RELM Wireless Named Supplier Under Tactical Communications Contract
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] RELM Wireless has been named as a supplier under the Tactical Communications (TacCom) contract issued by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). RELM is one of three...
View ArticleMcAfee Wins Multi-Year DHS Deal
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] McAfee has won a multi-year Enterprise Level Agreement contract from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with a potential value of up to $12 million. Under the deal, McAfee...
View ArticleFedEx Trade Networks Completes ACE Migration
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] FedEx Trade Networks, the freight forwarding and customs brokerage arm of shipping giant FedEx, has enabled ACE (Automated Commercial Environment) entry summary filing at all U.S....
View ArticleE3 Federal Solutions Wins 2nd DHS TABSS IDIQ
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] E3 Federal Solutions (E3) was awarded a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Technical and Business Support Services (TABSS) indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ)...
View ArticleHP Gets $220.5 Million USCIS Task Order
[Techtaffy Newsdesk] HP Enterprise Services has been awarded a task order valued at up to $220.5 million by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), a Department of Homeland Security...
View ArticleNorthrop Grumman Signs Critical Assets Cyber Security MoU
Northrop Grumman has signed a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to enable the expansion of cyber security protections for critical infrastructure. Northrop Grumman...
View ArticleWhite House Hires McAfee Public Sector CTO For Key Security Post
Dr. Phyllis Schneck, McAfee’s chief technology officer for public sector, was appointed to the position of Deputy Undersecretary for Cyber Security at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Dr....
View ArticleIBM Providing Continuous Monitoring As A Service To DHS
IBM services offering will be part of the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) program, says the company. The CDM Program will provide specialized...
View ArticleFour Schools Join National Security Agency Cyber Operations Program
Four schools have been selected for the National Security Agency’s National Centers of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations Program, which was designed to cultivate more U.S. cyber professionals....
View ArticleU.S. Government May Have Spent $321M On Duplicate IT Projects
A Government Accountability Office (GAO) study reveals the government may spent $321 million on potentially duplicate IT projects. Federal agencies currently report spending more than $82 billion...
View ArticleU.S. Coast Guard Creating Central Information Repository
The United States Coast Guard Investigative Service (CGIS), an agency of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security, is working on a central repository for sharing and storing law...
View ArticleNorthrop Grumman Awarded $350M US-CERT Contract
Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to provide operational services to the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT). This single...
View ArticleHP Awarded $32.4M Security Contract
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded HP a cyber-security contract worth up to $32.4 million, under the DHS Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM) government-wide Blanket...
View ArticleCenturyLink Awarded DHS IDIQ Cybersecurity EINSTEIN Task Order
CenturyLink was awarded a task order from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Cybersecurity and Communications to provide intrusion prevention security services, known as EINSTEIN 3...
View ArticleDHS Using CyberPoint Solution For Supply Chain Pilot Project
CyberPoint has been awarded a fixed price contract by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Borders and Maritime Security Division (BMD) to participate in the Container Security Device Technology...
View ArticleDepartment of Homeland Security launches information marketplace for cyber...
The Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Cyber Security Division (CSD) has created the Information Marketplace for Policy and Analysis of Cyber-risk & Trust...
View ArticleEGlobalTech wins DHS infrastructure support services contract
EGlobalTech, a provider in innovative IT solutions and consulting services for the Federal Government, received an award from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of the Chief Information...
View ArticleMaersk, IBM partnering on blockchain-based supply chain solution
IBM and Maersk are collaborating to work on a joint blockchain technology solution for the shipping and logistics industry. The companies have built a blockchain solution based on the open source Linux...
View ArticleDHS awards $8.6 million for five mobile application security R&D projects
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded funding to five research and development (R&D) projects that are expected to enhance the secure...
View ArticleWidePoint awarded $9.3M task order by ICE
WidePoint, a provider of technology-based management solutions, was awarded an Option Year 2 task order modification for cellular wireless managed services by United States Immigration and Customs...
View ArticleDepartment of Homeland Security awards Digital Bazaar blockchain contract
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) has awarded a $749,241 Small Business Innovation Program (SBIR) contract to Digital Bazaar to develop...
View ArticleFormer Secret Service agent sentenced in bitcoin money laundering scheme
A former U.S. Secret Service Special Agent, who had been a member of the Baltimore Silk Road Task Force, was sentenced to prison on charges of money laundering, according to a statement from the...
View ArticleWidePoint awarded $4.4 million USCIS task order for wireless managed services
WidePoint will deliver cellular wireless managed services to USCIS through the DHS CWMS BPA. The post WidePoint awarded $4.4 million USCIS task order for wireless managed services appeared first on...
View ArticleCGI wins place on $50 billion GSA Alliant 2 GWAC contract
CGI has been awarded a place on the Alliant 2 Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) Government-Wide Acquisition Contract by the General Services Administration. The post CGI wins place on $50...
View ArticleAuto-ISAC signs cybersecurity agreement with DHS
The Auto-ISAC said in a statement that it has signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to collaborate. The post Auto-ISAC...
View ArticleHomeland Security to compile database of journalists, bloggers — Bloomberg Law
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security wants to monitor hundreds of thousands of news sources around the world and compile a database, writes Cary O’Reilly of Bloomberg Law. Here is the link:...
