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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.
Two biologists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory are conducting on-site sequencing of the genome of the SARS-CoV-2Â virus that causes COVID-19 using hand-held sequencing systems.
Jerry DeMuro, CEO of BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary and a three-time Wash100 award winner, and Tom Arseneault, company president and chief operating officer and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, told C4ISRNET in an interview published Monday about the opportunities they see in the company’s proposed acquisition of two businesses from Raytheon and United Technologies Corp.
Lockheed Martin selected Colorado-based space electronics provider SEAKR Engineering to help build a satellite communications payload for the U.S. Space Force, SpaceNews reported Sunday. Sources said Lockheed and SEAKR are expected to announce this week their partnership on the Protected Tactical Satcom program.
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, wrote in a MilsatMagazine article that there are several measures the U.S. government can consider to further advance the development of an integrated satellite communications architecture and one is the implementation of a "commercial first" strategy.
The Department of Homeland Security released a draft solicitation to transition its headquarters data network to the General Services Administration's $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract, FCW reported Thursday.
Pragyansmita Nayak, chief data scientist at Hitachi Vantara Federal, wrote in a Signal Magazine article published Tuesday that government chief information officers and their teams seeking to leverage data should advance a "digital cultural transformation" to enable agencies to “think both strategically and tactically in collecting, analyzing and acting upon data-based intelligence."
Some contractors and experts said they expect to see a disruption in the transition to the General Services Administration's $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract as federal agencies demand for more telework capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic, FCW reported Wednesday.
Rocket Lab has received Category 1 certification from NASA for its Electron launch vehicle. The certification was awarded after Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle delivered 13 NASA CubeSats to orbit in December 2018 as part of the ELaNa-19 mission and following the completion of a review of the company’s rocket production processes and facilities in 2019, the company said Tuesday.
The U.S. government is in discussions with health professionals and technology companies such as Google and Facebook about possible ways to obtain insights from smartphone location data to fight the new coronavirus, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said the company is combining Dynetics with its Leidos Innovation Center and has not lost any of the top 50 Dynetics employees since the Reston, Va.-based technology services contractor closed the acquisition in late January, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.
Government and industry leaders took part in Government Matters’ Tech Leadership Series: Innovation program to discuss how cloud computing helps agencies advance innovation, deliver citizen services and carry out their missions. One of the key themes discussed during the program is the cloud’s role in enabling agencies to store and analyze large datasets to advance public service innovation, according to an Amazon Web Services blog post published Monday.
Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP’s federal business, wrote in a GCN opinion piece published Monday that zero-trust initiatives have now become an imperative for government agencies as they work to protect their information technology systems, data and employees against cyber attacks.
