Thales Communications Inc. has received up to $40,000,500 contract modification from the Defense Logistics Agency to deliver radio system components to federal civilian agencies. The Defense Department announced Monday that the modification will provide additional 34 DLA-managed National Stock Numbered items to the contract. Thales Communications expects to complete deliveries by August 26, 2016. The [...]
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Terremark Federal Group Inc. has won a $9 million contract modification to perform cloud-computing services for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Department of Defense said the modification will allow Terremark to provide cloud-based computing, infrastructure, data and analytical support under two General Services Administration Special Item Numbers. 75 percent of the work under [...]
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The Defense Information Systems Agency has approved six new Blackberry models for the Army and Pentagon employees, Nicholas Hoover of InformationWeek reports. Two touchscreen models, three touchscreen and keyboard models, a keyboard model, Blackberry’s enterprise server and two smart card readers are now eligible to access military networks. This announcement comes shortly after the release [...]
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The Defense Department wants biomedical technology that can stop burn scar formation in the event of deep tissue injuries, Nextgov reports. According to a small business solicitation notice, nearly 450,000 burn injuries require medical attention in the U.S. each year. Burn injuries are the cause of five to 10 percent of combat casualties that do [...]
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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Director Regina Dugan is set to leave the agency for the Internet company Google within the next few weeks. Wired broke the story Monday and has since stepped back to take a look at the company’s connections with the current White House administration. While Google is connected with the Defense Department [...]
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The Air Force has moved forward with plans to provide its aircrews with tablets as it awarded a $9.36 million contract for 18,000 iPads Thursday, Bloomberg reports. The Air Force awarded the contract to Phoenix-based Executive Technology Inc. in one of the largest military tablet procurements, according to Bloomberg. The Air Force is following commercial airlines’ lead and practice using [...]
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In the cybersecurity realm, malicious software is not blacklisted unless it is first labeled as malicious. However, the National Security Agency has plans to use a program where software is blocked unless it is approved by a systems administrator or “whitelisted,” NextGov reports. This would shift the focus on securing computers using a flagging system, [...]
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The Defense Information Systems Agency expects to issue security guidelines in August covering both Google‘s Android operating system and Apple‘s iOS, a lead DISA official told NextGov. Mark Orndorff, DISA’s program executive officer for mission assurance network operations, said the guidelines will address security concerns that currently bar the use of commercial devices on the Pentagon’s [...]
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