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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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  • Palo Alto Networks Gets FedRAMP OK for Cloud-Based Security Offering; Dana Barnes Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Technology, News

    Palo Alto Networks Gets FedRAMP OK for Cloud-Based Security Offering; Dana Barnes Quoted

    Palo Alto Networks has received moderate-level certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program for its cloud-based security platform. The company’s Prima Access is meant to help government agencies protect their remote employees and branch offices from cyberthreats by providing secure connectivity while ensuring compliance with the Trusted Internet Connection 3.0 program, Palo Alto […] More

  • AirBorn CEO Cindy Lewis Joins AeroVironment Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Executive Moves, News

    AirBorn CEO Cindy Lewis Joins AeroVironment Board

    Cindy Lewis, chairperson, president and CEO of AirBorn Consolidated Holdings since 1998, has been named to the board of directors of AeroVironment. Lewis’ “experience in technology development and commercialization, high reliability manufacturing, and capital deployment will be especially relevant as we leverage our future-defining capabilities to penetrate new markets and achieve solid financial results,” Wahid […] More

  • UH-60V Helicopter With Northrop’s Avionics Package Achieves First Unit Equipped Status - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Technology, News

    UH-60V Helicopter With Northrop’s Avionics Package Achieves First Unit Equipped Status

    The UH-60V Black Hawk helicopter with Northrop Grumman’s open architecture-based integrated avionics suite has reached the First Unit Equipped designation, enabling the aircraft to enter into service with the Pennsylvania National Guard’s unit at Fort Indiantown Gap. The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation Missile Center has certified the aircraft to operate under visual […] More

  • Harpoon Ventures Helps Tech Startups Navigate Government Contracting Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Harpoon Ventures Helps Tech Startups Navigate Government Contracting Process

    Harpoon Ventures, a San Diego-based venture capital firm, has raised a new $120 million fund as it continues to help early-stage technology startups win federal contracts, Fast Company reported Tuesday. Former servicemen William Allen and Larsen Jensen founded Harpoon in 2018 and have helped startups gain access to 52 federal contracts valued at $496 million […] More

  • Raytheon, Millennium Space Systems to Design Missile Warning Sensors Using Digital Engineering - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in News, Space News

    Raytheon, Millennium Space Systems to Design Missile Warning Sensors Using Digital Engineering

    Raytheon Technologies and Boeing‘s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary will use digital engineering techniques to develop digital models of infrared sensors for the U.S. Space Force’s future missile warning satellite constellation, C4ISRNET reported Tuesday. The companies will utilize digital engineering to test and validate whether the missile tracking satellites can operate in medium-Earth orbit under two […] More

  • ManTech's Srini Iyer on Federal Health IT Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Healthcare IT, News

    ManTech’s Srini Iyer on Federal Health IT Modernization

    Srini Iyer, a senior vice president, chief technology officer and head of the innovation and capabilities office at ManTech International, said federal health agencies should take the right steps to health information technology transformation and one of the efforts industry could do to help agencies in their IT modernization journey is to explore new and […] More

  • Deltek's Deniece Peterson on Federal IT Modernization-Influenced M&As - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Technology, News

    Deltek’s Deniece Peterson on Federal IT Modernization-Influenced M&As

    Deniece Peterson, senior director of federal market analysis at Deltek, said she believes mergers and acquisitions driven by federal information technology modernization efforts will continue in response to agencies’ demand for new tech platforms, the Washington Business Journal reported Monday. “I would definitely say that having those capabilities, that’s a smart bet in my personal […] More

  • Noblis Seeks to Automate Federal Processes With Digital Platforms Suite; Amr ElSawy Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Technology, News

    Noblis Seeks to Automate Federal Processes With Digital Platforms Suite; Amr ElSawy Quoted

    Noblis has launched a suite of digital platforms designed to help government agency clients meet information technology modernization objectives, streamline workflows and speed up the decision-making process using analytics and automation. RunCyberAssurance is the first platform within the Run with Noblis solutions suite meant to help federal agencies and cloud service providers facilitate compliance with […] More

  • Peter Altabef on Unisys' Public Sector Cloud, Digital Workplace Business Segments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Technology, News

    Peter Altabef on Unisys’ Public Sector Cloud, Digital Workplace Business Segments

    Unisys CEO Peter Altabef said the Blue Bell, Pennsylvania-based information technology company is “doubling down” on public sector-focused cloud business and advancing growth initiatives for its digital workplace services division, FedScoop reported Friday. Unisys created the cloud and infrastructure and digital workplace services business segments following the sale of its federal services arm to Science […] More

  • Boeing, Northrop Demo Manned-Unmanned Teaming Capabilities Using MQ-25, E-2D, F/A-18 Simulations - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Technology, News

    Boeing, Northrop Demo Manned-Unmanned Teaming Capabilities Using MQ-25, E-2D, F/A-18 Simulations

    Boeing and Northrop Grumman conducted a virtual manned-unmanned teaming demonstration using the MQ-25 Stingray unmanned aerial refueler, E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne command-and-control aircraft and the F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet. The Office of Naval Research sponsored the demonstration, which used Northrop’s portable E-2D simulator and simulations of Boeing’s MQ-25 and Super Hornet aircraft, Boeing said […] More

  • Northrop’s David Portner: Navy Could Release Solicitation for New Torpedo in Late August - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Technology, News

    Northrop’s David Portner: Navy Could Release Solicitation for New Torpedo in Late August

    David Portner, senior program manager for undersea weapons at Northrop Grumman, said he expects the U.S. Navy to issue a request for prototype proposals for a new torpedo in late August or early September, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. The Navy was expected to release the solicitation for the Compact Rapid Attack Weapon program in January, […] More