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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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  • NTT DATA Services’ Noel Hara: Tech Procurement Calls for Agencies to Form Team That Includes IT, Cyber Professionals thumbnail
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    NTT DATA Services’ Noel Hara: Tech Procurement Calls for Agencies to Form Team That Includes IT, Cyber Professionals

    Noel Hara, vice president and chief technology officer for the public sector at NTT DATA Services, said government agencies looking to buy technologies should assemble a tech procurement team that includes information technology services experts, enterprise architecture staff and IT protection professionals, according to an article published Monday on American City and Country. “Cybersecurity can […] More

  • Leidos Releases Study on Mental Health Stigma, Mistrust in Security Clearance Process; Roy Stevens Quoted thumbnail
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    Leidos Releases Study on Mental Health Stigma, Mistrust in Security Clearance Process; Roy Stevens Quoted

    A Leidos study has found that mental health stigma, misunderstanding and misinformation continue to exist in the security clearance process and that there is a significant degree of mistrust in how mental health disclosures are assessed in the process. “The security clearance process is essential to protecting our national security, but it should not discourage […] More

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    IBM Research Unveils Analog AI Chip

    IBM’s research arm has developed an analog artificial intelligence-based chip designed to perform deep neural network inference tasks. The analog AI chip comes with 64 analog in-memory compute cores each containing 256-by-256 crossbar array of synaptic unit cells and digital processing units that could carry out scaling functions and nonlinear neuronal activation operations, IBM Research […] More

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    Caveonix’s Kaus Phaltankar: FedRAMP Revision 5 Includes New Controls Related to Supply Chain, Documentation Requirements

    Kaus Phaltankar, co-founder and CEO of Caveonix, said the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Revision 5 baseline adds new controls, including a family of controls related to supply chain risk management. Phaltankar said in a Help Net Security video published Thursday that when it comes to changes to control parameters under the new baseline, […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    CSRB Report Calls on Companies, Agencies to Strengthen Identity & Access Management; Robert Silvers Quoted

    A report by the Cyber Safety Review Board outlines findings on the activities associated with an extortion-focused threat actor group called Lapsus$ and offers 10 recommendations for government and industry stakeholders to protect their infrastructure from cyberthreats posed by Lapsus$ and related groups. The CSRB report found that Lapsus$ performed attacks against dozens of government […] More

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    4 Companies Named to DOD’s Optical Input/Output Tech Prototype Project

    The Department of Defense has selected Lockheed Martin, Intel, Qorvo and Ayar Labs for a prototype project that seeks to further develop optical input/output technologies to enable high-speed data communications. The Co-Packaged Analog-Drive High-Bandwidth Optical Input/Output or KANAGAWA prototype project was awarded through the Strategic and Spectrum Missions Advanced Resilient Trusted Systems other transaction authority. […] More

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    DARPA, 4 Companies to Work on AI Cyber Challenge

    Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI will collaborate with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on a two-year competition to advance the development of artificial intelligence-based cybersecurity systems that could be used to detect and address software vulnerabilities and protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. The AI companies will share their technologies and expertise with DARPA’s AI […] More

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    Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Caren Von Hoene, Ryan Hinkle Named to AFCEA DC Chapter Board; Mark Serway Quoted

    Hitachi Vantara Federal executives Caren Von Hoene and Ryan Hinkle have been appointed to the board of directors of the Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Association’s Washington, D.C. chapter. Von Hoene currently serves as strategic executive of federal systems integrators at Hitachi Vantara Federal and Hinkle is director of federal sales at the Reston, Virginia-based […] More

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    Thomas Bell on Leidos’ Tech Specialties, ‘North Star’ Vision

    Leidos CEO Thomas Bell said the company is working on its “North Star” vision that would guide its strategic decisions as it approaches its first decade as an independent company. “The North Star isn’t going to be that suddenly we’re going to go 90 degrees left or 90 degrees right. The North Star is going […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    Tech Companies Back White House Initiative to Improve Cybersecurity at K-12 Schools

    Amazon Web Services, Google, Cloudflare, PowerSchool and D2L are supporting the White House’s K-12 cybersecurity initiative by committing resources to help strengthen the cyber defense capabilities of the country’s K-12 schools. AWS is allocating $20 million to a K-12 cyber grant program and offering free security training to information technology personnel at K-12 schools through […] More

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    Axellio’s Scott Aken: DOD Should Collaborate With Industry to Address Security Issues Related to 5G Migration

    Scott Aken, CEO of Axellio, said the Department of Defense should work closely with industry stakeholders to address challenges associated with DOD’s transition to 5G communication networks and align platforms with the U.S. military’s operational and security requirements while ensuring interoperability. Aken wrote in an article published Monday on Military Embedded Systems that DOD and […] More

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    ARPA-H Issues Solicitation for Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone Program

    The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health has released a broad agency announcement for a program that seeks to transform innovations from other domains into health care platforms that can be scaled to larger application areas. The Scaling Health Applications Research for Everyone program calls for interested stakeholders to demonstrate technical feasibility and develop a […] More