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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 News

    Paperless Innovations’ Actus Platform Added to StateRAMP Authorized Product List; Mike Tocci Quoted

    The State Risk and Authorization Management Program has added Paperless Innovations’ cloud-based procurement management platform Actus to the authorized product list after the offering passed the audit by third-party assessment organization Earthling Security and received authorization from the StateRAMP program management office. Earthling Security said Wednesday it assessed the Actus platform in Amazon Web Services […] More

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    Flashpoint National Security Solutions Forms Public Sector Advisory Board

    Flashpoint’s government arm has named four national security leaders to its newly created advisory board tasked with providing strategic guidance, industry insights and perspectives to help expand its presence in the public sector and support government missions. Brian Brown, president of Flashpoint National Security Solutions, said in a statement published Tuesday the expertise and guidance […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    HII to Provide Training Systems Sustainment Support Under $32.5B Air Force TSA IV Contract; Andy Green Quoted

    HII will provide design, analysis, development, production, installation, database generation, testing and sustainment support for training platforms under the fourth iteration of the Training Systems Acquisition contract with the U.S. Air Force. HII was one of the 37 companies that won spots on the potential 10-year, $32.5 billion TSA IV indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded by the […] More

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    Boeing’s Proposed Demonstrator Aircraft for NASA Project Designated as X-66A

    The U.S. Air Force has designated the aircraft that Boeing is building under NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project as the X-66A. X-66A is an X-plane meant to help the U.S. achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as stated in the White House’s Aviation Climate Action Plan, the space agency said Monday. An industry […] More

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    Google Cloud Looks to Automate Security Assessments Through OSCAL Adoption

    Google Cloud has submitted its security package for Department of Defense Impact Level 5 in a machine-readable format, called Open Security Control Assessment Language, via the government’s web-based application eMass. OSCAL represents security control assessments developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and is meant to automate security assessments and facilitate the sharing […] More

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    Stacie Ohler Named Strategic Business Development Senior Director at Ultra I&C

    Stacie Ohler, a defense industry veteran, has joined Ultra Intelligence & Communications as senior director of strategic business development, she announced in a LinkedIn post. She brings to the role over 15 years of defense and national security experience in program management, business development, research and development, acquisitions, operational planning, wargaming, campaign design and intelligence. […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    ManTech Supports DOD Zero Trust Gov Lab With Reference Architecture; David Hathaway Quoted

    ManTech has developed the zero trust reference architecture for the Department of Defense’s government laboratory designed to test zero trust platforms for agencies reporting to DOD. “ManTech’s Zero Trust Architecture is designed to improve the enterprise security posture as agencies undergo digital transformation and cloud migration,” David Hathaway, executive vice president and general manager of […] More

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    Infleqtion-Backed Research Team Demos Quantum-Enabled Accelerometer

    A team of researchers supported by quantum information company Infleqtion at the University of Colorado has made an advancement in quantum navigation by combining quantum sensing with machine learning to demonstrate a quantum-enabled accelerometer designed for use in positioning, navigation and timing. The software-configured accelerator exhibited a reduction in sensor volume greater than a factor […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    Veracode Report Finds More Security Flaws in Public Sector Applications

    A new Veracode study shows that 82 percent of applications developed by public sector organizations exhibit security flaws compared with 74 percent of applications created by private sector entities. Veracode said Monday it analyzed data gathered from over 27 million scans across 750,000 applications for the State of Software Security 2023 report and found that […] More

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    Transition to EIS Telecom Contract Continues to Face Delays; MetTel’s Don Parente Quoted

    At least 30 percent of federal agencies have been given another year to transition from the Networx contract to the General Services Administration’s 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle for telecommunications services, Federal Times reported Thursday. The COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain challenges further disrupted the shift to the EIS contract, which was awarded […] More

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    Caveonix Offers Hybrid Cloud Platform Adopters Up to 2 Years of Free Transition Coverage; Kaus Phaltankar Quoted

    Caveonix is offering organizations transitioning to its hybrid cloud platform and committing to a three-year contract period up to two years of complimentary coverage for transition. Caveonix Cloud is a platform designed to manage security, governance and compliance across hybrid multicloud environments and uses Neural-Insight artificial intelligence-driven automation to help organizations gain visibility, perform continuous […] More