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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.
Aireon has partnered with the Federal Aviation Administration to allow FAA to access and develop use cases for the company’s space-based Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast data in air traffic management.
The U.S. Air Force’s AFWERX unit has issued a request for information on commercial wearable technologies that could help detect COVID-19 infections early and send alerts to users by providing insight into heart rate fluctuations, oxygen levels and other biometric data.
Deloitte and Cisco have offered next-generation contact center technologies to help agencies address the surge in demand for government services due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Rethinking the customer experience and integrating automation and virtual assistants should be part of the long-term solution for every government," said Marc Mancher, principal at Deloitte Consulting.
Steven Spano, regional vice president for the public sector business at Tableau, told ZDNet in an interview published Sunday that when it comes to data analysis, public sector customers want a variety of options and the freedom to explore and interact with data.Â
A new report from Zscaler has found a 260 percent increase in encryption-based threats during the first nine months of 2020. Zscaler’s threat research team analyzed 6.6B encrypted threats delivered through Secure Sockets Layer channels between January and September and found that health care was the most targeted industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, followed by finance and insurance, manufacturing, government and services sectors.
The IBM Center for The Business of Government and the National Academy of Public Administration have released a report that outlines 10 Agile government principles and offers examples of how they could help improve government performance.
Several experts said advancing the U.S. Air Force’s Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control concept will not only require services to employ artificial intelligence, machine learning and other emerging technologies to connect sensors and warfighters but also develop data standards, C4ISRNET reported Monday.Â
The Professional Services Council has found that the use of shared information technology services by federal agencies has jumped 2 percent each year since 2017, FedScoop reported Monday.Â
Sally Richardson, program director for the Human Landing System at Northrop Grumman, said the company completed on Oct. 8 a system readiness review of the HLS' transfer element and is preparing for two more assessments in December and January, NASASpaceflight reported Friday.Â
John McDonald of CommScope and Jeff Panebianco of ID Technologies wrote in an opinion piece published Friday on C4ISRNET that the Department of Defense should prioritize the establishment of the flight line of the future by providing warfighters with reliable and secure connectivity everywhere to ensure mission readiness.Â
A new Riverbed Technology survey has found that 81 percent of federal information technology leaders said the move to telework arrangements expedited their agencies’ deployment and use of network visibility platforms.
Rocket Lab has announced that it will try to recover its Electron rocket’s first stage using a parachute system during its next mission that is slated for launch in mid-November.Â
