The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Accreditation Body is seeking proposals for a continuous monitoring solution in the form of a portal that would address gaps between the triennial assessments of defense contractors. As specified in a request for proposals, the solution will be used to conduct pre-assessment background research and monitor companies between formal assessments. Interested […]
Coalfire has landed a $2M task order to provide cybersecurity and risk management support services to the Social Security Administration. The five-year task, funded by the SSA Office of Acquisition and Grants, calls for the provision of advanced malware and analytics. Coalfire was the lone bidder for the task, which was awarded on the Cybersecurity […]
The Navy has tapped the Undersea Technology Innovation Consortium to upgrade the military's underwater systems by advancing 15 technological areas. The consortium, which is composed of large and small businesses, nonprofits and academia, will have exclusive access to the requirements for each area, Nextgov reported Wednesday. In a SAM .gov post, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded BAE Systems a contract for the development of machine learning analytics as a service. The solution is expected to be a unique cloud-based model that would provide the government with an automated service that uses commercial and open-source data to deliver constant global situational awareness necessary for […]
Oracle announced that its Cloud Infrastructure-Government offering has achieved Federal Risk and Authorization Program High Authorization. The service previously achieved the Defense Information System Agency's Impact Level 5 provisional authorization. With both authorizations, Oracle may now support the government's and military's most stringent security requirements for unclassified workloads, said Scott Twaddle, Oracle's vice president of […]
Crystal Group has secured a National Information Assurance Partnership Common Criteria certification for its RCS5516FW purpose-built, virtual private network-capable firewall. The certification validates the effectiveness of the firewall’s layered protection for networked communications in multiple harsh domains. With its rugged form factor design, the firewall offers cybersecurity defense needed to promote seamless, high-performance networking even […]
The U.S. Special Operations Command has issued a request for information in search of sources capable of serving as its Counter Unmanned Systems, Systems Integration Partner. Specifically, the USSOCOM seeks white papers detailing the capability of sources to satisfy the responsibilities of a CUxS SIP. Sources should prove that they can integrate a family of […]
The Air Force has awarded engineering startup MSBAI a Phase 1 research contract to integrate its GURU technology into military applications. Under the AFWERX Small Business Innovation Research contract, MSBAI shall use its artificial intelligence-powered solution to help operators translate engineering workflows into computational workflows, the company announced. GURU was created to let engineers more […]
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Institute of Science and Technology have launched the Text Retrieval Conference COVID program with the goal of developing artificial intelligence technologies for the analysis of a new dataset of machine-readable coronavirus scholarly literature. NIST and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy […]
The U.S. Air Force has tentatively awarded Orbital Insight a Small Business Innovation Research Phase II Contract to provide support services to the AFVentures Strategic Financing group. Under the terms of the contract, Orbital Insight will detect worldwide anomalies using analytics powered by artificial intelligence and geospatial data sources, including satellite imagery, synthetic-aperture radar, automatic […]
