L-3 Wins $82 Million Contract from Navy for C4 Engineering

The U.S. Navy has awarded L-3 Services a potential $82 million indefinite delivery and quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for engineering and technical support services for command, control, communications and computer exercise planning.

Under the contract, L-3 will provide integration, systems integration, operational systems, training, logistics, software engineering, quality assurance and life-cycle sustainment management support.

L-3 will perform work in Fayetteville, N.C.,…

Gartner Puts McAfee in the Leaders Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection

Gartner, Inc. placed McAfee in the Leaders Quadrant of the ”Magic Quadrant for Mobile Data Protection.”

Gartner’s report evaluates 14 vendors offering mobile data protection products and chooses leaders based on products that work for Garnet clients in both small and large deployments. The ability to execute a full vision and to make competitors nervous are key indicators…

McAfee Providing Anti-Theft Solution for Ultrabooks

McAfee and Intel are collaborating to develop anti-theft software for Ultrabook devices leveraging unique, Intel chip-level technologies providing device and data protection for consumers.

With users increasing mobility and the rapid growing numbers of laptops and mobile computing devices purchases, the risk of theft and loss is increasing too. This solution will provide device lock, data wipe…

URS Provides US Government Cloud Computing; Randall Wotring Comments

URS Corporation’s URS Apptis obtained Authority to Operate for its FedCloud.com service portal to the U.S. Government allowing government agencies to easily purchase cloud computing infrastructure using a Blanket Purchase Agreement for IaaS from GSA.

URS was granted the ATO after FedCloud.com met government security requirements and completed the Assessment and Authorization process in…

Heidi Klum Tops McAfee’s Most Dangerous List in Cyberspace

A search for Heidi Klum could land users with a malware-ridden computer according to McAfee research.

For the fifth consecutive year, McAfee researched popular culture’s most famous people revealing the riskiest celebrities on the Web. The McAfee Most Dangerous Celebrities study found movie stars and models to be more dangerous while singers and sports stars are among the safest….

Verizon and Trilliant Deliver Next-Generation Public Network Smart Metering

Verizon Wireless and Trilliant announced Trilliant’s next-generation CellReader has been certified as compatible with the Verizon Wireless network. 

The CellReader “under-the-glass” communications module on Verizon’s network gives utilities easily deployed two-way AMI solutions that allow scheduled and on-demand access to all meter data. CellReader modules can integrated into existing meters.

Trilliant’s CellReader employs the ANSI C12.22 standard for data…

Intel and Google to Optimize Android for Intel’s Atom

Intel Corporation and Google Inc. will work to enable and optimize future versions of Android for Intel’s lower power Atom processors allowing future versions of Android to support Intel technology.

This joint effort should speed time-to-market of Intel technology for Android smartphones and enable mobile device OEMs and wireless operators to draw upon the performance capabilities of…

Pitney Bowes Signs Multiple Alliance Agreements to Provide Volly Secure Digital Delivery Services

Pitney Bowes Inc. has signed eighteen strategic alliance agreements with lard third-party mailers for the Volly secure digital delivery service.

The signed agreements are with large volume mailers that represent over 1,800 brands. Financial Statement Services, Inc. and Superior Mailing Services are both third-party mailers that signed agreements with Pitney Bowes. 

“The Volly secure digital delivery service builds…

Iron Mountain Among Most Innovative Users of Technology; Tasos Tsolakis Comments

Iron Mountain Incorporated is ranked 47th on the 2011 InformationWeek 500, a list of the top technology innovators in the U.S., as a result of a project to improve the performance of its North American truck fleet.

We’re honored to be ranked in the InformationWeek 500 for the ninth consecutive year and thrilled to be recognized in the top 100,” said…

Deloitte Survey on IT Executives: What Type of CIO Are You?

A new Deloitte survey of information technology executives in the United States shows that the role of the chief information officer is shifting. 

The poll, conducted during Deloitte’s Dbriefs Technology Executive series: “CIOs as Revolutionaries: A Step Change in the Business-IT Relationship,” showed that 45 percent of nearly 1,000 IT executives think their own CIO is viewed…