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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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    Google Public Sector, Battelle NEON Seek to Advance Ecological Research With Cloud, Computing Tools

    Google’s government and education arm and Battelle’s National Ecological Observatory Network have partnered to help advance ecological research by expanding access of scientists and researchers to NEON datasets using cloud, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other computing tools. Battelle-operated NEON is a National Science Foundation-funded observatory that collects spatial and temporal datasets that researchers use […] More

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    Booz Allen Unveils Tech Innovation Center; Susan Penfield Quoted

    Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a new center that seeks to demonstrate emerging technologies that could help address challenges associated with national security, defense and climate resilience. The Helix Center for Innovation is a 9,422-square-foot facility in Washington, D.C., and comes with more than 30 simulations, hands-on activations, tactile demonstrations and immersive environments in emerging […] More

  • in Executive Moves, News

    Mark Lewis, John ‘JV’ Venable Named to US Advisory Board of Reaction Engines

    The U.S. business of U.K. company Reaction Engines has appointed national security and aerospace experts Mark Lewis and John “JV” Venable to the newly established advisory board. Venable and Lewis are the inaugural members of Reaction Engines Inc.’s board of advisers tasked with guiding the company’s strategy and advancing market growth initiatives for thermal management […] More

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    Albers Aerospace Invests in eVTOL Aircraft Developer Hop Flyt; John Albers Quoted

    Albers Aerospace has made an investment in Lusby, Maryland-based Hop Flyt to help the latter further improve the design, develop and produce military versions of its electrical vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, ExecutiveBiz has learned. Hop Flyt is working on military versions of three unmanned aircraft systems – Squall, Cyclone and Vortex – and Albers […] More

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    Pratt & Whitney to Develop Small Core Engine Combustor Under NASA Contract

    Pratt & Whitney has received a two-year contract from NASA to come up with combustor designs for small core engines to help reduce fuel consumption for single-aisle aircraft. The contract was awarded under the Hybrid Thermally Efficient Core project, which is part of the space agency’s Sustainable Flight National Partnership that seeks to advance the […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: DFARS, CMMC 2.0 Have Complementary Roles in Protecting Data, National Security

    Alex Whitworth, director of sales at Carahsoft Technology, said that although the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program have differences when it comes to their compliance assessment, both standards complement each other in safeguarding data and national security and advancing the interests of defense contractors. He wrote in a […] More

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    Marc Boysworth Named Aeyon Senior Principal Data Scientist

    Data scientist Marc Boysworth has joined government services provider Aeyon as senior principal data scientist. He brings over two decades of expertise in data science and analytics as he leads the Aeyon Center of Excellence and helps improve ACE’s automation, data culture, technical infrastructure, advanced analytics, data governance, knowledge management and data visualization offerings, the […] More

  • in Big Data & Analytics, News

    Jacobs, Palantir Build Analytics Tool for Waste, Wastewater Treatment Facilities

    Jacobs and Palantir Technologies have developed and piloted a data analytics platform designed to gather and analyze data from water and wastewater treatment plants to help operators manage operations and maintenance of such facilities. The two companies used process optimization platforms and machine learning modules to build the analytics tool in the Palantir Foundry operating […] More

  • in Cybersecurity, News

    NetImpact Gets Microsoft Preferred Solution Badge for Cybersecurity Offering; PV Puvvada Quoted

    NetImpact Strategies has received the Preferred Solution badge from Microsoft for its commercial-off-the-shelf software designed to help organizations automate the implementation of information security policies and manage their security posture. NetImpact said Tuesday its DX360 Security Accreditation, Remediation, Management of Operations and Risk in Microsoft AppSource is a cybersecurity platform that could help organizations manage […] More