., to discuss a potential $54.4M program that aims to secure high-risk transactions across the Pentagon and industry.
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DoD Seeks Info on Potential Support Sources for Security Clearance Processing System
The Department of Defense has issued a request for information on potential contractors that could apply agile development methods to manage a new information technology system built to facilitate the background investigation process, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. The RFI comes as the Defense Security Service prepares to assume responsibilities over the security clearance process from […] More