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A new report says the Defense Innovation Unit awarded 63 prototype contracts and transitioned eight commercial prototypes to Pentagon partners in 2019, Federal News Network reported Wednesday. DIU took an average of 127 days to award a prototype contract in 2019, which was 42 percent faster than in the previous year.

Mark Lewis, director of research and engineering for modernization at the Department of Defense (DoD), said DoD is shifting from the "trusted foundry" model toward a “zero trust” approach when it comes to procuring microelectronics due to risks of insider threats, DoD News reported Tuesday.

The U.S. Space Force is working to improve its space domain awareness capabilities and expand efforts to leverage data from ground and space-based assets, Federal News Network reported Monday.

Sabre Systems has been awarded a five-year, $77.7 million indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract by the NAVAIR Digital Department to provide technology acceleration and integration, information technology, information management and cyber security support services, the company announced on Thursday. 

1901 Group has secured a seven-month, $2.1 million agreement, under its joint venture partner agreement with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) for data innovation support, to assist the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) National Risk Management Center (NRMC), the company announced on Thursday. 

Immuta, an automated data governance company, has appointed Nancy Patel as vice president of the public sector to lead data and analytics initiatives, the company reported on Wednesday. 

Unisys has announced the general availability of Unisys Always-On Access (AOA), powered by Stealth, to deploy, enables remote work and continuous communications, the company announced on Wednesday. 

Jacobs was awarded a three-year, $29 million by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to provide agency-wide cybersecurity support services for its 18,000-person workforce, the company announced on Monday. 

Lt. Gen. Loretta Reynolds, deputy commandant for information at the U.S. Marine Corps, told C4ISRNET in an interview published Friday about the service’s concept of “operations in the information environment.” "We don’t call it ‘information warfare’ deliberately, because we believe firmly that we have to think differently about strategic communications,” Reynolds said.

KBR has been awarded a $26.8 million task order to provide additional cybersecurity engineering support to the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Engineering Directorate Cyber Systems Engineering Division, the company announced on Monday.