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Cyber

DHS S&T Soliciting Proposals For Software Assurance Tools

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2015

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DHS S&T Soliciting Proposals For Software Assurance Tools

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) has issued two solicitations for software assurance tools against an existing Broad Agency Announcement focused on cyber security.Under the Static Tool Analysis Modernization Project (STAMP), S&T wants to modernize free and open-source static analysis tools that have been neglected and are currently irrelevant. The agency says that modernizing the tools will help advance and improve software analysis capabilities because these lower cost tools will make secure software more prevalent.S&T expects…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

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