View ArticleMercury Systems receives $3.8 million order for millimeter wave transceiver...
Defence contractor Mercury Systems has received a $3.8 million order from an electronics manufacturing services provider for millimeter wave transceiver subsystems integrated into a homeland security...
View ArticleMerlin wins $200 million DHS enterprise-wide IT contracts
Merlin has won enterprise-wide technology contracts from the Department of Homeland Security, specifically within the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the Transportation Security Agency, and from...
View ArticleExcella awarded blanket purchase agreement for providing agile coaching to DHS
Excella was awarded a blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to provide agile coaching to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for the implementation of web-based applications. The post Excella awarded...
View ArticleDHS awards Factom $192k for blockchain tech
The Department of Homeland Security has awarded $192,380 to Factom to begin beta testing of a capability that uses blockchain technology to secure IoT data. The post DHS awards Factom $192k for...
View ArticleDHS awards Booz Allen Hamilton $1.03B cybersecurity task order
The Department of Homeland Security have selected Booz Allen Hamilton as prime contractor under the government-wide CDM DEFEND program for Group D, with a $1.03 billion task order. The post DHS awards...
View ArticleWidePoint awarded $1.5M BPA task order by the Department of Homeland Security
WidePoint, a provider of Trusted Mobility Management (TM2), was awarded a new BPA task order by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The post WidePoint awarded $1.5M BPA task order by the...
View ArticleDepartment of Homeland Security awards $11.6M in contracts for...
Five research organizations were awarded separate contracts totaling $11.6 million to develop new methods to identify and attribute Network/Internet-scale Disruptive Events (NIDEs) by the Department of...
View ArticleHomeland Security will let computers predict who might be a terrorist on your...
The Department of Homeland Security is now complicating the picture further by paying a private Virginia firm to build a software algorithm with the power to flag you as someone who might try to blow...
View ArticleDHS: Multiple US gov domains hit in serious DNS hijacking wave — Ars Technica
The Department of Homeland Security has issued an emergency directive ordering administrators of most federal agencies to protect their Internet domains, writes Dan Goodin. Here is the link:...
View ArticleCGI awarded $267M Homeland Security contract
CGI has been awarded a six-year, $267 million task order to provide cybersecurity consulting services under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation (CDM)...
View ArticleHow Google and Facebook’s 8,000-mile undersea data cable got caught in...
Team Telecom, a government working committee with representatives from the U.S. Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Defense, recommended that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)...
View ArticleDepartment of Homeland Security awards Maxar $23M analytics system contract
Maxar Technologies was selected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop an analytics system for characterizing and tracking the behavior of vehicles in multiple domains at scale...
View ArticleNTT DATA awarded $17.5M DHS network administration and app support services...
NTT DATA Services Federal Government, a public sector subsidiary of NTT DATA Services, has been awarded a five-year $17.5 million task order under its GSA Alliant 2 contract by the U. S. Department of...
View ArticleDHS awards Synthetik $1M to develop ML training data for airport security...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as part of its Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program, has awarded Austin, Texas-based Synthetik funding to develop machine learning training data...
View ArticleAccenture Federal Services wins $112M DHS cybersecurity task order
Accenture Federal Services (AFS), a subsidiary of Accenture, has been awarded a $112 million prime task order by the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency...
View ArticleThe US government just launched a big push to fill cybersecurity jobs, with...
The DHS’s new recruitment system, dubbed the Cybersecurity Talent Management System (CTMS), launches amid a tight labor market for cybersecurity professionals, writes Liam Tung. Here is the link:...
View ArticleMythics awarded 20-year Oracle contract by DHS at $3B ceiling value
Mythics, an Oracle Service and Sell Partner, was awarded a multiple-award indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Enterprise Financial Management Software...
View ArticleAccenture wins $199M TSA IT services contract
Accenture Federal Services (AFS), a subsidiary of Accenture, has been awarded a $199 million contract from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), to...
View ArticleJanuary 6 panel examines whether erased Secret Service texts can be revived —...
The House committee investigating the Capitol attack is examining whether Secret Service text messages from 5 and 6 January 2021 that were erased around the time of an internal review can be...
View ArticleDocuments show DHS tracks smartphones across the country — Motherboard
Recently released documents show in new detail how parts of the Department of Homeland Security have been using surveillance tools built on smartphone location data, writes Joseph Cox. Here is the...
View ArticleGeneral Dynamics bags $580M DHS cybersecurity and services contract
General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics, was awarded two contracts valued at $580 million. The post General Dynamics bags $580M DHS cybersecurity and...
View ArticleDHS awards BlackBerry seven-year contract for personnel emergency...
The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has granted BlackBerry a seven-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. The post DHS awards BlackBerry seven-year contract...
View ArticleSeeTrue AI signs a CRADA with DHS for threat detection at security checkpoints
The Cooperative Research & Development Agreement (CRADA) between SeeTrue and the DHS stipulates that the AI solution will undergo a rigorous evaluation at DHS and TSA labs. The post SeeTrue AI...
View ArticleBiden signs first-ever executive order on AI safety and security
President Biden has issued an Executive Order focused on the responsible development and application of artificial intelligence (AI). The post Biden signs first-ever executive order on AI safety and...
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