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  • CenturyLink’s Cynthia Shelton to Speak at NATO Conference’s Women in Cybersecurity Forum - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink’s Cynthia Shelton to Speak at NATO Conference’s Women in Cybersecurity Forum

    Cynthia Shelton, director of special program sales for government markets at CenturyLink, is scheduled to speak today, Oct. 19, at the three-day NATO Information Assurance Symposium that kicked off Tuesday in Mons, Belgium. Shelton will serve as a panelist at the annual symposium’s Women in Cybersecurity Forum and discuss her experience in overseeing CenturyLink’s relationship […] More

  • Mercedes LeGrand Receives ExecutiveBiz’s 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercedes LeGrand Receives ExecutiveBiz’s 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award

    ExecutiveBiz is pleased to name Mercedes LeGrand, Executive Director at Russell Reynolds Associates, as a recipient of its 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiters Award. Mercedes LeGrand is a member of the Russell Reynolds Associates’ Technology and Industrial Goods Sectors. She focuses primarily on defense-related technology companies and associated market and leadership trends. She is […] More

  • BlueRISC to Develop Malware Prediction, Detection System Under DHS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BlueRISC to Develop Malware Prediction, Detection System Under DHS Contract

    The Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate has awarded BlueRISC a $750,000 contract to develop a technology platform for network and system defenders to predict and detect malware. DHS said Thursday BlueRISC will create a cyberattack forecasting prototype with the use of Graph Inference Theory and machine learning under the Malware Prediction for Situational Understanding and […] More

  • Progeny to Help DHS Create Mobile App Development Security Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Progeny to Help DHS Create Mobile App Development Security Framework

    Progeny Systems has received a $749,928 grant from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to craft a framework to secure mobile application development and deployment processes. DHS said Wednesday Progeny will collaborate with Microsoft‘s Xamarin subsidiary to produce the framework for enterprise organizations to safeguard iOS, Windows and Android mobile applications. “This project will help […] More

  • DHS Taps Heilig Defense for Finance Sector Cybersecurity Grant - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Taps Heilig Defense for Finance Sector Cybersecurity Grant

    Heilig Defense has received a $67,152 grant from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to help strengthen the cybersecurity of financial institutions with a company-built technology. DHS said Tuesday the company will further develop its Memory Sentry platform designed to guard applications against memory-safety bugs. Eric Harder, program manager for DHS S&T’s Next Generation Cyber Infrastructure Apex program, […] More

  • Red Hat Govt Symposium to Tackle Open Source Collaboration; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat Govt Symposium to Tackle Open Source Collaboration; Paul Smith Comments

    Red Hat will hold its annual government symposium on Nov. 9 in Washington, D.C. to highlight the potential advantages of open source collaboration and emerging technology for federal agency missions. The company said Tuesday the symposium, themed “Open first: building a foundation for choice and security,” will feature sessions, demos and panel discussions that will tackle […] More

  • Small Business Red Balloon Security to Update Cybersecurity Tool for DHS - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Small Business Red Balloon Security to Update Cybersecurity Tool for DHS

    The Department of Homeland Security science and technology directorate has awarded Red Balloon Security a $746,756 Small Business Innovation Research contract to update its Symbiote Defense intrusion detection system for the agency. DHS said Thursday the New York-based company will inject four new features to the system as part of the Hybrid Prediction for Embedded Malware project under the two-year SBIR […] More

  • General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson to Speak at TTC UAS Symposium - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics’ Chris Pehrson to Speak at TTC UAS Symposium

    Chris Pehrson, vice president for Defense Department strategic development at General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business, will serve as a guest speaker at Technology Training Corp.-hosted Unmanned Aircraft Systems East for Defense and Government symposium that will kick off Saturday, Nov. 7, in Washington, D.C. Pehrson is one of the 24 guest presenters who will discuss emerging […] More

  • Summit Technical Solutions Lands USAF Contract for Radar Operations & Maintenance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Summit Technical Solutions Lands USAF Contract for Radar Operations & Maintenance

    Summit Technical Solutions has received a potential $35.5 million prime contract from the U.S. Air Force for the operations, maintenance and logistical support of a missile warning and space surveillance phased-array radar system. The contract for work on the Perimeter Acquisition Radar Attack Characterization System has a base performance period of seven months starting October and one-year […] More

  • Kryptowire-Qualcomm Team Gets DHS Contract to Demo Mobile Security Framework - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kryptowire-Qualcomm Team Gets DHS Contract to Demo Mobile Security Framework

    Kryptowire and Qualcomm‘s cybersecurity business have received a $1.8 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security‘s science and technology directorate to demonstrate a framework that seeks to validate and protect third-party mobile applications and services. The team will test Qualcomm’s Mission-Critical-Grade Security Layer framework that employs the Snapdragon Mobile Security Platform with Kryptowire’s military-grade application security testing platform, Kryptowire said Thursday. […] More

  • Jacqueline Arends Receives ExecutiveBiz's 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacqueline Arends Receives ExecutiveBiz’s 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiter Award

    ExecutiveBiz announced its recent selection of the 2017 Top 10 GovCon Executive Recruiters. ExecutiveBiz spoke to senior leaders at some of the GovCon sector’s most notable firms to find out whom they turn to when they need to fill an executive position. In our conversations, those GovCon leaders offered us the names of 10 executive recruiters they believe “you […] More