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    Booz Allen Unveils Cyber Defense Tool Suite for Cloud-Based Data, Apps; Chris Christou Comments

    Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a set of security platforms designed to help government agencies and companies protect data workloads and applications in cloud environments from potential cyber attacks. The company’s Virtual Cloud Defense consists of open source-based, commercial-off-the-shelf platforms that work to help users implement security controls and perform situational awareness operations, Booz Allen […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Lpath Receives DoD Grant to Study Potential Traumatic Brain Injury Pain Treatment

    California-based biotechnology firm Lpath has secured a two-year, $1.45 million grant from the Defense Department to examine the use of a monoclonal antibody drug as a potential treatment for neuropathic pain associated with traumatic brain injury. Lpath said Monday it will conduct preclinical studies to assess the effect of the company’s experimental drug Lpathomab on pain that follows neurotrauma as the company seeks to validate the findings […] More

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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Space Resiliency Requires Public-Private Collaboration

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has said she believes that government and commercial organizations should collaborate to build resilient space systems. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a blog post published Monday that U.S. government officials and lawmakers continue to increase their commitment to a satellite service model that seeks to increase military satellite communications and boost resiliency […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    DLA Taps CACI for Electronic Document Processing, Storage System Services

    The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency has awarded CACI International a three-year, $40 million contract to help manage two platforms the Defense Department uses to eliminate paper from the receipt, acceptance, invoice and payment steps in contracting lifecycles. and systems. DoD’s Wide Area Workflow e-Business Suite is designed to process contracting documents via web-based applications and the Electronic Document Access system stores the Pentagon’s procurement instruments and related items, CACI […] More

  • in News

    LMI Defense Sector Lead Mary Margaret Evans Named to NDIA Board of Trustees

    Mary Margaret Evans, vice president of business development for the defense sector at LMI, has been appointed to the National Defense Industrial Association’s board of trustees. LMI said Monday Evans will bring her defense industry and acquisition reform experience to her role at NDIA. NDIA aims to promote the development of weapons systems, technology platforms, training […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    DARPA Seeks Research Proposals for Miniaturized Magnetic Component Devt Program

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation to gather research proposals for a potential five-year, $26 million program that aims to build miniaturized magnetic components for integration with electromagnetic systems used by the Defense Department. DARPA’s Magnetic Miniaturized and Monolithically Integrated Components program will focus on three technical areas, according to a broad agency announcement posted Thursday on FedBizOpps. Those […] More

  • in News, Products & Service

    eGlobalTech to Provide Infrastructure Support to DHS Information Technology Services Office

    The Department of Homeland Security has awarded eGlobalTech a contract to provide infrastructure support services to the information technology services office under the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer. The company will provide systems planning, management, deployment and maintenance in support of the ITSO mission, eGT said Tuesday. eGT is a woman-owned management consulting and IT services provider […] More

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    Nimbis Services Secures Phase III SBIR Contract From USAF for R&D Support

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded a $9 million Small Business Innovation Research phase 3 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Nimbis Services for continued research and development services on a cloud-based Defense Department silicon integrated circuit design environment. DoD said Thursday Air Force Research Laboratory will obligate $749,468 from fiscal 2015 research, development, test and evaluation funds for the first cost-plus-fixed-fee task order in the sole-source IDIQ […] More

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    Pentagon Clears Interactive Intelligence Group’s Updated Customer Engagement Platform

    Interactive Intelligence Group has earned certification from the Joint Interoperability Test Command for a new version of the company’s open standards-based software suite for customer service management. Version 2016 R2 of the Customer Interaction Center is now included on the Defense Department‘s approved product list, Interactive Intelligence Group said Thursday. The list contains the names of vendors that have […] More

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    Rockwell Collins to Supply Parts, Equipment for Navy Electronic Warfare System

    Rockwell Collins has received a $24.9 million cost-plus-fixed-fee indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract from the U.S. Navy to provide various equipment for the AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid Tiger Electronic Attack System. Rockwell Collins will deliver roughly 194 Quint Networking Technology radios and 379 hardware parts and perform 36,482 hours of incidental equipment modification services for the precision pods, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The […] More

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    Navy Taps Toyon Research Corp. to Provide Electronic Warfare Hardware, Engineering Services

    The U.S. Navy has awarded Toyon Research Corp. a potential five-year, $22.8 million contract to provide to produce AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid  Tiger II pod system hardware. Toyon will also provide AN/ALQ-231 incidental engineering and modification services for electronic warfare and attack communications jamming airborne and ground-based systems and laboratories, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division obligated […] More

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    Alion to Support DISA’s Spectrum Mgmt Operations Under $137M IDIQ; Sean Pender Comments

    Alion Science and Technology will help a Defense Information Systems Agency  organization explore tools for spectrum management through the company’s position on a potential $137 million contract DISA awarded in May. Alion is one of eight vendors that will compete for task orders to provide electromagnetic spectrum engineering, technical services, planning, analysis and advocacy support to DISA’s Defense Spectrum Organization under the five-year contract, Alion […] More