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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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    ServiceNow’s Jonathan Alboum on Ways to Retain Gen X, Gen Z Employees in Federal Government

    Jonathan Alboum, federal chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said work environment, pay and culture are some of the factors that have implications for the recruitment and retention of young talent in the federal workforce. “Gen Z civil servants, they want flat organizational structures. …. They really prioritize collaboration, emphatic leadership and very inclusive decision-making processes,” […] More

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    BigBear Demos Decision Support Tech at Navy’s Digital Horizon Event; Tony Barrett Quoted

    BigBear.ai partnered with Accenture’s federal arm and the U.S. Navy to demonstrate its decision support technology offering, called Ursa Minor, at the service branch’s Digital Horizon, a three-week artificial intelligence and unmanned integration event that concluded Thursday in Bahrain. Ursa Minor uses machine learning-augmented algorithms and analytics to detect potential threats and works to provide […] More

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    Splunk Survey Highlights Impact of Data Challenges on Public Sector Orgs’ Cybersecurity Readiness; Bill Rowan Quoted

    A new Splunk study has found that 66 percent of public sector organizations face difficulties in using data to mitigate cybersecurity threats and recover from cyber incidents and 52 percent of such organizations struggle to leverage data to inform decisions related to cybersecurity. Splunk said Wednesday 56 percent of respondents in the public sector reported […] More

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    Lockheed Invests in Digital Manufacturing Company Fortify

    Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in Fortify to enable the Boston-based digital manufacturing company to advance additive manufacturing of radio frequency components. Fortify said Tuesday its Digital Composite Manufacturing platform is designed to enable users to produce complex structures using electrical, mechanical, electromagnetic and thermal properties. Fortify CEO Lawrence Ganti […] More

  • in News, Space

    2 Maxar-Built Satellites Launch to Support Intelsat’s C-Band Spectrum Transition; Dave Wajsgras, Chris Johnson Quoted

    Two geostationary satellites that Maxar Technologies built for Intelsat unfolded their solar arrays and started transmitting signals and commissioning activities on orbit following their launch Tuesday aboard an Ariane 5 rocket from Arianespace’s launch site in French Guiana. The Galaxy 35 and Galaxy 36 satellites will enable Intelsat to transfer its services as the Federal […] More

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    Chris Kastner on HII Mission Technologies Business

    Chris Kastner, president and CEO of HII, said the mission technologies business accounts for approximately 25 percent of the company’s sales and will “outpace shipbuilding from a growth perspective,” Defense News reported Monday. The Newport News, Virginia-based contractor’s Technical Solutions division became HII Mission Technologies in late March, operating with six business groups: command, control, […] More

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    Air Force Tests Operational Prototype of Hypersonic Air-Launched Weapon From Lockheed; Jay Pitman Quoted

    The U.S. Air Force performed the first test flight of an operational prototype of its air-launched hypersonic missile. The 412th test wing at Edwards Air Force Base in California conducted the test of the Lockheed Martin-built AGM-183A Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon on Friday, Dec. 9, off the coast of Southern California and initial results show […] More

  • in News, Space

    NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Completes Uncrewed Artemis I Mission

    NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft returned to Earth and made a parachute-assisted splashdown on Sunday in the Pacific Ocean after 25.5 days of traveling around the moon as part of the Artemis I mission. Artemis I is an unmanned flight test that took off on Nov. 16 from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    Paperless Innovations on Use of Commercial SaaS Tech to Reduce Purchase Card Program Risks; Mike Tocci Quoted

    Paperless Innovations has stated that commercial off-the-shelf software-as-a-service platforms could help government agencies advance workforce automation and reduce procurement card program risks in compliance with the requirements of the Office of Management and Budget’s Circular A-123. Paperless said Friday OMB Circular A-123 seeks to create standard requirements and best practices for government purchase card programs […] More

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    Boeing Subsidiary to Continue Work on Active Flow Control X-Plane Program Under DARPA Contract

    Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has received a potential $42.2 million contract to perform work on the next phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control. Aurora will work on the second and third phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with […] More