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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Bezhalel Machlis: Elbit Seeks to Strengthen US Market Presence
Israel-based Elbit Systems has agreed to acquire the night vision business of Harris, which now operates as L3Harris Technologies, for $350M and CEO Bezhalel Machlis said he expects to close the transaction in the early fourth quarter of 2019, Reuters reported Thursday.
HighPoint’s Sudhir Pucha on Citizen Service Platforms
Sudhir Pucha, vice president of information technology at HighPoint Global, wrote in an article that the adoption of IT DevOps processes has resulted in the development of project management portals and other platforms used to facilitate the delivery of services to citizens.
Smartsheet Gov Platform Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization; Ignacio Martinez Comments
Cloud-based work management system provider Smartsheet has received a provisional authority to operate under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its Smartsheet Gov platform.
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Renee Michael Named Exiger Associate Managing Director
Renee Michael, former forensic accounting leader at the FBI, has joined financial crime and risk compliance company Exiger as an associate managing director.
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ICF Named ‘Fast Moving’ Brand in Government Sector; Mark Lee Quoted
ICF has received the “Fast Moving†brand recognition from the Government Business Council for its double-digit growth in favorability in the 2019 Leading Brands in Government study.
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Four Firms Submit Proposals for Air Force Launch Service Phase 2 Competition
Northrop Grumman, SpaceX, United Launch Alliance and Blue Origin have submitted their bids for the second phase of the U.S. Air Force’s Launch Service Procurement program, SpaceNews reported Monday.
Raytheon Uses Agile, DevOps Techniques to Accelerate Software Dev’t; Todd Probert Quoted
Raytheon’s air soldier team is working with Pivotal Software and using DevOps and Agile processes to speed up the development of military software at the company’s Indianapolis-based facility.
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Mitre: Air Force Should Expand Bases, Raise Aircraft Mission-Capable Rates to 80%
A new Mitre study says the U.S. Air Force should expand four additional bases in the Pacific to accommodate operations of up to 24 bombers and 18 tankers as well as procure and field “large magazines of long-range standoff weapons†to counter anti-access/area denial threats, the Air Force Magazine reported Thursday.
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HP Federal’s Todd Gustafson on Three Steps Agencies Should Consider to Build Up Endpoint Security Posture
Todd Gustafson, president of HP’s federal business, wrote in an article published Tuesday on FedTech that there are three steps government agencies should do to protect endpoint devices from cyber threats and the first is to acknowledge cybersecurity gaps.
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Mike Petters: HII Anticipates Demand for Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
Mike Petters, CEO of Huntington Ingalls Industries and a former Wash100 winner, said the company expects the U.S. Navy to request more unmanned undersea vehicles in the future to meet the service’s new mission requirements, USNI News reported Tuesday.