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BAE Systems to Provide Software and Systems Engineering Support for US Army
The U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) has selected BAE Systems to provide software and systems engineering services under an Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract. BAE Systems’ global team of experts will offer systems and software engineering support for CECOM’s Software Engineering Center (SEC). The SEC provides essential lifecycle maintenance and support to ensure interoperability [...]
DoD Official Describes Joint Information Environment
The Defense Department is working to improve its ability to share information, not just between the services, but also with its industry partners and other government agencies, the Pentagon’s deputy chief information officer for information enterprise said Sept. 28. The planned Joint Information Environment is a central piece of the information-sharing solution, Dave DeVries said. [...]
Project Gives Computers a More Powerful Way to Detect Threats
UT Dallas computer scientists have developed a technique to automatically allow one computer in a virtual network to monitor another for intrusions, viruses or anything else that could cause a computer to malfunction. The technique has been dubbed “space travel” because it sends computer data to a world outside its home, and bridges the gap [...]
Thwarting the cleverest computer attackers
In the last 10 years, cryptography researchers have demonstrated that even the most secure-seeming computer is shockingly vulnerable to attack. The time it takes a computer to store data in memory, fluctuations in its power consumption and even the noises it emits can betray information to a savvy assailant. Attacks that use such indirect sources [...]
HP Awarded US Army Contract for Enterprise Cloud Computing Services
HP Enterprise Services today announced it has been selected by the U.S. Army to provide the Department of Defense and other federal agencies with enterprise cloud computing services under the Army Private Cloud contract (APC2). . With the Department of Defense facing new technical, security and budget challenges, the new contract will help the Army [...]
General Dynamics to Support Army Private Cloud
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) has been awarded two contracts by the United States Army to develop and implement fixed and mobile cloud computing capacity for the Area Processing Centers Army Private Cloud (APC2) initiative. These five-year, multiple-award, indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contracts have a combined potential value of $249.8 million to all awardees. Under the [...]
DoD officials seek balanced cloud computing solution
Defense Department officials are looking to balance efficiency, effectiveness and security while moving away from the department’s decentralized network of computer servers and data centers and into “cloud” computing, the DOD’s deputy chief information officer said Sept. 7. “We must balance all three,” said Robert J. Carey, who is also the deputy assistant secretary of [...]
Security: Avoid Social Networking Dangers
According to recent surveys, employee social networking is growing rapidly. There are many pros and cons of employee social networking, from creating business development opportunities to wasting valuable time. In this paper you will learn how social networking is raising new challenges for enterprise security, and the distinct advantages of implementing Symantec.Cloud Web Services. They [...]
Army Enterprise e-mail moves to the Cloud, migration to begin in February
Feeling slightly intimidated by all the high tech terminology surrounding the imminent Enterprise Email migration? Although the road toward Enterprise e-mail may seem complicated, there is a clear map, leaders know where the effort is headed, and the economy sized e-mail box Soldiers have now is about to become a luxury sedan, about 40 times [...]


