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    Delta Risk to Provide Cybersecurity Services via GSA IT Schedule 70

    Delta Risk has secured a potential 20-year contract from the General Services Administration to offer a range of cybersecurity services to federal government agencies via GSA’s Information Technology Schedule 70 procurement vehicle. The company said Tuesday it will provide services under six special item numbers, including the four “highly adaptive” cybersecurity services SINs. Delta Risk was awarded the […] More

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    DLT-Titus Team to Offer Security, Data Loss Protection Products in Public Sector

    DLT Solutions and Titus have partnered to offer technology platforms designed to help government clients secure information and prevent data loss. Titus’ suite of data classification products is available to government agencies via DLT’s spot under NASA‘s Solutions for Enterprise Wide Procurement V contract vehicle, DLT said Tuesday. Mitch Robinson, Titus president and COO, said DLT’s procurement process will complement Titus’ […] More

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    Charles River Analytics-Led Team Gets DARPA Contract to Support Artificial Intelligence Program

    A team led by Charles River Analytics has secured a four-year contract worth approximately $8 million to support the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency‘s Explainable Artificial Intelligence program, which seeks to make artificial intelligence easier to explain. Charles River said Monday its team — comprised of Brown University, University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Roth Cognitive Engineering — will carry out […] More

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    Serco Inc. to Help DLA Manage Hazardous Materials Under $101M Contract; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco Group‘s North American subsidiary will perform supply chain management support for hazardous materials under a potential five-year, $101.5 million contract the Defense Logistics Agency awarded in May. Serco Inc. will assist DLA’s distribution unit in planning, forecasting, data management, procurement, inventory, storage management and environmental reporting efforts related to hazardous waste disposal, the company said Monday. Dan Allen, Serco Inc. chairman and CEO, said […] More

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    ViON Subsidiary, X-IO Partner on High-Performance Computing Tech Offering

    ViON‘s Ascolta subsidiary and X-IO Technologies have partnered to offer a high-performance computing platform that will work to help enterprise clients manage large volumes of data for cyber and intelligence defense missions. The partnership seeks to integrate Ascolta’s customer lifecycle services with X-IO’s Axellio platform, designed to support applications that process sensor-based data, ViON said Tuesday. John Mansfield, senior vice president of […] More

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    Report: Navy to Release RFP for MQ-25A Unmanned Tanker Deployment

    The U.S. Navy will issue a request for proposals later this year for the deployment of the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned aerial refueling tanker, USNI News reported Monday. Four competitors under the MQ-25A program will receive the RFP, including General Atomics, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman. The companies received one-year contract modifications from the Navy in April to perform risk reduction […] More

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    Chimera Secures DTRA Advisory, Assistance Services Contract

    Chimera Enterprises International has received a potential five-year, $45 million contract for advisory and assistance services to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency‘s operations, readiness and exercises directorate. The Defense Department said Monday Chimera will help the directorate research. plan, design, develop, implement, integrate and apply transitioning systems that deal with weapons of mass destruction. Work will occur […] More

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    Orbital ATK Completes 7th ISS Cargo Resupply Mission

    Orbital ATK has concluded its seventh cargo delivery mission to International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The company said Sunday its Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed S.S. John Glen, also served as a platform for in-space research before the vehicle re-entered Earth’s atmosphere. S.S. John Glenn was launched atop a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V […] More

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    Navy Selects BAE, General Dynamics, MES for Submarine Trainer Production, Installation IDIQ

    The U.S. Navy has awarded three companies positions on a potential five-year, $42.6 million contract to provide support services for the military branch’s Submarine Multi-Mission Team Trainer systems. BAE Systems‘ technology solutions and services business, General Dynamics‘ mission systems segment  and services business and MES‘ simulation and training unit will compete for hardware design, fabrication, logistics and installation task orders under […] More

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    Mitre Report Offers Strategies to Build Cyber Info-Sharing Ecosystem

    Mitre has published a new report that includes multiple strategies on how public and private organizations can establish a national ecosystem to share unclassified cyber information. Bruce Bakis and Edward Wang, respectively a manager and a thought leader at Mitre, wrote in a joint article published Wednesday the “Building a National Cyber Information-Sharing Ecosystem” report contains 11 recommendations […] More

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    Hortonworks, ViON Subsidiary Partner to Offer Big Data Analytics-as-a-Service Platform

    Hortonworks and ViON‘s Ascolta subsidiary have teamed up to offer big data analytics in an appliance-like or as-a-service deployment. The joint offering integrates Ascolta’s analytics platform with the Hortonworks Data Platform to provide support for federal, state and local agencies as well as commercial organizations, Ascolta said Thursday. “As data volume dramatically increases, organizations need access to tools that allow […] More

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    3 CubeSat Challenge Winners Secure Slots on NASA’s 1st Integrated SLS, Orion Flight

    NASA has awarded three teams slots to launch their small satellites aboard the first integrated flight of the Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft dubbed Exploration Mission-1. Winners of the Cube Quest Challenge include Cislunar Explorers from Cornell University, CU-E3 from the University of Colorado and Team Miles from Tampa, Florida-based company Fluid & Reason, NASA said Friday. […] More