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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

    DARPA, Tech Research Consortium Expand Microelectronics Program Collaboration

    Semiconductor Research Corp. and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have selected seven university-run research centers as part of the second iteration of the Joint University Microelectronics Program. The centers will focus on seven research themes of JUMP 2.0: cognition; communications and connectivity; intelligent sensing to action; systems and architectures for distributed compute; intelligent memory […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: Agencies Should Improve Cybersecurity to Counter Ransomware Threats

    Alex Whitworth, cybersecurity solutions vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, said government agencies and organizations must assess their cybersecurity posture and initiate cyber improvements to ensure that they can withstand ransomware attacks. “With the increasing trends, officials point to the new harsh reality that ransomware is not a question of if a company will be attacked […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    Sparksoft Awarded CMS Enterprise Data Lake, Master Data Management Support Contract

    Sparksoft will help the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services improve its enterprise master data management and enterprise data lake platform under a potential five-year, $45 million contract. The company said Friday it will provide services across various areas, including Agile transformation services and DevSecOps delivery; operations and maintenance; cloud services configuration, design, development and […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    NOAA Seeks Proposals for Environmental Field Services Contracts

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is soliciting offers as it plans to launch a full and open competition and award six indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contracts for environmental field services. The services to be provided under the IDIQ contracts will support the Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services within NOAA’s National Ocean Service, according to a […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    SpyCloud’s Joel Bagnal: Cyber Ranges Could Help State, Local Governments Manage IoT Security Risks

    Joel Bagnal, director of federal business at security company SpyCloud, said state and local government agencies should launch more cyber ranges to understand and manage the vulnerabilities of internet of things and operational technology devices, GCN reported Friday. Cyber ranges use realistic exercises and hands-on cybersecurity laboratories to train cyber professionals. Bagnal said a cyber […] More

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    ServiceNow’s Jonathan Alboum: Agencies to Make Total Experience a Focus Area in 2023

    Jonathan Alboum, federal chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said he believes that total experience will emerge as the new buzzword of 2023 as more government agencies look to provide employees and citizens with a simple and secure interface that is fast and easy to use and comes with accessible features regardless of the use case, […] More

  • in Industry News, News

    Aeyon to Hire More to Support NASA Contract Work; Sunny Singh Quoted

    Vienna, Virginia-based government services contractor Aeyon has more than 800 employees and plans to hire additional staff after securing a contract from NASA for financial management consulting services, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. In mid-December, Aeyon’s subsidiary MM Technologies won a potential $517 million contract to provide financial support services to help consolidate financial […] More

  • in News, Space

    Report: NASA Considers SpaceX Capsule as Possible Ride Home for ISS Crew Members Amid Soyuz Leak

    NASA is considering the possibility of using SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft as an alternative vehicle to transport some astronauts from the International Space Station to Earth following the discovery of a coolant leak in Russia’s Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft docked at the ISS, Reuters reported Wednesday. NASA and Russia’s space agency Roscosmos are looking into the […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    ServiceNow’s Jonathan Alboum: CISA BOD 23-01 Directive to Advance Zero Trust Plans in 2023

    Jonathan Alboum, federal chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said cybersecurity emerged as a top concern for organizations in 2022 and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s release of a binding operational directive, BOD 23-01, meant to enhance asset visibility and vulnerability detection on federal networks will drive agency adoption of zero trust architecture in the […] More

  • in Contract Awards, News

    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona to Support TriWest Under DOD Tricare T-5 West Region Contract

    Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona will support TriWest Healthcare Alliance in delivering Tricare health care services to service personnel, retirees and their families across 26 states in the West region under a contract with the Department of Defense. TriWest won a $65.1 billion managed care support contract from the Defense Health Agency for the […] More

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    Pierroberto Folgiero: Fincantieri Marinette Marine to Apply Cruise Ship Construction Process to Frigate Work

    Fincantieri CEO Pierroberto Folgiero said the Italian company’s Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin plans to apply the processes used to construct luxury cruise ships in Italy as it builds Constellation-class guided-missile frigates for the U.S. Navy, Defense News reported Tuesday. “We aim to use more preconstruction on land at Marinette, which means building modules before […] More