Posts from GovCon Daily for 11/11/2015

Northrop to Support Navy’s Submarine Missile Launcher Tech Program

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a potential five-year, $198 million contract to help the U.S. Navy design, engineer and assess subsystems for an underwater tactical missile launcher platform. The Defense Department said Tuesday that Northrop will support development of a technology for the Navy to launch ballistic missiles from sea-based strategic deterrent submarines…

OPM Kicks Off Search for New Chief Info Security Officer

The Office of Personnel Management has begun its search for a new chief information security officer as part of its cybersecurity efforts, Nextgov reported Tuesday. Aliya Sternstein writes the new CISO will report directly to OPM CIO Donna Seymour and oversee the agency’s information technology security policy and security operations center…

Intelsat to Launch 1st Boeing-Built EpicNG Satellite in January; Stephen Spengler Comments

Intelsat has scheduled a launch of the first Boeing-built Intelsat EpicNG satellite aboard Arianespace‘s Ariane 5 ECA rocket for Jan. 27, 2016 to provide mobility and broadband services across the Americas and North Atlantic region…

ThreatConnect Forms Threat Intell Partnership With EnergySec; Christy Coffey Comments

ThreatConnect and nonprofit corporation Energy Sector Security Consortium have formed an alliance in an effort to protect critical energy facilities from potential cyber attacks. ThreatConnect will combine its threat intelligence platform with EnergySec’s information sharing programs and industry knowledge to improve the security of energy infrastructures against network vulnerabilities, ThreatConnect said Monday…

Tyrone Grandison to Lead Commerce Data Service, Ian Kalin Calls for More Resources

Ian Kalin, chief data officer of the Commerce Department, has said the new Commerce Data Service initiative seeks to apply the department’s data resources toward efforts to drive U.S. technological innovation and competitiveness…

Iowa State Student Team Wins Lockheed-Backed Cyber Contest; Chris Kearns Comments

A group of students from Iowa State University has won $25,000 in a cyber analysis competition that Lockheed Martin sponsored with Temple University’s Institute for Business and Information Technology…

Research and Markets: DDoS Mitigation Market to Hit $977M by 2019

A new Research and Markets report predicts the distributed denial-of-service mitigation market revenue will reach $977.2 million by 2019 from $449.5 million in 2014. Research and Markets said Monday the demand for DDoS mitigation services sustains its growth trend as organizations continue to fall prey to this kind of attack…