Cerner Announces EHR System Deployment at VA Medical Center; Travis Dalton Quoted
Cerner and the Department of Veterans Affairs have deployed an electronic health record system at Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in Spokane, Washington.Â
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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in Contract Awards, NewsSAIC Gets $750M Army National Guard Intell Support Task Order; Jim Scanlon Quoted
Science Applications International Corp. has received a potential five-year, $750M task order to provide enterprise platforms, mission engineering and integration support for the Army National Guard’s intelligence and security directorate.
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James Taiclet: Lockheed Eyes Commercial Partnerships to Operationalize 5G Tech
Lockheed Martin CEO James Taiclet said the company plans to forge commercial partnerships in 5G as it works to help the U.S. military and allies adopt and field next-generation mobile networks, Defense One reported Monday.
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Axiom Space Eyes Late 2021 Launch for First ISS Commercial Mission
Axiom Space hopes to hammer out an agreement for its maiden commercial flight to the International Space Station slated for launch in the fourth quarter of calendar year 2021, SpaceNews reported Friday.
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Kathy Warden: Northrop Optimistic on Nuclear Modernization Initiatives Under New Admin
Kathy Warden, chairman, president and CEO of Northrop Grumman and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said she “is very confident†that nuclear modernization programs would still get government backing in the event that a new president gets elected, Inside Defense reported Thursday.
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IBM’s Rick Strasser, Gurnaik Dosanjh: Agencies Should Consider People, Process, Tech in Payroll Modernization
Rick Strasser and Gurnaik Dosanjh of IBM wrote in a joint article published Thursday on Federal Times that government agencies pursuing payroll modernization projects should consider the triad of people, process and technology.
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in Contract Awards, NewsTriSept Gets Army Cubesat Launch Integration Support Contract
The U.S. Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command has awarded TriSept a contract to provide integration support for the Gunsmoke-J small satellite technology demonstration mission that is set to lift off aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron launch vehicle in early 2021, SatNews reported Wednesday.
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Forcepoint’s Homayun Yaqub on Five Steps Organizations Can Take to Protect Against Ransomware
Homayun Yaqub, senior security strategist at Forcepoint, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that there are five measures organizations can consider to protect against ransomware attacks and one is creating a ransomware incident playbook
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SAIC Survey: 82% of Federal Execs Expect Remote Work to Continue Post-Pandemic; Mark Forman Quoted
A Science Applications International Corp. survey has found that 84 percent of federal government executives said they are more or just as productive since their transition to virtual work environments and 82 percent said they expect telework to continue even after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX’s Starlink to Bring Point-to-Point Connectivity to Microsoft’s Azure
Gwynne Shotwell, president and chief operating officer of SpaceX and a three-time Wash100 awardee, discussed in a video interview posted Monday about the company’s partnership with Microsoft to bring the Starlink satellite connectivity to the latter’s Azure cloud computing platform.
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Blue Origin Wants USAF to Continue Support to Rocket Development; Megan Mitchell Quoted
Blue Origin is working to convince the U.S. Air Force to continue to fund the development of the New Glenn rocket in order to get it certified to perform national security missions, SpaceNews reported Monday. “We’re discussing with the Air Force the path forward for certification,†said Megan Mitchell, director of government and legislative affairs at Blue Origin.
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Microsoft’s Toni Townes-Whitley on Agencies’ Move to Cloud, Zero Trust Infrastructure
Toni Townes-Whitley, president of U.S. regulated industries at Microsoft, told Federal News Network in an interview posted Monday that the COVID-19 pandemic prompted agencies to advance the move to the cloud to facilitate remote work and the transition to a zero trust model.
