Posts from GovCon Daily for 09/30/2015

Robert Work: Cyber Deterrence a DoD Priority Under New Cyber Strategy

Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work has indicated that the Defense Department considers deterrence among its priority cybersecurity capabilities as cyber attacks become more prominent in the U.S.’ national security agenda, DoD News reported Tuesday…

Army Seeks Proposals for New Apache, Black Hawk Helicopter Engine

The U.S. Army has issued a solicitation in search of design proposals from industry for a new engine to replace General Electric-built T700-GE-701C/D engines that run on UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters, the Army website reported Tuesday…

ManTech-Hortonworks-B23 Alliance Seeks to Drive Adoption of Open Source Cyber Analytics Tech

ManTech International, Hortonworks and B23 have partnered to promote an open-source analytics technology designed to help enterprise customers detect and manage sophisticated cybersecurity threats. The OpenSOC platform is built to analyze more than a million network packets per second, recognize threats in real time and deliver computer network security alerts, Hortonworks said Tuesday Hortonworks and Cisco built the technology, which is available on Github under an Apache software license…

Orbital ATK’s Darcy McGinn Joins US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board; Mike Kahn Comments

Darcy McGinn, chief technology officer of defense electronic systems within Orbital ATK’s defense systems group, has joined the U.S. Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. McGinn will be responsible for advice to the board on technologies meant to help improve Air Force capabilities, Orbital ATK said Wednesday…

CSC Gains PaaS Security Certifications Through Partnership with Cloudera

Computer Sciences Corp. has obtained two security certifications for a Hadoop-based managed service offering intended to help organizations manage big data. CSC said Tuesday it collaborated with Cloudera to meet requirements set forth in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act…