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Germany Awards GD Partner QGroup A Contract To Secure Army IT Networks

Tuesday, February 16th, 2016

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Germany Awards GD Partner QGroup A Contract To Secure Army IT Networks

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The German Bundeswehr (German Federal Armed Forces) awarded QGroup, a partner of General Dynamics [GD], a contract to deploy and maintain security appliances to secure IT networks, GD said Monday.The contract calls for the companies to deploy and maintain the QTrust Server security appliances, which is based on GD’s Pitbull Trusted Operating System (PitBull). GD and QGroup will provide capabilities to improve the security of the Bundeswehr’s IT infrastructure.GD highlighted PitBull provides multi-level security by providing access and integrity controls…

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