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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.
AT&T and Mutualink have entered into an agreement to facilitate communications interoperability for first responders and other public safety personnel. AT&T said Thursday it will add Mutualink’s Interoperable Response and Preparedness Platform to the FirstNet public safety broadband network under the partnership to help users accelerate sharing of data, voice and video across systems.
Tim Malia, director of future vertical lift-light at Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary, told The War Zone in an interview published Wednesday about the X2 helicopter technology and its potential role in the development of FVL aircraft. “The term X2 technology refers to a suite of technologies developed by Sikorsky that enable the X2 aircraft to operate at high speed while improving operational capability, maneuverability, agility, survivability, and lethality at the landing zone,†Malia said.
The U.S. Army has issued a request for proposals for novel platforms designed to meet the service’s requirements for the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor program. A FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday says the service will use the other transaction authority for the rapid prototyping initiative to award a three-year, firm-fixed-price contract to a single offeror in the fourth quarter of 2019.
Maxar Technologies will test its Geospatial Cloud Analytics Hub under a potential $4.3M follow-on contract with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The company said Wednesday the GCA Hub is an unclassified platform designed to help military users generate insights about the planet using machine learning and make decisions on various initiatives such as predicting food shortages.
Boeing said it could hand over to the U.S. Air Force at least two engineering, manufacturing and development units of its Advanced F-15 variant as early as 2020, FlightGlobal reported Wednesday. The company’s announcement comes after the House Appropriations Committee’s defense subpanel allocated $986M in funds for eight F-15EX fighter jets in its draft budget request for fiscal year 2020.
Perspecta has received the Nunn-Perry Award from the Department of Defense for supporting CSCI Consulting with its employee development and corporate infrastructure initiatives through DoD’s Mentor-Protege Program. Perspecta said Tuesday it has helped CSCI create a Defense Contracting Audit Agency-compliant accounting system, achieve Capability Maturing Model Integration – Maturity Level 3 and carry out training, marketing and branding efforts through the program.
Shiju Zacharia, a 10-year Crowley Maritime veteran, has been promoted to senior vice president and general manager of the company’s solutions group as part of a realignment effort. He will report to Chairman and CEO Tom Crowley and oversee the delivery of novel platforms to government services clients through the company’s Jacksonville, Fla.-based office, the company said Tuesday.
Criterion Systems has launched a platform designed to help federal agencies develop and field cybersecurity and privacy programs. CyberScale is a cyber compliance and risk management platform for customers to identify and assess a CS&P program’s risk using the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework, the company said Tuesday.
Nick Psaki, principal system engineer at Pure Storage, wrote in a GCN article published Monday that agencies seeking to make data widely available through data democratization should implement a data-centric architecture that brings together on-premises and cloud applications.
George Kamis, chief technology officer for global governments and critical infrastructure at Forcepoint, wrote in an opinion piece published Monday on Fifth Domain that the security of the defense industrial base begins with people. Kamis said companies working with the Department of Defense should have a system in place that could help track the behavioral patterns of users.
Johnathon Caldwell, vice president of navigation systems at Lockheed Martin, told GPS World in an interview published Monday about the on-orbit performance of the first GPS III satellite the company built for the U.S. Air Force. “On Jan. 8 we began broadcasting navigation data across all signal chains, and the satellite has been in checkout mode since then,†Caldwell said of GPS III SV01, which launched in December.
Raytheon will begin installing worldwide the GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System’s monitor station receivers in August. “The modernized receivers give GPS OCX the ability to receive and decrypt all GPS III military and civil signals, a critical capability the current system doesn't have," Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services segment, said in a statement published Monday.
