Lockheed Wins Marine Corps Cargo UAS Extension
Lockheed Martin has won a $6.6 million contract extension from the U.S. Defense Department to continue helping operate two K-Max unmanned aircraft systems, AviationToday.com reported Monday. Work on the project will occur through September outside the continental U.S. and at the Naval Air Systems Command’s base in Patuxent River, Md., according to the report. The [...]
SteelCloud Software Aimed To Help Pentagon Blackberry Upgrade; Brian Hajost Comments
March 7, 2013 No Comment
Herndon, Va.-based SteelCloud has released a new virtualization software aimed at helping the U.S. Defense Department transition to the new Blackberry operating system. SteelCloud’s MobileWorks for BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 is a VMware appliance intended to comply with Defense Information Systems Agency requirements for secure computer systems, SteelCloud said Tuesday. “SteelCloud brings years of experience with BlackBerry and the STIGs [...]
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In a recent $3 million Defense Department contract, CACI International and California-based technology firm AOptix will develop a biometric identification system for mobile devices. According to a Wired article, the technology is meant to allow soldiers in the field to record facial features, iris scans and other details of people up close or from a distance using commercially [...]
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DoD Approves Northrop Hawkeye Aircraft for Production; Bart LaGrone Comments
February 12, 2013 No Comment
Northrop Grumman has been given permission by the Office of the Secretary of Defense for full-rate production of its E-2D advanced hawkeye aircraft, according to a company statement. “With the Navy’s E-2D program of record at 75 aircraft, this decision by OSD enables the production of the remaining 55 aircraft over the next 10 years and provides the [...]
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SIX3 Advanced Systems to Establish Requirements for Cyber Fast Track Program
January 23, 2013 No Comment
SIX3 Advanced Systems Inc., has won a $7,035,000 contract modification to establish program requirements and milestones for the Cyber Fast Track program’s commercial agreements. The Pentagon described the program, launched by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, in a 2012 article from the American Forces Press Service. DARPA started the program in an attempt to [...]
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The U.S. Department of Defense is experiencing delays with their plan to quicken the acquisition of critical cyber tools, reports Zachary Fryer-Biggs for DefenseNews. The “993 report” is a strategy included in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011. It dissected implementation periods of chief plan components into three-month and six-month intervals succeeding the [...]
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The Pentagon has requested a cyber threat simulation program that would be able to train and assess federal cyber employees, reports NextGov. The hope is that an interactive training program gives the federal cyber workforce an opportunity to combat a threat, see how attackers exploit system vulnerabilities and take advantage of contract databases. The Department [...]
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Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary has been selected to enhance a U.S. Department of Homeland Security biometric and biographic identity management system. The U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program helps federal, state and local officials determine whether travelers can legally enter or remain in the U.S., the company said. The company will work to increase the number [...]
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