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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.
Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2021 Wash100 Award winner, said the U.S. needs to increase its investments in advanced computing, including artificial intelligence and applications used to analyze large data volumes, in order to compete with China, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday. “If there were an area I would point to […] More
Mitre has introduced an open-source tool that seeks to help organizations ensure that their threat intelligence and tactics, techniques and procedures are aligned with the ATT&CK knowledge base, a framework of tactics and techniques used by threat defenders to classify cyberattacks and assess and organization’s risk. The ATT&CK Workbench enables users to create, explore, annotate […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a contract from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to design and build a protective capsule for the Mars Sample Retrieval lander. The company said Tuesday it will develop an aeroshell that will protect the lander from extreme heat during its journey in deep space, landing sequence and descent to Mars to facilitate […] More
Louis Montgomery Jr., a more than three-decade human resources veteran, has joined executive search firm JM Search as a partner and head of the HR and diversity officer practice, ExecutiveBiz has learned. He oversees the placement of HR leaders, diversity officers and their teams and helps with targeted diversity recruitment efforts. Prior to joining JM […] More
Noblis has ranked 14th in the “large company” category of The Washington Post’s 2021 Top Workplaces list. The nonprofit company said Monday this marks the eight consecutive year it was named to the news organization’s annual list of the best places to work for in the Washington, D.C. area. “We are excited and honored to […] More
Rocket Lab has received a contract to design and build two Photon spacecraft to support a science mission to Mars. The twin spacecraft, dubbed Blue and Gold, are expected to launch in 2024 for the Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers mission, which is one of the three missions that NASA selected in 2019 […] More
A new MeriTalk study has found that 84 percent of information technology decision makers within the Department of Defense said accelerating the transition to enterprise cloud platforms is critical to addressing the needs of warfighters. MeriTalk said in a June 7 news release that it surveyed more than 100 defense IT leaders in April and […] More
The fifth Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite has started using its liquid apogee engine to reach its operational orbit and is expected to deploy its antennas and solar arrays in respond to commands from company and U.S. Space Force engineers once it arrives. GPS III Space Vehicle 05 launched aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket on […] More
Ian Northrop, CEO of digital engineering firm JHNA, said the company is looking to make more acquisitions as the Department of Defense increases adoption of open-architecture systems as part of its modernization efforts, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. “I’m eager, we have a pipeline of opportunities, we have other owners we are talking to,” […] More
The U.S. Air Force is seeking companies that are capable of delivering about 140 to 160 commercial derivative aircraft to supplement the service’s tanker fleet at the end of the production of the KC-46A aerial refueling aircraft. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center expects to receive commercial derivative aircraft at a rate of 12 […] More
Boeing and NASA teams started fueling the company’s CST-100 Starliner crew and service modules in preparation for the spacecraft’s second flight test that is scheduled to launch on July 30 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida aboard the United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket. The Orbital Flight Test-2 mission will allow NASA and […] More
Dominic Delmolino, vice president of technology and innovation for the public sector at Amazon Web Services, said AWS supports the U.S. federal government’s transition to Internet Protocol version 6 in accordance with an Office of Management and Budget memo released in November. “IPv6 has a number of advantages over IPv4, including an increased number of […] More
