The Census Bureau has tapped industry for input on the agency's 10-year plan to build its cybersecurity acquisition strategy. CB issued a request for information to leverage industry's expertise, seeking best-practice and acquisition strategy recommendations on areas most impacted by cybersecurity, Fifth Domain reported Tuesday. "The USCB intends to leverage industry knowledge and expertise on […]
The Navy has laid out a $12B investment plan for its future years defense program, an effort aimed at bolstering the service’s unmanned aircraft, surface vessels and underwater systems, Bloomberg Government revealed. With the planned investment, the Navy is supplementing its ship fleet of manned vessels with unmanned systems, which Robert Levinson, senior defense analyst […]
The Defense Innovation Unit has selected Google Cloud to develop a secure cloud management solution capable of detecting, countering and responding to cyber threats worldwide. The requested solution is envisioned to provide users within the DIU real-time network monitoring, access control and full audit trails. The solution will be grounded on the application platform Anthos, […]
Leidos has landed a $53M contract from the General Services Administration to upgrade the Army's Unmanned Aircraft System Ground Control Station – Version 4. The contract is a single-award, cost-plus-fixed-fee deal with a one-year base performance period and three one-year options, Leidos announced Thursday. "We look forward to supporting the U.S. Army's UASGCS-V4 through this […]
The National Institutes of Standards and Technology is seeking sources that can provide solutions for implementing cybersecurity standards and best practices into 5G networks. In a Federal Register post, NIST said it expects solutions that will help demonstrate how 5G infrastructure can mitigate risks and meet industry compliance requirements, Nextgov reported Tuesday. “Participating organizations will gain […]
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program has granted HackerOne a tailored low impact-software as a service authorization for its full suite of hacker-powered security solutions. With the tailored LI-SaaS authorization in tow, federal agencies can now access HackerOne’s hacker-powered security offering through the FedRAMP marketplace. The FedRAMP authorization builds on the company’s extensive work […]
The Transportation Security Administration within the Department of Homeland Security has published a roadmap indicating its intent to leverage data to detect insider threats to transportation sector personnel, operations, information, systems and critical infrastructure. The document, titled “Insider Threat Roadmap 2020,” promotes data-driven decision-making to detect threats by adopting a more efficient approach to collecting […]
A draft request for proposals from the Space Development Agency reveals its plans to launch a batch of hypersonic weapon-tracking satellites into orbit in fiscal year 2022. According to the RFP, SDA is looking for a source that can design and build eight wide field of view satellites equipped with infrared sensors for tracking hypersonic weapons, C4ISRNET reported. The […]
The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas system has approved funding for the creation of a new hypersonic weapons test center for the Army Futures Command. Texas A&M's board of regents allowed the university to spend $79.3M for the construction of the Bush Combat Development Center. The state of Texas approved $50M while the Army will […]
VMD has secured a spot on the General Services Administration’s Highly Adaptive Cybersecurity Services Special Item Number contract, making it eligible to compete for cybersecurity services under the agency’s IT Schedule 70. The company passed the GSA’s technical evaluation for the HACS SIN’s key sub-categories, such as high-value asset assessments, risk and vulnerability assessment, cyber […]
