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    HII to Support Marine Corps’ CBRNE Consequence Management Program

    An HII business unit has received a one-year, $15.3 million contract to help the U.S. Marine Corps develop plans and policies, for responding to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and high-yield explosive events. HII Defense and Federal Solutions will provide other technical services to the branch’s CBRNE Consequence Management Program, the Department of Defense said Monday. The group will […] More

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    Small Businesses to Prototype Edge Devices, Radio Tech Under Army SBIR Contracts

    Five companies have secured 18-month grants from the U.S. Army to continue developing prototypes of mission critical technologies as part of the second phase of the Small Business Innovation Research Program. The service branch said Thursday it awarded up to $1.7 million to each SBIR participant to support the transition of artificial intelligence and machine […] More

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    Palantir to Expand Implementation of Data, AI/ML Capabilities Under $100M Army Contract

    Palantir Technologies has received a two-year, $99.9 million contract from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory to extend the application of its data artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to users across the globe, particularly the Department of Defense’s combatant commands. The software company said Thursday the contract builds on its earlier partnership with the research lab […] More

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    Leidos Books $53M Navy Task Order to Research Warfighter Performance; Liz Porter Quoted

    Leidos has secured a potential 66-month, $53 million task order from the U.S. Navy to study warfighters’ performance in air, water and special warfare settings and help increase their survivability in the mentioned environments. The company said Wednesday it will collect and analyze data, perform statistical analysis as well as provide computer programming and scientific reporting […] More

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    USmax Receives $79M USAID General Support Services Task Order

    USmax, an information technology and professional services firm, has secured a five-year, $79 million task order to provide general support services to the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Democracy, Development and Innovation. The Fairfax, Virginia-based contractor said Tuesday it will perform program management, financial analysis, acquisition and other services in support of DDI’s […] More

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    Amentum Wins $59M Air Force Contract for Aerospace Support Services

    Amentum has received a $58.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to provide aerospace support services at several military bases in California and Florida through Feb. 28, 2030. The company will help manage, operate and maintain unconventional fuel-powered launch programs and provide other support services for engineering, aerospace ground equipment, hazardous operations and cryogenics and […] More

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    Dewberry Receives NOAA Contract Extension for Alaska Mapping Project

    Dewberry has secured a contract extension from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to continue assisting a U.S. Geological Survey arm in modernizing critical Alaska map layers. The firm said Friday it will help the Alaska Mapping Executive Committee with the Alaska Coastal Mapping Strategy. The contractor will support planning activities, analyze data and coordinate with stakeholders under […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    Google Workspace Granted DOD Impact Level 4 Authorization

    Google has secured Impact Level 4 authorization from the Department of Defense for Google Workspace, its cloud computing software formerly known as G Suite. Google Workspace is now approved for use when handling controlled unclassified information of federal government customers to ensure secure collaboration as well as seamless operation, Will Grannis, CEO of Google’s public sector business, wrote […] More

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    Microsoft’s Cloud-Based Desktop Virtualization Service Now Accredited for Use by Azure Government Secret Customers

    Microsoft has made its cloud-based desktop virtualization service generally available for users of an Azure Government platform version that supports U.S. agencies working with secret-level data. The offering of Azure Virtual Desktop to Azure Government Secret customers followed Microsoft’s receipt of Department of Defense Impact Level 6 accreditation for the product formerly known as Windows Virtual […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity News, News

    NCCoE Taps 12 Companies to Help Standardize Post-Quantum Practices

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with 12 technology companies on a demonstration project the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence launched in support of efforts to standardize practices for post-quantum cryptography. Collaborators for the Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography project will aim to showcase tools that could be used to automatically discover usage of […] More

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    DTRA Seeks Info on Consolidated DevSecOps Platform Development

    The Defense Threat Reduction Agency is soliciting input on developing a consolidated platform that is meant to employ a DevSecOps approach to creating artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science technologies. In a call for information notice posted Friday, DTRA said its Digital Battlespace Management Division intends to build a platform for government program information sharing […] More