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  • in Industry News, News

    NASA Seeks Feedback on SBIR/STTR Solicitations and Ideas for Future R&D Program Subtopics

    NASA has issued a request for information to solicit input on current solicitations and potential future subtopics of an agency program that offers federal research and development funding opportunities for small businesses. The space agency said Tuesday it will gather and use feedback from the Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer program RFI to create strategies that will help […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    Sera-Brynn Tallies 91% Cyber Services Growth in 2016 on DoD Contractor Community Requests

    Suffolk, Virginia-based audit and advisory firm Sera-Brynn has recorded a 91 percent compound annual growth rate for cybersecurity services in 2016 following a surge of requests from the Defense Department contractor community. Sera-Brynn said Sunday that Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement-imposed security requirements and a growing number of cyber-attack against defense-related businesses and organizations impacted […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    Huntington Ingalls Division Lifts 776-Ton Unit of Kennedy Carrier Under Construction

    Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Newport News Shipbuilding division has carried a 776-ton unit into Dry Dock 12 as part of construction work on the second Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier for the U.S. Navy. The company said Monday the superlift for the John F. Kennedy aircraft carrier follows a build strategy implemented on the development of a previous Ford-class […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    DARPA Taps Flex Logix to Deliver Embedded Field-Programmable Gate Array Tech for Integrated Circuit Design

    Flex Logix has inked an agreement with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the EFLX embedded field-programmable gate array technology for use by agencies and companies to design integrated circuits for the U.S. government. The company said Monday it will offer EFLX arrays in the TSMC 16FFC process node to help users reconfigure register-transfer levels during the digital […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    IARPA Seeks Methods to Collect Low-Resource Speech, Text Content

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has asked industry to propose methods to find speech and text content in low-resource languages relevant to domain-contextualized English queries. IARPA said Thursday in a FedBizOpps notice the Machine Translation for English Retrieval of Information in Any Language program seeks an end-to-end system that can support monolingual triage of multilingual datasets. The agency added it wants […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    AFRL Awards SBIR Phase II Funds to Galois for Cyber Deception Tech Devt

    Galois has secured a $750,000 grant from the Air Force Research Laboratory to support the development of a cyber deception technology that will look to mislead potential attackers that monitor network activities. The company said Thursday it received the funds under Phase II of a Small Business Innovation Research program effort for the Prattle cyber deception technology. Prattle […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Report Predicts US Govt, Military Satellite Market CAGR of 3.6% Through 2022

    A Frost & Sullivan report, released by Research and Markets, forecasts the U.S. government and military satellite market will reach an average of $53.78 million in value at a compound annual growth rate of 3.6 percent over the next five years. Research and Markets said Friday the U.S. government accounted for approximately $1.34 billion of the overall global spending on commercial satellite […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni: Presidential Inauguration Can Present Cyber, Physical Security Challenges

    SAP National Security Services CEO Mark Testoni has said he believes the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president can present a three-fold challenge to authorities as they work to ensure both physical and cyber security, Fox News reported Thursday. Testoni told Fox News in an email that authorities have responsibilities to protect the physical location of the inauguration, track protest […] More

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    eGlobalTech Added to Amazon Web Services’ Public Sector Partner Program

    Amazon Web Services has selected eGlobalTech to join the former’s partnership program that aims to meet the technology business needs of education, government and non-profit customers. EGlobalTech said Thursday its DevOps Factory service offering and automation tools such as Cloudamatic will support efforts to boost cloud adoption in the federal sector through the AWS Public Sector […] More

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    TechServe Alliance: 2016 IT and Engineering Employment Rises Year-Over-Year

    A new study from the TechServe Alliance estimates the number of information technology and engineering jobs increased at respective year-to-year growth rates of 2.4 percent and 0.7 percent. The TechServe Alliance report published Wednesday says IT jobs have grown to 5,179,300 in December 2016 to represent an addition of 122,900 IT workers from the previous year’s final tally. Engineering employment has also […] More

  • in Mobility, News

    Lookout’s Mobile Endpoint Security Tech Earns FedRAMP Ready Status; Bob Stevens Comments

    A Lookout-built mobile endpoint security platform has obtained a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program designation that reflects the product’s capacity to meet technical cloud adoption requirements in the government. Lookout Mobile Endpoint Security has been listed on the FedRAMP marketplace for federal agencies and government contractors as the first mobile security system to receive the “FedRAMP Ready” status, […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News

    Dell Technologies Subsidiary’s GRC Platform Earns Common Criteria EAL 2+ Certification

    Dell Technologies‘ RSA subsidiary has secured a Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ certification for its governance, risk management and compliance platform through an evaluation by Leidos’ Common Criteria Testing Laboratory. RSA said Monday release 6.1 of its Archer GRC platform is designed to help organizations mitigate business risks across multiple domains. The company noted that the EAL […] More