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    Ignyte Platform to Commercialize Navy-Developed Security Compliance Checker Software

    The Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic and Ignyte Platform have signed a licensing agreement that permits the latter to commercially distribute compiled binaries of a NIWC-developed software used to automate federal security compliance checks. Ignyte was given the go-signal to use the Security Content Automation Protocol Compliance Checker Software source code earlier this year through the five-year […] More

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    Aerojet Rocketdyne, AFRL Test Fire eSR-19 Large Solid Rocket Motor

    Aerojet Rocketdyne and the Air Force Research Laboratory have conducted a qualification static fire test of a large solid rocket engine the company built for the Missile Defense Agency’s medium-range ballistic missile target. The company said Monday its Coleman Aerospace subsidiary developed the eSR-19, a revamped SR-19 variant, to feature a lighter composite case and performance […] More

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    Spirit AeroSystems to Develop Composite Airframe Manufacturing Concept Under NASA Project

    Spirit AeroSystems has booked a contract to develop a concept for making airframe structures for a project that supports NASA’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership with the aviation sector. NASA awarded the grant under the Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing project involving 14 organizations that will conduct initial development efforts, Spirit said Tuesday. The HiCAM awardees collectively […] More

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    Ensco Showcases Human Presence Sensor at CTA Summit; Jeff Stevens Quoted

    Ensco is exhibiting its human presence detection system offering at the 2023 Corrections Technology Association Summit, a four-day event that kicked off June 18 in Fort Myers, Florida. The engineering and technology company said Friday its MicroSearch system employs contactless vehicle sensors intended to boost safety for inspectors when detecting humans hidden in vehicles or shipping […] More

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    General Atomics Tests New Heavy Fuel Engine on Gray Eagle Drone

    General Atomics has performed the inaugural flight test of a 200HP heavy fuel engine using a Gray Eagle unmanned aircraft in an effort to demonstrate its suitability to replace the existing engine that powers the extended-range model of the U.S. Army’s drone. The company said Thursday its aeronautical and electromagnetic systems divisions co-developed the HFE 2.0’s […] More

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    Cybersecurity Company Cycuity Books $99M DOD Phase III Award to Enhance Microelectronics Security

    Cycuity, formerly Tortuga Logic, has received a potential seven-year, $99 million contract under Phase III of the Department of Defense’s Small Business Innovation Research program to develop its core microelectronics security assurance offering. The California-based company said Wednesday it will collaborate with defense and commercial entities on the research and development effort to ensure the security of […] More

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    Ken Campbell Takes Helm of Edgybees’ Newly-Formed US Arm

    Ken Campbell, former strategic growth director of national security engagements at Maxar Technologies, has been appointed as president of Israel-based Edgybees’ U.S. business arm. The software company said Wednesday the executive move comes amid efforts to expand the delivery of its georegistration software platform offerings outside its home country. In May, Edgybees Inc. was launched to meet […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    Carahsoft to Market Mimecast’s Cloud Security Services to Public Sector

    Carahsoft Technology will serve as a master government aggregator for Mimecast and offer the latter’s email and collaboration security services to public sector customers. Under the partnership, Carahsoft said Tuesday it will distribute Mimecast security and archiving offerings for Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace through its federal, state and local government contract vehicles and reseller partners. The […] More

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    AWS-Coalfire Partnership Targets Go-to-Market Support to Government, Commercial Service Providers

    Amazon Web Services and Coalfire have signed a collaboration pact to help providers quickly bring cloud and cybersecurity service offerings to the public and private sector markets. Coalfire said Tuesday the three-year agreement will include investing in market development and proof-of-concept efforts to support mutual clients and making a compliance management platform available on the AWS […] More

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    Raytheon Books $88M IDIQ Award for Navy Radar Engineering, Program Support

    Raytheon Technologies has secured a four-year, $87.5 million contract to engineer a long-range surveillance radar system installed at the U.S. Navy’s Forces Surveillance Support Center in Chesapeake, Virginia. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract covers engineering and program support for the Relocatable Over-the-Horizon Radar starting in August, the Department of Defense said Monday. DOD noted the company will […] More

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    Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform Now Available on DOD Digital Marketplace

    Pyramid Analytics’ artificial intelligence and machine learning-powered technology was made available on a Department of Defense digital marketplace of offerings designed to accelerate AI/ML adoption and procurement across DOD. The Pyramid Decision Intelligence Platform received an “Awardable” rating on the Tradewind Solutions Marketplace after undergoing competitive processes in line with federal requirements, the software developer said […] More

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    QuSecure Books SBIR Phase II Army Contract to Further Develop Post-Quantum Tech

    Software developer QuSecure has landed its second phase award from the U.S. Army under the Small Business Innovation Research program to continue researching and developing post-quantum cybersecurity technologies for the U.S. government. Phase II will involve creating quantum-resilient software and encryption tools for tactical edge and tactical internet of military things, the California-based PQC company said Thursday. […] More