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Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON and a previous Wash100 award winner, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that adopting an infrastructure-as-a-service model could help federal agencies upgrade to a flexible and secure infrastructure and meet modernization requirements.

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Seventeen companies have signed five-year Space Act Agreements with NASA to take part in developmental testing activities as part of the agency’s Urban Air Mobility Grand Challenge. NASA said Wednesday the challenge seeks to test the readiness and capabilities of vehicles that could transform mobility in densely populated areas.

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Lockheed Martin’s venture capital arm has made a strategic investment in Ayar Labs to help the latter advance the commercialization of its monolithic in-package optical input/output platform.

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The Department of Defense introduced the final version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program in late January and Maurice Uenuma, vice president of federal at Tripwire, said CMMC is a key step to securing DoD’s supply chain, Signal Magazine reported Sunday. The Potomac Officers Club will host its CMMC Forum 2020 on April 2. Click here to register for the event.

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An environmental assessment from the Federal Aviation Administration projects a surge in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rocket launches in Florida in the next few years, SpaceNews reported Thursday. SpaceX plans to perform 38 launches from two launch complexes in Florida this year, including 30 missions from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. 

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Tom Romeo, general manager of Maximus’ federal services segment and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, wrote in a GCN article published Thursday there are three technology trends to watch in the federal government space this year and one is the adoption of new technologies to transform the way citizens apply and receive health care benefits.

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Frank Dimina, vice president of public sector at Splunk, wrote in an opinion piece published Wednesday on C4ISRNET that the Department of Defense should leverage a common data platform that is scalable and can handle large amounts of data from across military branches to achieve the joint all-domain command and control capability.

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Raytheon and IronNet Cybersecurity have teamed up to develop cyber platforms that could be used to defend operational and information technology systems against threat actors.

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Vasil Jaiani, data management SME at Guidehouse, wrote in a GCN article published Tuesday that public sector agencies should implement foundational data strategies that could help them fully leverage data as a strategic asset and one is finding a data leader.

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CircleCI, a San Francisco-based continuous integration and delivery platforms provider, and Amazon Web Services teamed up to help federal agencies using the AWS GovCloud platform advance the modernization of their application development workflows, TechCrunch reported Tuesday.

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A new SolarWinds report shows that 52 percent of information technology security professionals from public sector organizations say they consider untrained and careless insiders as the top threat to their agencies.

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