{"id":209771,"date":"2026-05-06T13:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T17:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/huntsville-firm-7-others-to-compete-for-49-million-army-cybersecurity-contract-orders\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:25:08","slug":"huntsville-firm-7-others-to-compete-for-49-million-army-cybersecurity-contract-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/huntsville-firm-7-others-to-compete-for-49-million-army-cybersecurity-contract-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Huntsville firm, 7 others to compete for $49 million Army cybersecurity contract orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2026\/05\/huntsville-firm-7-others-to-compete-for-49-million-us-army-cybersecurity-contracts.html\">Huntsville firm, 7 others to compete for $49 million Army cybersecurity contract orders<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2026\/05\/huntsville-firm-7-others-to-compete-for-49-million-us-army-cybersecurity-contracts.html\">https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2026\/05\/huntsville-firm-7-others-to-compete-for-49-million-us-army-cybersecurity-contracts.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-06 13:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.al.com\">www.al.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p> Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. The Pentagon has tapped eight companies from five states to compete for each order of a new contract.The $49 million contract announced Tuesday is for a pilot program providing cybersecurity support for small companies doing business with the Defense Department.Huntsville-based Summit 7 Systems would compete for task orders against two companies from Texas, two from Virginia, two from Maryland and one from California, the Pentagon stated.Persistent cyber threats from criminal and nation-state actors against small businesses working in the defense industry prompted the establishment of the program, the Army explained.\u201cAcross the Department of Defense, there\u2019s a number of efforts underway \u2026 to provide opportunities for small businesses to meet cybersecurity requirements without having to incur all of the fixed costs,\u201d said former Army undersecretary Gabe Camarillo while explaining what the program was about in 2024.\u201cWe\u2019ve called it, notionally, before, \u2018cybersecurity as a service,\u2019 but really what it is, it\u2019s a pilot for us to create the environment that these small businesses can operate in without having to pay for the infrastructure themselves.\u201d<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huntsville firm, 7 others to compete for $49 million Army cybersecurity contract orders https:\/\/www.al.com\/news\/2026\/05\/huntsville-firm-7-others-to-compete-for-49-million-us-army-cybersecurity-contracts.html Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209772,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.al.com\/resizer\/v2\/KWG744WNXZBCZGDZLJVNSR53K4.jpg?auth=13f54819dce5630f0affabb98f394b9e803834a61d09f900bea90ed803ef13e6&width=1280&smart=true&quality=90","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-209771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-cybersecurity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209771"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209771"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209773,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209771\/revisions\/209773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}