Posts from GovConDaily for 03/18/2016

Army Eyes Improved Cybersecurity Posture With Network Screening Tool; Col. Ward Roberts Comments

The U.S. Army has deployed a new tool that works to help users screen the service branch’s network infrastructure for vulnerabilities and implement patches to protect the networks from potential cyber attacks, GCN reported Thursday…

Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch: Air Force Might Take a Month to Decide on Huey Helicopter Procurement Program

Lt. Gen. Arnold Bunch, military deputy to the assistant Air Force secretary for acquisition, has said the service branch has not made a decision on whether to award a sole-source contract to replace 25 of its UH-1N Huey helicopters, Breaking Defense reported Thursday…

Raytheon Lands $573M Contract Modification from Air Force for AMRAAM Production and System Items

Raytheon has landed a $573 million contract modification from the U.S. Air Force for Advanced Medium Range Air to Air Missiles production and system items. The award will exercise options for lot 30 of AMRAAM and related items, Defense Department said Wednesday…

Elbit Systems of America Unveils Cloud-based Public Safety Applications Suite

Elbit Systems of America has launched WideBridge Cloud applications suite, a system of cloud-based public safety broadband communications services. The Elbit Systems subsidiary said Friday the suite is designed to give first responders access to broadband communication tools that allow real-time voice, video and data services through P25 Land Mobile Radio and LTE devices…

NASA, BSEE Forge Partnership to Address Offshore Operations Risks

NASA and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement have entered an agreement that seeks to employ the aeronautics industry’s risk management practices in offshore operations in the Outer Continental Shelf…

Siemens Unveils 3 Cybersecurity Ops Centers for Industrial Facility Protection

Siemens has unveiled three Cyber Security Operations Centers located in Milford, Ohio, in the U.S. and in Lisbon, Portugal, and Munich, Germany, for industrial facilities protection. The CSOCs will house industry security specialists tasked to monitor facilities around the globe for cyber threats, send out warnings to companies regarding incidents and coordinate possible countermeasures, Siemens said Thursday…

Virginia Tech’s Randy Marchany: Federal Gov’t Tends to Label Some Cyber Threat Data ‘Classified’

Randy Marchany, chief information security officer at Virginia Tech, has said the federal government has a propensity to restrict the sharing of some cyber threat data and ongoing breach campaigns, Nextgov reported Wednesday…

NGA’s Robert Cardillo: Data Sharing Can Help Protect Space Assets

Robert Cardillo, director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, believes information sharing efforts can help bolster the security of space assets, DoD News reported Thursday. Jim Garamone writes Cardillo noted the Joint Interagency Space Operations Center’s role in facilitating information sharing during a hearing before the House Armed Service Committee’s strategic forces subcommittee…