Posts from GovConDaily for 03/14/2016

CloseWatch Raises Funds for Crime Alert Mobile App; Mike Malcolm Comments

CloseWatch has secured $1.49 million in a seed funding round from ECAP Holdings and a group of angel investors to further develop an analytics-based mobile application designed to help citizens report crimes to law enforcement agencies…

OFPP Eyes Improved Digital Acquisition Process With Pilot Program

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy has unveiled a pilot program that seeks to improve the acquisition of digital and technology platforms through skills development among digital acquisitions teams at government agencies…

System High Corp. Lands $21M Option for DARPA Security, Intell Support Program

System High Corp. has received a $21.03 million contract modification to support the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s security and intelligence directorate. DARPA awarded the fourth option to the base contract that brings the total cumulative value to$97,630,625…

Lt. Gen. John Murray: Army to Think Beyond NDAA for Acquisition Reform

The U.S. Army wants to implement programs beyond what the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act calls for to reform procurement, requirements determination and budgeting systems across the military service, Defense News reported Thursday…

Bold Capital Partners Invests in Security Network Company BlueLine Grid

Security collaboration platform BlueLine Grid has received an additional round of investment funds from equity firm Bold Capital Partners for an undisclosed sum. BlueLine Grid said Friday the funding from Bold Capital Partners follows investments from Motorola Solutions in December 2015 and intelligence community venture capital firm In-Q-Tel in May 2015…

Gen. Paul Selva: US Military Needs 3rd Offset Strategy to Counter Adversaries’ Threats

Gen. Paul Selva, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has said the U.S. military needs to apply the Defense Department’s Third Offset Strategy toward efforts to counter threats posed by Russia, China and other potential adversaries, DoD reported Sunday…

UltiSat to Offer Bandwidth Support for Pacific Command’s Global Hawk UAVs

UltiSat has been awarded a potential $4.1 million task order to provide Ku-frequency bandwidth support for the U.S. Pacific Command‘s fleet of Northrop Grumman-built Global Hawk unmanned air vehicles…