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Cyber

Enlighten IT Consulting Wins $40 Million Defense Department Task Order For Development Of Data Platform

Wednesday, November 30th, 2016

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Enlighten IT Consulting Wins $40 Million Defense Department Task Order For Development Of Data Platform

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The Defense Department awarded Enlighten IT Consulting, Inc. a $40 million task order against a GSA schedule for continued development of the Big Data Platform (BDP), the company said Tuesday.The BPD is a cloud-based architecture with streaming ingest capabilities and provides storage and retrieval rates in the trillions of records per second. The platform ingests and stores data derived from several DoD sensors to support analytics that protect and defend the Department of Defense Information Networks (DoDIN).The company’s team is…

Congress

SASC Cites Concern With Army’s sUAS Approach, Seeks Info On Plans To Scale Fielding

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Army

Army Plans To Initiate ISV-Heavy Competition Later This Year, Official Says

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Senate Authorization Bill Restricts Building Navy Warships Overseas With Limited Exception For Auxiliaries

The Senate Armed Services Committee’s (SASC) version of the FY 2027 defense policy bill looks to cut the ability for the Trump administration to buy foreign-made warships, but still allow […]