SAIC Joins DHS Cyber Infrastructure Defense Program; John Thomas Comments
Science Applications International Corp. has become the latest company to sign up for a Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity program, where companies work with the agency to protect critical U.S. infrastructure from attacks. SAIC will serve as a commercial service provider for the Enhanced Cybersecurity Services program and develop security certifications intended to help critical [...]
Cisco to Help Build University’s Biomedical Research Cloud; Nitin Kawale Comments
May 10, 2013 No Comment
A Cisco business unit will help a university build a cloud computing infrastructure for biomedical research that intends to help facilitate collaborations between industry, academia and government. Cisco Canada will contribute $2.1 million to McMaster University, with $1.6 million targeted for a health biosystems professorship over eight years and $500,000 to fund a bioinformatics research [...]
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QinetiQ Team Bringing Analytics Tech to Govt, Commercial Markets; David Papas Comments
April 1, 2013 No Comment
QinetiQ North America is partnering with a Cray subsidiary to provide government and commercial clients with a big data appliance designed to help analyze intelligence through graphs. San Francisco-based YarcData built the uRiKA big data platform to perform pattern-based searches, find inferences and deduce data through graph-optimized hardware and a graph database, Cray said Friday. [...]
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More than a third of federal managers believe they are moving in the right direction in implementing big data within their organizations, a survey from Booz Allen Hamilton and the Government Business Council says. Booz Allen released the survey results Tuesday, saying 37 percent of respondents are confident in their current big data trajectory and [...]
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Cisco will provide its audio and video conferencing technology to Barcelona City Hall in Spain in a moved aimed at connecting citizens to public services via a remote connection. The pilot project will use Cisco TelePresence and collaboration technologies with the goal of helping citizens carry out administrative processes without visiting public offices in person, [...]
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Lockheed, Microsoft Wrap Up EPA’s Office 365 Cloud Move; Stephanie Hill Comments
March 7, 2013 No Comment
Lockheed Martin and Microsoft have finished migrating the Environmental Protection Agency to a Microsoft Office 365 collaboration and communication cloud infrastructure. More than 22,000 EPA email users are in the Office 365 for Government cloud environment, which contains email, calendars, scheduling and collaboration tools for internal and external use, the company said Thursday. Under a [...]
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TheNewNewInternet Covers How GovCon Firms Help Agencies Step Into The Cloud
February 28, 2013 No CommentFederal agencies face a mandate to seek cloud computing resources first when searching for avenues to host data and information technology resources. Through its ongoing cloud coverage, TheNewNewInternet keeps readers abreast of how GovCon firms are working with agencies to help them transition into cloud environments and new product releases aimed at helping carry out [...]
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Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is claiming it successfully brought down mock foreign surveillance drones during recent tests, Reuters reports. Citing a report from the state’s Fars news agency, Stephen Powell writes the government used hypothetical drones in the test. Powell writes that the news agency removed the word “hypothetical” from its account of the test with [...]
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In an upcoming article for the University of Maryland, University College’s Achiever Magazine, Mark Gerencser says a business today has a “new potential to enhance value across its entire product and service lines based on advanced analytics of these large, diverse, and constantly changing data sets.” The “Big Data Revolution,” as Gerencser calls it, is not only [...]
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CACI International has modified thousands of iPads for use by U.S. government leaders and security agencies amid growing demand for secure tablets. The company stripped off the tablet’s built-in wireless connection and camera and added both inventory requirements and remote data wipe features, The Inquistr reports. Each tablet also reportedly has no bluetooth connection capability [...]
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