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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 Cybersecurity, News

    ITRC-LexisNexis Report: Identity Fraud Returned to Pre-Pandemic Levels for Most Agencies; Haywood Talcove Quoted

    A new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and LexisNexis Risk Solutions has found that 63 percent of surveyed government officials said their agencies have gone back to pre-pandemic levels of identity-related benefit fraud. The IDentification in a Post-Pandemic World Report covered responses from 986 government executives, general consumers and self-identified identity crime victims […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    SolarWinds Survey: Public Sector IT Leaders See Foreign Governments as Greatest Security Threat Source

    A new SolarWinds survey has found that 60 percent of public sector information technology decision-makers said they consider foreign governments as the top source of security threats to their organizations, while 58 percent and 52 percent of respondents cited untrained insiders and the general hacking community as primary threat sources, respectively. The software company said […] More

  • in News, Space

    Maxar Offers New Satellite Bus to L3Harris, Other Defense Contractors; Dan Jablonsky Quoted

    Maxar Technologies is scheduled to hand over to L3Harris Technologies the first of 16 satellite buses meant for a Space Development Agency constellation in low-Earth orbit in early 2024, SpaceNews reported Monday. L3Harris selected the Westminster, Colorado-based space technology company to provide the Maxar 300 satellite bus for SDA’s Tracking Layer.  In July 2022, SDA […] More

  • in News

    UberEther Launches Access Management Tool for Government Clients

    UberEther has unveiled an identity, credential and access management platform meant to help government agencies and suppliers update their legacy identity systems. IAM Advantage is a preconfigured platform that can be fielded in the cloud or hybrid platforms, on-premises or in disconnected environments and integrates technologies from several identity providers, including Radiant Logic, SailPoint, Ping […] More

  • in News

    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: Air Force Spending on Cloud OTAs is Declining

    A new Deltek analysis shows that the U.S. Air Force’s spending on other transaction agreements for cloud-based prototypes has dropped since fiscal year 2020. Data indicates that the service branch’s spending on cloud-related OTAs fell from $131 million in FY 2020 to $35 million in FY 2021 and bounced back a bit in FY 2022 […] More

  • in C4ISR, News

    Raytheon Demonstrates Common Tactical Edge Network for Air Force

    Raytheon Technologies will now build an operational architecture for the U.S. Air Force after demonstrating a network designed to enable warfighters to accelerate the decision-making process on the battlefield by facilitating tactical data sharing across disparate networks. The Common Tactical Edge Network developed by Raytheon subsidiary Collins Aerospace could help advance the Joint All Domain […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    DCS Lands Navy Contract for Aircraft Test & Evaluation Support; Larry Egbert Quoted

    DCS will continue to provide aircraft test and evaluation support for the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division under a potential five-year, $58 million contract. The single-award contract covers test and evaluation engineering, systems analysis, research and development and integration of warfare platforms into naval aircraft and aviation subsystems in support of NAWCAD’s Naval Test […] More

  • in News

    NOAA, Proteus Ocean Group to Advance Marine Research, Science Via Underwater Habitat

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Proteus Ocean Group will work together to explore research opportunities and better understand the ocean environment using a modular underwater habitat, called PROTEUS, under a cooperative research and development agreement. PROTEUS is an underwater site that will be built off the Caribbean island of Curacao to provide scientists […] More

  • in News

    Companies Work on Modernization Plans to Keep Army’s Helicopter Fleet Operational for Decades More

    Aircraft manufacturers are working on modernization plans to keep the U.S. Army’s current fleet of helicopters flying for the next three to four decades even if the military branch intends to deploy two future vertical lift programs – Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft and Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft – by the early 2030s, Defense News reported […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    Teams Led by Raytheon, Lockheed to Work on Evolved Strategic SATCOM Ground Segment

    Two teams led by Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Technologies have received prototype demonstration agreements from Space Systems Command to support the ground segment of the Evolved Strategic SATCOM program. The command said Tuesday it awarded the agreements through the Space Enterprise Consortium’s other transaction authority in support of the ESS Ground Resilient Integration & Framework […] More

  • in News

    Equinix’s Jim Gwiazda Suggests 3 Ways for Public Sector Agencies to Optimize Digital Ecosystems

    Jim Gwiazda, vice president of public sector sales at Equinix, said there are three ways public sector agencies can implement to optimize their digital ecosystems and support their mission objectives and the first is integrating with software-as-a-service providers. “Working with SaaS providers allows public sector agencies to add new capabilities quickly,” Gwiazda wrote in a […] More

  • in News

    Zscaler-Leidos Partnership Seeks to Advance Federal 5G Adoption

    Zscaler and Leidos have partnered to help federal and defense agencies accelerate 5G adoption and enable the technology to power various applications, such as autonomous vehicles, predictive fleet maintenance and smart bases. Leidos will develop prototypes and assess 5G-enabled platforms for government and defense agencies and critical infrastructure through Zscaler’s 5G Innovation Center in San […] More