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The U.S. government wants in on the resurgence of developments in contactless biometric technology, seeing smart applications of such devices in places such as airport security. But before device deployment, officials need to make sure the scanners and sensors actually do what they say they do—safely and accurately. 

One of the greatest security challenges for mobile apps running on mobile end points is attestation. In the context of secure mobility, the goal of attestation is to prove to a third party—an app or user—that a computing system is intact and trustworthy, an endeavor that is harder than it sounds, especially if you don’t “own” the end point device. How can you know it hasn’t been modified or infected by a bad actor, asks blogger Justin Marston. You can ask the system, but how do you know it isn’t lying to you, and the attacker cunningly covered his or her tracks?

The Boeing Co., Seattle, is being awarded a $23,245,869 modification to a previously awarded cost-plus-fixed-fee contract (N00019-04-C-3146) for testing of the h

Amherst Systems Inc., Buffalo, New York, has been awarded a $9,100,822 indefinite-delivery,

Cubic Defense Applications, San Diego, has been awarded a $16,959,166 cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for secure live-virtual-constructive advanced tr

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​Leidos Inc

Sippican/GSM Submarine Antenna JV, Marion, Massachusetts, is being awarded a not-to-exceed $30,890,543 cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price letter contract for the d