The Department of Defense is taking steps to improve its cyber security risk management system with a $40 million Blanket Purchase Agreement with Booz Allen Hamilton [BAH] to support the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS), the company said on Thursday.

Booz Allen will be responsible for integrating automated security solutions for eMASS and provide life-cycle development and maintenance for the cyber threat management system. Under terms of the Blanket Purchase Agreement, which was originally awarded last December, the consulting firm will fill repetitive service needs for DISA as it receives periodic call orders.booz allen logo

“We are honored to be selected as the government’s trusted partner for this important DoD cyber security mission,” Senior Vice President with Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President Brad Medairy said in a statement. “Today’s information security professionals can easily spend much of their day sorting through cyber incident alerts. New approaches, like automating incident response, are key to cyber resiliency and will enable DISA’s talented cyber warriors to shift from sorting anomalies to focusing on the most critical issues.”

The eMASS system is jointly sponsored by DISA and DoD’s Chief Information Officer and supports over 18,000 defense systems across 35 combatant commands, services and agencies. It is capable of automated generation of cyber threat reports, offering enterprise level visibility on cyber security posture, streamlined management of cyber compliance and the ability to map the results of external vendor scanning tools used on information systems.

Required DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process, Risk Management Framework and Federal Information Security Management Act reports all utilize the eMASS system.