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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Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Gary Hix: Agency IT Leaders Should Expand Tech Consideration Set
Gary Hix, chief technology officer at Hitachi Vantara Federal, wrote in a GCN article published Friday that information technology leaders at government agencies should consider adopting cloud and other new technologies in addition to virtual private networks and virtual desktop infrastructure to support telework environments during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Virgin Galactic Conducts Second Flight Test of SpaceShipTwo Unity
Virgin Galactic has completed a second glide flight test of its SpaceShipTwo VSSÂ Unity spacecraft from Spaceport America in New Mexico.
Iridium Taps Relativity Space for Ground Spare Satellite Launches; Matt Desch Quoted
Iridium Communications has awarded Relativity Space a contract to perform up to six on-demand launches to deliver ground spare satellites to low-Earth orbit.
Rich Uhlig: Intel Explores Use of Emerging Tech to Improve Virtual Work, Privacy
Rich Uhlig, a senior fellow at Intel, wrote in an editorial published Tuesday that the company is advancing research on emerging technologies to improve learning and virtual work experiences, speed up pathogen surveillance and protect privacy in health data sharing efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Julian Setian: SOSi, AppTek Engineers Kick Off Collaboration
Julian Setian, president and CEO of SOS International and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said the company’s engineers started discussing sales channels with their counterparts at Applications Technology, a McLean, Va.-based developer of artificial intelligence-based speech recognition systems, days after SOSi made an investment in the latter company, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.
DISA Conducts Market Research for Spectrum Scheduling System
The Defense Information Systems Agency has sought information on potential sources of a scheduling system to improve dynamic spectrum sharing for the Citizen Broadband Radio Service.
GSA Begins Market Research for Common Operating Platform
The General Services Administration has started to seek information on potential sources of a Common Operating Platform that could help GSA automate crisis and emergency management tasks and manage exercise and training requirements.
Army Begins Terrestrial Layer System Program’s First Phase With Two Contract Awards
The U.S. Army awarded other transaction agreements to Boeing and Lockheed Martin in the last two months to begin the initial phase of prototyping for the Terrestrial Layer System program that seeks to deploy a ground-based platform to deliver cyber, electronic warfare and signals intelligence capabilities to brigades, C4ISRNET reported Thursday.