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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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  • GDIT Wins $829M DIA IT Support Task Order; Amy Gilliland Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GDIT Wins $829M DIA IT Support Task Order; Amy Gilliland Quoted

    General Dynamics’ information technology business has received a potential 10-year, $829 million task order from the Defense Intelligence Agency to provide on-site and remote information technology services for domains and networks at various DIA sites worldwide. The Customer Care Center task order awarded through the Solutions for the Information Technology Enterprise III contract in November […] More

  • Hypersonic Plane Developer Destinus Announces Seed Financing Round Results; Mikhail Kokorich Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hypersonic Plane Developer Destinus Announces Seed Financing Round Results; Mikhail Kokorich Quoted

    Swiss aerospace startup Destinus has raised $29 million in seed funding to further develop its hypersonic aircraft. “We plan to use the funding to continue the development of our hydrogen airbreathing and rocket engines and test the first supersonic flights powered by hydrogen engines in the next 12 to 18 months,” Mikhail Kokorich, founder and […] More

  • Leanne Caret: Boeing Invests in Production Centers, Eyes Future Growth Driven by Defense Programs - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leanne Caret: Boeing Invests in Production Centers, Eyes Future Growth Driven by Defense Programs

    Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing‘s defense, space and security business and a five-time Wash100 Award winner, said the company is making a “significant” investment in production facilities and capabilities as it waits for a number of defense programs to transition from the development stage to the production phase, Inside Defense reported Thursday. Although […] More

  • Jim Taiclet: Lockheed to Explore Other M&A Opportunities if Aerojet Deal Fails to Advance - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Taiclet: Lockheed to Explore Other M&A Opportunities if Aerojet Deal Fails to Advance

    Jim Taiclet, chairman, president and CEO of Lockheed Martin and a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, said the company could explore other merger and acquisition opportunities if the Aerojet Rocketdyne deal fails to materialize, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. In late January, the Federal Trade Commission filed a suit to block Lockheed’s planned $4.4 billion acquisition of […] More

  • Carahsoft to Bring RegScale’s Compliance Automation Offering to Public Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft to Bring RegScale’s Compliance Automation Offering to Public Sector

    Carahsoft Technology will provide public sector clients access to RegScale’s continuous compliance automation platform through its existing contracts with federal, state and local governments and reseller partners. RegScale’s platform works to digitize regulatory requirements, facilitates creation of compliance artifacts and automates compliance data collection, reporting and compilation using an application programming interface-centric approach, Carahsoft said […] More

  • DHS Includes 17 R&D Topics in Long Range BAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS Includes 17 R&D Topics in Long Range BAA

    The Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology directorate has listed 17 research and development topics in its annual Long Range Broad Agency Announcement and invites scientific and technical community stakeholders to suggest novel concepts that could help DHS address operational priorities. The 17 topics in the LRBAA are classified into six R&D priority areas: […] More

  • Dawn Meyerriecks Named Mitre Senior Visiting Fellow - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Dawn Meyerriecks Named Mitre Senior Visiting Fellow

    Dawn Meyerriecks, former deputy director of the CIA’s directorate of science and technology, has joined Mitre as a senior visiting fellow to provide advice and help the nonprofit company address national security issues. “[Meyerriecks’] work and breadth of knowledge in harnessing technology for national security will enhance work across the company and contribute to our […] More

  • OT Cybersecurity Company Shift5 Announces $50M in Series B Funding - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OT Cybersecurity Company Shift5 Announces $50M in Series B Funding

    Shift5, an operational technology cybersecurity company, has secured $50 million in a round of Series B financing led by New York-based venture capital firm Insight Partners. The company said Tuesday it will use the capital to further invest in talent recruitment and product development efforts to help meet the demand for cyber-physical protection across national […] More

  • Mitre President, CEO Jason Providakes Named to 2022 Wash100 for Leading COVID-19 Response Initiatives - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre President, CEO Jason Providakes Named to 2022 Wash100 for Leading COVID-19 Response Initiatives

    Executive Mosaic is honored to introduce Jason Providakes, president and CEO of Mitre, as an inductee into the 2022 class of the Wash100 Award, Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of the most significant contributors in the government contracting sector. This recognition marks the third Wash100 Award for Providakes and underscores his efforts to lead Mitre amid […] More

  • AWS' Cedric George on How Edge Computing Helps DOD Advance Speed to Mission - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AWS’ Cedric George on How Edge Computing Helps DOD Advance Speed to Mission

    Cedric George, director for DOD strategic business development at Amazon Web Services, told FedScoop in an interview published Monday that edge computing enables the Department of Defense to provide warfighters access to systems at the tactical edge across ground, air or maritime domain. He cited the U.S. Air Force’s On-Ramp 4 technical demonstration in 2021 […] More

  • State Department OKs $100M Patriot Missile System Engineering Support Sale to Taiwan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    State Department OKs $100M Patriot Missile System Engineering Support Sale to Taiwan

    The State Department has approved Taiwan’s request to buy engineering support services to enhance, maintain and sustain the Patriot air defense system under a potential $100 million foreign military sales agreement. The FMS deal seeks to support Taiwan’s participation in the Patriot International Engineering Services Program and Field Surveillance Program over a five-year period, the […] More

  • Space Optical Comms Experiment Issues Prompt SDA, General Atomics to Consider Next Moves - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Space Optical Comms Experiment Issues Prompt SDA, General Atomics to Consider Next Moves

    The Space Development Agency and General Atomics are considering options to move forward after they failed to establish contact with the Laser Interconnect and Networking Communications System satellites that launched in June 2021, SpaceNews reported Sunday. Two LINCS satellites launched as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-2 rideshare mission on June 30 to demonstrate space-based optical communications. […] More