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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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    ULA’s Delta IV Sends NRO National Defense Payload to Space

    A National Reconnaissance Office payload lifted off Friday at 2:11 p.m. Pacific time aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Delta IV rocket as part of the NROL-47 national defense mission. Will Crawford, NRO program manager at ULA, said in a statement published Friday the payload’s launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California marks the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture’s 27th NRO mission in partnership with the […] More

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    Lynn Dugle: Engility Seeks to Address Clearance Issues Via Continuous Monitoring

    Engility CEO Lynn Dugle has said the company has started to pilot continuous evaluation initiatives in an effort to address issues related to security clearances. “What we know from a community is about 80 percent of people who lose clearances do so for financial reasons,” Dugle told Defense One in an interview published Thursday. “Under continuous monitoring, instead […] More

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    Lockheed Configures Solid State Radar With Aegis Ashore Missile Defense System

    Lockheed Martin has integrated its solid state radar platform with the Aegis Ashore system in an effort to demonstrate the capability of the combined systems to detect and counter ballistic missile threats. Tony DeSimone, vice president and chief engineer at Lockheed’s integrated warfare systems and sensors, said in a statement published Thursday the combination of […] More

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    Shaun Bierweiler: Hortonworks to Back 2020 Census With Data Processing Tools

    Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, has said the company will work to provide several data technology platforms for the U.S. Census Bureau in support of the 2020 Census project under a contract awarded in 2017. Bierweiler told Datanami in an interview published Tuesday that the software company will offer its Hortonworks […] More

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    OST Global Seeks to Offer Mentoring Support to Small Businesses Via ‘GovCon Incubator’

    OST Global Solutions has unveiled an incubator program that seeks to help small businesses secure federal contracts and transition into prime contractors. The GovCon Incubator will work to provide member companies networking and mentoring services through its in-house consulting personnel, the company said Wednesday. The incubator also has a curriculum in entrepreneurship, business development, operations and […] More

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    Andreas Bernhard: Sikorsky Uses New Digital Tools in CH-53K Devt Process

    Andreas Bernhard, CH-53K chief engineer at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky business, has said Sikorsky has adopted software tools such as LCA and CATIA V5 and other digital technologies to produce a paperless design of the CH-53K helicopter, Rotor & Wing International reported Monday. “It’s all model based; there are no more drawings,” he said at the SciTech […] More

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    CTC, Affiliate Get Aerospace Quality Recertification; Ed Sheehan Comments

    Concurrent Technologies Corp. and its affiliate Enterprise Ventures Corp. have renewed their AS9100D aerospace quality management system accreditation that seeks to recognize the companies’ product design, production, assembly and testing processes. CTC said Tuesday ABS Quality Evaluations conducted comprehensive audits to assess the companies’ compliance with the AS9100 standard. AS9100 seeks to supplement the International Organization […] More

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    Air Force Eyes Software Task Order Award to Raytheon-Led Cyber Venture

    The U.S. Air Force has announced its plan to award a task order to Forcepoint to provide a software platform for the service’s warrior preparation center. Raytheon operates Forcepoint as a cybersecurity joint venture with investment firm Vista Equity Partners. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says the Air Force Europe’s WPC will use the Trusted Thin Client software offering to enable exercise […] More

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    Pivotal Commware Moves to New Kirkland, Wash Headquarters

    Pivotal Commware has transferred its corporate headquarters from Bellevue, Washington, to a new building in Kirkland in a move to meet research requirements as the company works to expand its 4G and 5G wireless capabilities. Brian Deutsch, CEO of Pivotal Commware, said in a statement published Monday the new headquarters will provide the company additional […] More

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    ICF Lands $70M in NCI Recompete BPAs for Comms, Cancer Content Devt Services

    ICF International has secured two potential five-year blanket purchase agreements worth $70 million combined to provide web development, communications and cancer content development support services for the National Cancer Institute. The first BPA with NCI’s office of communications and public liaison has a ceiling value of $50 million and the other agreement with the agency’s […] More

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    Orbital ATK to Perform 2 ISS Cargo Resupply Missions for NASA in 2018

    Orbital ATK plans to use its Cygnus spacecraft to perform two cargo delivery missions this year to the International Space Station under the first Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. The ninth ISS cargo supply mission, dubbed OA-9, is set to take off in May aboard the Orbital ATK-built Antares rocket from […] More