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Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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  • in Contract Awards, News

    SAIC Reports $664M in Q2 FY22 Intelligence, Space Contract Wins; Michael LaRouche Quoted

    Science Applications International Corp. booked space and intelligence contracts worth approximately $664 million combined during the second quarter of fiscal year 2022. SAIC said Thursday most of the contracts cover services in digital engineering, cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, information technology modernization, mission operations and technology integration areas in support of classified space and intelligence community […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    Brian McMahon: ManTech Demos Secure Tactical Edge Platform in Denied Environments

    Brian McMahon, director of cloud architecture at ManTech International, said the company secured a contract via the Defense Commercial Solutions Opening Pilot program after demonstrating its Secure Tactical Edge Platform in a denied, disrupted, intermittent and limited environment during a U.S. Navy demonstration in late 2020. McMahon wrote in an article published Tuesday that ST3P […] More

  • in Cybersecurity News, News, Space News

    Booz Allen’s Kevin Coggins: Space Sector Should Adopt Zero Trust to Protect Space-Based Assets

    Kevin Coggins, vice president for positioning, navigation and timing at Booz Allen Hamilton, said he believes the space industry should implement zero-trust architectures to safeguard space-enabled networks from cyberthreats, Breaking Defense reported Monday. “The architectures of government systems are inherently trusting,” Coggins said. “If we continue to have these open, trusted links, we’re going to […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    Army Gets Approval to Pursue Competition for Future Tactical UAS Program

    The U.S. Army has received approval to transition the Future Tactical Unmanned Aircraft System program to a competitive prototyping phase as part of efforts to replace its Shadow UAS, Defense News reported Monday. The Army Requirements Oversight Council cleared the requirements for the FTUAS program through an abbreviated capabilities development document after evaluating improved and […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    FBI Seeks Industry Input on Agile Services Blanket Purchase Agreement

    The FBI has asked industry for insights on how to design and execute a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement to acquire contractor Agile teams to meet mission requirements. The bureau plans to use Scaled Agile Framework methodologies and principles for the FBI Agile Services Teams acquisition effort, according to a request for information posted Friday on […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    Tom Keane: Microsoft Gets Accreditation for Azure Government Top Secret Cloud

    Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure global at Microsoft, said the company has secured authorization to operate for its Azure Government Top Secret cloud platform, enabling it to support national security agency clients with data workloads classified at the Top Secret level. Keane wrote in a blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft achieved the […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    Doug Philippone on Palantir’s Work on SOCOM Contract, Army’s TITAN Program

    Palantir Technologies announced in May that it secured a potential $111 million contract from U.S. Special Operations Command for enterprise data management support and Doug Philippone, the company’s global defense lead, said the contract with SOCOM marks the transition from the intelligence space to the mission command space, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. Philippone told the publication […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    Palo Alto Networks Gets FedRAMP OK for Cloud-Based Security Offering; Dana Barnes Quoted

    Palo Alto Networks has received moderate-level certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based security platform. The company’s Prima Access is meant to help government agencies protect their remote employees and branch offices from cyberthreats by providing secure connectivity while ensuring compliance with the Trusted Internet Connection 3.0 program, Palo Alto […] More

  • in Executive Moves, News

    AirBorn CEO Cindy Lewis Joins AeroVironment Board

    Cindy Lewis, chairperson, president and CEO of AirBorn Consolidated Holdings since 1998, has been named to the board of directors of AeroVironment. Lewis’ “experience in technology development and commercialization, high reliability manufacturing, and capital deployment will be especially relevant as we leverage our future-defining capabilities to penetrate new markets and achieve solid financial results,” Wahid […] More

  • in Government Technology, News

    UH-60V Helicopter With Northrop’s Avionics Package Achieves First Unit Equipped Status

    The UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter with Northrop Grumman’s open architecture-based integrated avionics suite has reached the First Unit Equipped designation, enabling the aircraft to enter into service with the Pennsylvania National Guard’s unit at Fort Indiantown Gap. The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation Missile Center has certified the aircraft to operate under visual […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Harpoon Ventures Helps Tech Startups Navigate Government Contracting Process

    Harpoon Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital firm, has raised a new $120 million fund as it continues to help early-stage technology startups win federal contracts, Fast Company reported Tuesday. Former servicemen William Allen and Larsen Jensen founded Harpoon in 2018 and have helped startups gain access to 52 federal contracts valued at $496 million […] More

  • in News, Space News

    Raytheon, Millennium Space Systems to Design Missile Warning Sensors Using Digital Engineering

    Raytheon Technologies and Boeing‘s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary will use digital engineering techniques to develop digital models of infrared sensors for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning satellite constellation, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. The companies will utilize digital engineering to test and validate whether the missile tracking satellites can operate in medium-Earth orbit under two […] More