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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.
Intelsat has agreed to acquire two software-defined satellites from a joint venture of Thales and Leonardo for its planned 5G network. The two satellites from Thales Alenia Space will join the other two software-defined spacecraft that Intelsat procured from Airbus – Intelsat 42 and Intelsat 43 and are expected to be in service in 2025, […] More
A new Deloitte report recommends seven strategies the government should consider to enhance the contact center experience and one of those is seeing government contact centers as experience hubs, not cost centers. Contact center managers should pursue the delivery of great service by resolving a customer’s issues through a single interaction with the aid of […] More
Travis Steele, a senior strategic solutions architect at Red Hat, said there are three ways the Department of Defense can do to establish an automation-first culture and one is creating a framework that includes processes, tools and procedures needed for automation and can be implemented across agencies. Steele wrote in a commentary published Wednesday on […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced the selection of 10 university and industry research teams for a program that seeks to develop lightweight, night vision goggles that could offer wider field of view and improved visual access across infrared bands using advances in transduction materials and planar optics. The Enhanced Night Vision in […] More
A new SolarWinds survey has found that 56 percent of public sector information technology decision-makers said they consider the general hacking community as the top security threat in their organizations, while 52 percent of respondents pointed to careless insiders as primary threats. Market Connections, a research firm commissioned to conduct the survey, polled 400 IT […] More
HawkEye 360 has received a potential three-year, $15.5 million contract to help the Air Force Research Laboratory demonstrate, evaluate and test its hybrid space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance architecture. The company said Tuesday it will offer radio frequency analytics research, experiments, development, data ingestion tools, data collection and personnel support to AFRL’s space vehicles directorate […] More
The U.S. Space Force awarded three other transaction authority agreements through the Space Enterprise Consortium to prototype an electro-optical/infrared on-orbit demonstration for weather imagery and cloud characterization requirements and is now seeking information on potential sources that could provide weather data as a service for the EO/IR Weather System. The service plans to use the […] More
Woolpert has obtained a U.S. patent for technologies that could enable an aerial lidar sensor system to collect high-resolution topographic and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The patented technologies are part of a topo-bathy lidar sensor system called Bathymetric Unmanned Littoral LiDar for Operational GEOINT or BULLDOG and were developed to provide the U.S. Army […] More
Pivot Point Security has formed a new practice to help corporate clients doing business with the federal government meet cybersecurity compliance and attestation requirements. The federal risk and compliance practice will provide audit preparation and compliance services around U.S. government regulations, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity and Risk Management Frameworks, Cybersecurity […] More
A CoinDesk Research report says Bitcoin and Etherium outperformed traditional macroeconomic assets in 2021 by gaining 60 percent and 407 percent, respectively. George Kaloudis and Edward Oosterbaan of CoinDesk noted in a blog published Thursday that bitcoin, which eclipsed the market capitalization of $1 trillion the previous year, saw a key technological upgrade to its […] More
U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command is seeking information on potential sources that can provide information technology services in support of INSCOM’s mission in 35 geographical locations. The command considers awarding a 60-month contract for the INSCOM IT Support Services‐Next program, according to a request for information published Dec. 21. Under the I2TS-Next program, the […] More
The Naval Surface Warfare Center has awarded six contracts to develop additive manufacturing prototypes as part of efforts to protect military technologies from a possible breach or compromise, Defense News reported Thursday. General Electric, Lockheed Martin’s rotary and mission systems segment, Mercury Systems, ReLogic Research, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and Charles Stark Draper […] More
