The U.S. Army has awarded a team of InfoReliance and McAfee a potential five-year, $182 million contract to provide managed cybersecurity technology platforms and services for the service branch.
The companies will field and operate the Army Endpoint Security System through a managed platform-as-a-service model to provide global situational awareness capabilities, InfoReliance said Thursday.
The AESS platform will work to increase the military branch™s endpoint protection, automate reporting metrics to the Defense Department™s Cyber Scorecard and reduce the service’s attack surface.
The Army awarded the competitively procured contract to the industry team through InfoReliance-owned SEWP Solutions joint venture under NASA™s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V government-wide acquisition contract.
Aaron Faulkner, chief strategy officer at InfoReliance, said the contract seeks to reflect the company™s efforts to implement and deliver McAfee platforms as a service in an effort to provide cyber defense capabilities to clients.
The managed platform will be hosted at Army-operated data centers and will work to provide threat detection and response functionality through McAfee™s Threat Intelligence Exchange designed to leverage the company™s Data Exchange Layer offering to facilitate threat information sharing.
McAfee and InfoReliance will respectively deliver and manage the AESS platform that will work to provide visibility of the Army™s approximately 1.4 million endpoint devices worldwide.
