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  • J. Andrew Valentine Joins Kroll as Cybersecurity & Investigations Associate Managing Director; David Fontaine Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    J. Andrew Valentine Joins Kroll as Cybersecurity & Investigations Associate Managing Director; David Fontaine Comments

    J. Andrew Valentine, a 14-year cybersecurity professional, has joined New York-based risk consulting firm Kroll as associate managing director of the company’s cybersecurity and investigations practice. Kroll CEO David Fontaine said Wednesday Valentine’s investigative and technical skills as well as his experience in cyber incident management will help the company expand its cyber practice. Valentine previously […] More

  • Ionic Security Joins DHS Internet of Things System Security Initiative - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ionic Security Joins DHS Internet of Things System Security Initiative

    Ionic Security has received $119,000 in funds from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to help develop new approaches for DHS to secure and monitor Internet of Things systems and carry out detection functions. DHS said Tuesday that the company’s team plans to apply a new distributed data protection model to address challenges the department faces […] More

  • DHS Taps USC Information Sciences Institute to Develop Internet Outage Detection Tool - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Taps USC Information Sciences Institute to Develop Internet Outage Detection Tool

    The University of Southern California’s information sciences institute has received a potential $800,000 contract from the Department of Homeland Security to research and develop new platforms that work to detect and report internet outages. The cybersecurity division under DHS’ science and technology directorate awarded the contract as part of the Internet Measurement and Attack Modeling project […] More

  • TDA Research Receives DHS Funds to Build New Firefighter Respiration System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TDA Research Receives DHS Funds to Build New Firefighter Respiration System

    TDA Research has received $980,531 in funds from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to develop a respiration system for firefighters to protect themselves against chemical vapors and hazards on overhaul missions. DHS said Friday that the company will create a lightweight filtration system that will support work to support firefighters during overhaul efforts with respiratory protection […] More

  • Hitron Technologies to Help DHS Engineer Body-Worn Camera Activation System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitron Technologies to Help DHS Engineer Body-Worn Camera Activation System

    Hitron Technologies Inc. has been awarded a 16-month, $441,706 contract with the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate to develop an automated activation system for body-worn cameras for first responders. The company said Thursday it aims to incorporate sensors that use short-range radio signals into the system to automate the activation of a responder’s body-worn camera depending […] More

  • CenturyLink Adds Cybersecurity Services to GSA Schedule; Tim Meehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink Adds Cybersecurity Services to GSA Schedule; Tim Meehan Comments

    CenturyLink has included a suite of cybersecurity services in its General Services Administration Schedule contract as the company aims to help customer agencies protect their information technology systems. The company said Thursday its Enhanced Cybersecurity Services portfolio comprises  email filtering, domain name system protection and signature-based intrusion prevention offerings. “Adding ECS to our IT Schedule 70 contract underscores our commitment to help […] More

  • International Computer Science Institute Receives DHS S&T Grant For Privacy Protection Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    International Computer Science Institute Receives DHS S&T Grant For Privacy Protection Tech Development

    The International Computer Science Institute has received $664,378 in funds from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to develop privacy intrusion detection technology for use on mobile devices. DHS said Wednesday the Berkeley, California-based research organization secured the award through a broad agency announcement of DHS S&T’s cybersecurity division. The award is part of the S&T’s directorate’s […] More

  • DHS Orders Emergency Responder Uniforms From Mission Ready Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Orders Emergency Responder Uniforms From Mission Ready Services

    Mission Ready Services has received an order from the Department of Homeland Security to produce an additional 176 uniform in cooperation with North Carolina State University for emergency responders. NCSU will subject the additional uniforms through further systems-level tests and DHS will perform field evaluations on the units, Mission Ready Services said Tuesday. Mission Ready Services’ […] More

  • DHS to Hold Agile IT Support Industry Day - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS to Hold Agile IT Support Industry Day

    The Department of Homeland Security will hold an industry day Wednesday in Washington to discuss its planned department-wide contract vehicle for “agile” information technology support services. The event will feature a networking session for contractors and non-traditional vendors who aim to do business with the federal government, DHS said in a notice posted on FedBizOpps. DHS originally released a request for information in […] More

  • Fedscoop: IARPA Solicits Information on DHS' Biometric Systems Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fedscoop: IARPA Solicits Information on DHS’ Biometric Systems Security

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has released a broad agency announcement that seeks industry feedback on a project that aims to secure the Department of Homeland Security‘s biometric systems against threats, Fedscoop reported Monday. Kayla Nick-Kearney writes the Odin program will be fully launched in 2018 to find technologies that will work to protect DHS’ biometrics systems at ports and borders. Chris Boehnen, Odin program manager at IARPA, […] More

  • Microsoft, CSRA, Amazon Web Services Receive FedRAMP High Baseline Cloud Designation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft, CSRA, Amazon Web Services Receive FedRAMP High Baseline Cloud Designation

    Microsoft, CSRA and Amazon Web Services have each received a newly-created high baseline designation under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to operate their cloud computing offerings on sensitive, unclassified systems for agencies. The FedRAMP program management office says the new high baseline level is intended to unlock nearly $40 billion in information technology funds per year […] More

  • Smiths Detection Gets DHS Follow-On Order for Handheld Radiation Detector Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Smiths Detection Gets DHS Follow-On Order for Handheld Radiation Detector Tech

    Smiths Detection has received a $40.9 million follow-on task order from the Department of Homeland Security to supply a handheld radiation detection and identification system to DHS’ Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. The company said Tuesday it will provide its RadSeeker technology for department  personnel to detect, locate and identify the source of radiological materials. “RadSeeker technology was developed in cooperation with […] More