Intel Agencies Want Big Data On Top of GPS, Media Data
The intelligence community is reportedly looking to use more than satellite images and traditional reports to gain insight into adversaries’ actions, according to NextGov. Amr Awadallah, CloudEra’s chief technology officer, told NextGov agencies are looking to algorithms that can search GPS reports and social media data to gain intelligence on U.S. adversaries. CloudEra supports the [...]
Lockheed Martin and Zygem Corp. Ltd. plan to release a rapid DNA analysis platform this summer to forensic, intelligence and homeland security communities. Lockheed announced the companies’ plan earlier this week to release a version of the platform. designed to simplify and speed analysis of DNA for human identity testing. The two companies said they were [...]
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A Raytheon data transfer platform, Trusted Gateway System, has been approved by the Unified Cross Domain Management Office to be on the office’s Version 4.1 Baseline list. The list contains products using cross domain technologies and solutions. These products are available to agencies in the Defense Department and the intelligence community. “Effective and secure information [...]
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CACI announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Paradigm Holdings, Inc, provider of cybersecurity and enterprise IT solutions to federal civilian agencies, the Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community. The acquisition expands the cyberspace solutions CACI offers. Major Paradigm clients include the Federal Aviation Administration, Defense Information Systems Agency and the Departments of [...]
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Kelly Collins of Fortify Software: Possible Creation of Cyber Weapon ‘Significant Concern’
February 24, 2011 No CommentPresident of Fortify Software Public Sector, an HP company, Kelly Collins has a mantra for software security: Find, fix and (from the title of her firm) fortify. For too long, software security assurance has slipped under the radar. But now, Collins said the government is beginning to move to patch up “gaping holes in security [...]
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