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The Marine Corps, meanwhile, can now send classified data using commercial smartphones and tablets for mission-critical operations.
Peraton
Cyber Hardened Exascale Secure Survivable Cross Domain Solution
Peraton developed the Cyber Hardened Exascale Secure Survivable (CHESS) cross- domain solution to enable secure machine-to-machine transfer of information across multiple security classification networks. It protects those networks from cyber intrusions and unauthorized access to sensitive information.
CHESS’ zero trust model validates system integrity
by continuously isolating and mitigating threats. The architecture is scalable and agile, and it uses commercial off-the-shelf technology along with free and open- source software based on Open Mission Systems and the Universal Command and Control Interface.
Perspecta Labs
Situational Awareness, Cyber Weapon Hunting and Dynamic Network Reconfiguration
Perspecta has developed a group of technologies that combine sensors, cyber defenses and the ability to dynamically reconfigure networks to create a moving target as a defense.
Three tools — Scalable and Holistic Energy Cyber Weapon Localization and Characterization; Machine-
Intelligence for Advance Notification of Threats and Energy-Grid Survivable Situational Awareness; and Distributed, Assured and Dynamic Configuration — were put to the test by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Energy Department. The agencies jointly evaluated the tools’ grid recovery capabilities during
a multifaceted, simulated cyberattack on a model of the U.S. power grid built on Plum Island, N.Y.
The tested technology is now being deployed by state and federal cybersecurity first responders such as the Maryland Air National Guard.
PotomacWave Consulting
FedDataCheck
PotomacWave created FedDataCheck to help its government customers maintain data integrity
by alerting contracting
officers to inaccuracies in contract information. The
tool uses standard Microsoft technology combined with data warehousing and business intelligence. It pulls data from the Federal Procurement
Data System-Next Generation and the System for Award Management and runs close to 140 checks for each contract.
When an inaccuracy is found, FedDataCheck flags
it and notifies contracting officers so they can correct the information. Ten agencies are already using the tool.
Precise Software Solutions
Food Outbreak Signal Detection System
Precise Software Solutions
built the Food Outbreak Signal Detection System using the latest natural language model. It identifies potential food safety problems based on social media streams such as Twitter, predicts whether the text contains
food safety information and extracts food types, symptoms and locations. A website with a geographic information system interface shows the number
of signals in each area and the relevant details.
Raytheon
DevOps in the Air Operations Center-Weapon System
Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services partnered with other companies — including Pivotal Labs, Solidus and Elevate — to
speed the development and deployment of new software capabilities to warfighters through the Air Force’s Air Operations Center-Weapon System, the Army’s Air Soldier System and other programs.
Combining new technologies with its engineering expertise, Raytheon created a system that can deliver new applications the same way smartphones receive updates. Using commercial software models allows the company to give customers the products they want. A constant feedback loop helps Raytheon developers understand how their choices
affect users so that they can deliver better software.
RSDC Group
Implementation of Amelia AI Solution
RSDC adapted IPsoft’s Amelia digital assistant as a help- desk tool. After successful tests at the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Army’s Network Enterprise Technology Command, RSDC partnered with the Defense Logistics Agency for broader implementation.
At DLA, the focus started with the most common help- desk inquiries. In the first year, Amelia was trained on the agency’s functions and the language used by employees and customers. The solution can understand spoken or typed words and infer the user’s intent.
With Amelia on track to take the majority of tier zero calls in the coming year, employees are increasingly free to respond to more complex inquiries.
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