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Vendors keep up pressure on JEDI strategy
Several companies are coordinating their options to pressure DOD to back away from its single-award strategy for its massive JEDI cloud computing initiative.
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DISA looks into CAC options
The Defense Information Systems Agency is testing mobile phones with new chipsets that use a person's physical behaviors for identification.
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Increased defense spending brightens Booz's prospects
As Defense agencies focus on improving services and boosting internal controls after security breaches, Booz Allen Hamilton sees its backlog and revenue growing.
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DOD CIO takes control of cloud initiatives
Defense Department CIO Dana Deasy's strategy aims to gradually consolidate networks, data centers and cloud efforts, allowing for better infrastructure security and reliability, while saving money.
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DOD's cloud strategy illustrates need for outside innovation
The Defense Department is now looking to the likes of Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google and others for advances in cloud technology.
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DISA modernizing clearance process with continuous monitoring
By continuously vetting cleared personnel, the Defense Information Systems Agency hopes to virtually eliminate the reinvestigation process and reduce the backlog.
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AF sees aircraft maintenance via augmented reality
To make aircraft maintenance more efficient, the Air Force Research Laboratory is considering projecting scaled visualizations of the task onto the machinery being serviced.
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Reorg puts DOD in charge of clearances
Under the Trump administration's reorganization plan, the Pentagon would become the central hub for security clearance authority in the federal government.
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8 win Army training services awards
The Army has award eight companies spots on a $2.4 billion contract to provide and manage training and training assistance services to the Army.
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ICF wins $50M AF cyber advisory order
Under this order, the company will work with Air Combat Command to take on responsibility for the branch's cyberspace core function currently run by Air Force Space Command.
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Data analytics will fuel the future of military readiness
As DOD modernizes, making better use of its vast data stores is essential.
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Los Alamos deploys drone defenses
The counter-UAS technology is designed to protect a no-drone zone around the lab, which conducts nuclear weapons research.
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Coast Guard awards $117M drone contract
Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary wins a five-year, $117 million contract to help deploy small unmanned aircraft across the Coast Guard's fleet of National Security Cutter ships.
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JEDI's disruption could extend far beyond cloud
The Defense Department's JEDI initiative is part of a continuum of how innovation has shifted away from the government and to the commercial sector and the implications are only growing.
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DISA awards $7.5B SETI contract
Fourteen companies won places on the full-and-open piece of the Systems Engineering, Technology and Innovation contract vehicle.
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OTA comes under increased scrutiny
Lawmakers join the Government Accountability Office in asserting greater oversight and review over "other transaction authority" awards.
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Defense bill could tackle clearance backlog
Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner proposed new cost transparency and processing goals to reform the federal security clearance process.
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13 cyber provisions in the FY19 NDAA
The Senate released its text and report for the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act. Take a look at a few of the biggest cyber provisions that could make it through final passage.
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Navy picks six for $240M ISR services contract
Six companies win places on a $240.4 million contract vehicle to perform engineering support services for Navy intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms.
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