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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.
Amazon Web Services will now provide the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps access to AWS Marketplace after the Department of the Navy amended a blanket purchase agreement it had awarded to the company under the Enterprise Software Licensing program. The modified BPA will help streamline access of Navy and Marine Corps components to software […] More
Jason Adolf, vice president of global public sector at Appian, said state and local government agencies facing limited technical resources and budgetary constraints can deploy a modern low-code platform to enable non-technical agency employees to digitize customer-facing processes. “With an effective low-code platform, any authorized agency employee can quickly and easily design, build, and digitize […] More
Matthew McFadden, vice president of cyber at General Dynamics Information Technology, said government agencies and organizations should prioritize four core cybersecurity practices to defend their environments: implementing two-factor and multi-factor authentication, advancing vulnerability and patch management, reducing the attack surface and pursuing active defensive cyber operations. In an article published Wednesday on GDIT’s website, he […] More
Boeing initially planned to reacquire Spirit AeroSystems in an all-cash transaction but made a last-minute move by proposing to fund its purchase of the aircraft parts manufacturer using mostly company stock, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday. According to people familiar with the negotiation, the two parties discussed a deal in which Boeing would acquire […] More
IBM and NASA’s Interagency Implementation and Advanced Concepts Team have developed a set of large language models designed to improve scientific research by providing researchers with improved access to large volumes of specialized knowledge and enabling them to extract relevant information from diverse data sources. NASA said Tuesday the INDUS suite of LLMs contains encoder […] More
Moises DelToro, a business and technology leader, has joined General Dynamics Information Technology as Navy/Marine Corps chief technology officer. In a LinkedIn post published Monday, DelToro said he looks forward to showcasing GDIT’s portfolio of tailorable digital platforms designed to integrate with government customers’ IT networks. DelToro brings to the role over two decades of […] More
ManTech and venture capital firm Marque Ventures have partnered to rapidly identify emerging national security capabilities from startups and technology companies to help address mission challenges facing government customers. Eric Brown, senior vice president and chief innovation officer at ManTech, said in a statement published Monday the partnership marks the first engagement of Marque with […] More
Lockheed Martin integrated its digital command and control system with the first prototype of the Department of Defense’s Joint Fires Network as part of the JFN demonstration during the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s Valiant Shield 2024 exercise. The company said Thursday its digital C2 system demonstrated its capability to facilitate live operational planning during the exercise, […] More
Kevin McCarthy, former speaker of the House of Representatives, has joined the advisory board of enterprise artificial intelligence software company C3 AI. As an advisory board member, McCarthy will offer strategic counsel to C3 AI’s leadership team to facilitate engagement with the U.S. federal government and allied countries to advance the use of the company’s […] More
GE Aerospace and NASA are working on a project that will embed electric generators or motors in a high-bypass turbofan to augment power during different flight phases as part of efforts to develop fuel-efficient aircraft engines with reduced emissions. The company said Wednesday the hybrid electric demonstrator engine project intends to develop a system that […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded Advanced Technology International an other transaction agreement to manage the third iteration of the Information Warfare Research Project consortium. ATI said Monday the IWRP 3 OTA awarded by the Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic has an ordering period of 10 years that will kick off in October and run through […] More
The Defense Innovation Unit and the U.S. Navy are awarding success memos to five vendors that have developed prototypes and fielded machine learning operations tools designed to modify, track and redeploy ML algorithms on unmanned underwater vehicles used to detect underwater target threats. DIU said Monday that Arize AI, Domino Data Lab, Fiddler AI, Latent […] More
