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SpaceX Announces Milestone With Crew Dragon ‘Mark 3’ Parachute System
SpaceX performed the 10th consecutive test of its Mark 3 parachute design for the Crew Dragon spacecraft, SpaceNews reported Tuesday.
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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SAP NS2’s Mark Testoni on Cybersecurity Concerns With Airport Charging Docks
Mark Testoni, CEO of SAP National Security Services and a 2019 Wash100 award winner, told Yahoo Finance in a video interview posted Tuesday that some charging docks at airports could make travelers vulnerable to cyber attacks.
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Sehlke Unveils Payroll Support Tool for Military, Civilian Agencies
Sehlke Consulting has introduced a new platform designed to support civilian and military payroll divisions across the federal financial community, ExecutiveBiz has learned.
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LMI’s John David on Counter-WMD Mission Space
John David, director of national security science and technology practice at LMI, discussed in an interview published Thursday about the company’s efforts to help government clients keep pace with the changing threat landscape for weapons of mass destruction.
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Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch on Inmarsat’s Global Xpress 5 Satellite
Inmarsat is seeking to meet increased U.S. military and commercial demand for more bandwidth in the Middle East and Europe with its Global Xpress 5 communications satellite, C4ISRNET reported Thursday. “GX5, adding to that mix, looks at an area where we’ve got increased and significant demand. It is a very, very dense environment for commercial as well as military," said Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government.
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DSS, All In Solutions Seek to Back Veterans’ Health Care Via Joint Venture
Document Storage Systems and All In Solutions have established a joint venture to help meet the health care needs of veterans and further advance federal health innovation.
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PAE National Security Business Posts $1.1B in Contract Wins for 2019; Chico Moline Quoted
PAE’s national security solutions division won contracts worth over $1.1B in 2019. The company said Wednesday it secured three contracts worth more than $500M combined to provide support services for the intelligence community.
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Bell Eyes Pratt & Whitney-Made Engine as Auxiliary Power Unit for 360 Invictus
Textron’s Bell subsidiary plans to use a Pratt & Whitney-built helicopter engine as auxiliary power unit for its proposed helicopter design for the U.S. Army’s Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft program, Vertical Magazine reported Tuesday.
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International Gov’t Execs Discuss Cloud-First Policies, IT Modernization at AWS re:Invent
More than 300 government officials from 40 countries joined the three-day Amazon Web Services Government Delegation Program at re:Invent in Las Vegas to discuss the barriers to digital transformation and ways to address such challenges.
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LexisNexis Risk Solutions Polls Law Enforcement Leaders on Data Sharing; Haywood Talcove Quoted
A new LexisNexis Risk Solutions survey has found that 66 percent of law enforcement leaders said they prefer to share data with agencies nationwide and 34 percent said they intend to share information with their region only.
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Boeing-Saab Team Reports T-7A Trainer Aircraft Program Milestones
A Boeing–Saab team is achieving milestones with the T-7A Red Hawk trainer program as it works to deliver the first aircraft to the U.S. Air Force in 2023, National Defense reported Friday.
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ViON’s Rob Davies on Multicloud Strategy, Hyperconverged Infrastructure
Rob Davies, executive vice president of operations at ViON and a former Wash100 award winner, told MeriTalk in an interview published Wednesday that application performance, data security and cost are the key factors driving the multicloud strategy.