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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.
The U.S. Space Force acquired signals from the Lockheed Martin-built Space Based Infrared System Geosynchronous Earth Orbit 5 satellite about 36 minutes after it launched Tuesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The SBIRS GEO-5 satellite, which transmitted signals to the Space Delta 4 operations team, launched aboard a United Launch Alliance-made Atlas […] More
NASA and The Longbow Group will develop flight test corridors for unmanned aerial systems in Hampton Roads, Virginia, under a Space Act Agreement. Longbow will work with NASA’s Langley Research Center to develop and assess a concept of operations for beyond visual line-of-sight flight corridors for advanced air mobility UAS in support of BVLOS operations […] More
Michael Crouse, director of enterprise data and user protection at Forcepoint, wrote in a GCN article published Monday that government agencies should invest in next-generation cybersecurity platforms, automate manual processes and understand user behaviors to address visibility gap in cloud environments and better manage privileged users. “Robust automated tools can help agencies not only understand […] More
SpaceX has submitted an application with the Federal Communications Commission seeking a special temporary authorization to support the first orbital flight test of its Starship launch system. The Starship test launch will be carried out at SpaceX’s Boca Chica test site in Texas to support the company's efforts to gather data to measure entry dynamics and gain more insights into what the launch vehicle experiences in a flight.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology plans to release a request for information on China’s policies and efforts to establish international standards for emerging technologies and intends to find a contractor that could help gather, compile, review and offer recommendations based on RFI responses. Responses to the sources sought notice are due May 20.
Carahsoft Technology has made Splunk’s data analytics platform on Microsoft’s Azure cloud available to public sector customers through its multiple contract vehicles. Splunk Enterprise Transformation with Azure is meant to help agencies collect, store and analyze large volumes of structured and unstructured data to detect security threats and generate insights from data to speed up the delivery of new services.
General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business assessed how the Gray Eagle Extended Range unmanned aircraft system could help advance sensor-to-shooter capabilities during a technology demonstration in late April at Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona. A joint terminal attack controller captured the sensor field of regard, video and aircraft location using an Android Team Awareness Kit and digitally transmitted ‘call for fires’ on various targets by controlling the electro-optical/infrared sensor aboard the Gray Eagle platform during the April 23 demo.
Google Cloud and SpaceX have teamed up to enable public sector agencies, companies and other organizations to deliver data, applications and cloud services to their teams that are operating at the network edge. SpaceX will establish Starlink ground stations within Google’s data centers to facilitate the delivery of data and applications to any location using Google Cloud and SpaceX’s constellation of more than 1,500 Starlink satellites as part of the partnership.
The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics’ information technology business a potential five-year, $52.1 million task order for research and development and technical support services. Naval Medical Logistics Command received four bids for the cost-plus-fixed-fee task order that was awarded through the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated Services contract vehicle and obligated $2.4 million in fiscal 2020 research, development, testing and evaluation funds at the time of award.
The U.S. Navy has selected Lockheed Martin and enterprise applications developer IFS to build and deliver a ship and aircraft maintenance platform in support of the Naval Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul initiative. The N-MRO program seeks to advance the use of digital twins, predictive analytics and artificial intelligence to predict potential system failures to improve support of fleet management, supply logistics and maintenance functions.
FedEx Office has received a recompete contract from the Government Publishing Office to provide federal agencies with printing, digital, binding, banner and sign production and direct mail services under the GPOExpress program. The contract provides over 3,000 federal employees holding GPOExpress cards with discounted FedEx Office service rates in more than 2,100 sites and access to online document management and print ordering tools.
John Osborne, chief OpenShift architect for public sector at Red Hat, wrote in an article that adopting cloud-native security platforms could help agency developers secure the development of containerized applications. Osborne said the open source community is creating and introducing new tools that could provide visibility into containerized applications, “perform deep scans to detect trojans, viruses and malware contained within the images” and improve runtime security through the identification of possible behavior changes and anomalies.
