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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.
Hughes Network Systems has received a two-year cooperative research and development agreement from the U.S. Army to perform studies and recommend network updates for a system architecture used to monitor friendly military forces.
A new SolarWinds report shows that 75 percent of technology professionals from public sector organizations say they are not “completely confidentâ€Â that they have the skills needed to oversee IT environments in the next three to five years.
Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce Jerry DeMuro, president and CEO of BAE Systems Inc., as an inductee into the 2019 edition of Wash100 — Executive Mosaic’s annual selection of influential leaders in the government contracting arena — for leading and delivering sustainable value for BAE Systems. This honor marks the third time that DeMuro received a Wash100 Award.Â
The CIA hosted on March 22 an industry day as it plans to award by 2021 a cloud contract worth “tens of billions†of dollars to multiple service providers in support of its national security mission, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
The General Services Administration has updated a special item number on the IT Schedule 70 in order to provide federal agencies access to an expanded range of cybersecurity support services meant to protect mission-critical platforms and high-value assets.
Parasoft has launched a new division to help federal, local and state agencies address their software testing requirements. The company said Tuesday Larry Johnsen, vice president of Mil/Aero and government solutions at Parasoft, will lead the corporate division to provide strategy-based platforms and software tooling for development and testing groups to help agencies address software development initiatives around security, DevOps and Agile methods.
Tory Bruno, president and CEO of United Launch Alliance, said the U.S. must develop next-generation rockets to deter and counter potential anti-satellite weapons from China and other potential adversaries.
A Forbes article about a conversation with Roy Azevedo, president of Raytheon's space and airborne systems unit, highlights some of the ideas that drive the company’s military technology development initiatives. One of the ideas Azevedo cited is the transition from warfighting “platforms†toward the adoption of flexible “systems of systems†when it comes to modern warfare, according to the article published Monday.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has announced two awardees for the third sprint of the OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program and begun to seek proposals for the fourth sprint. Soar Technology and Carnegie Mellon University received separate contracts to perform work under the OFFSET program’s third sprint, which aims to explore new human-swarm teaming technologies, DARPA said Monday.
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Andy Beamon, vice president of digital solutions for citizen services at Maximus’ federal business, has said federal agencies seeking to transform the delivery of citizen services should understand how robotic process automation, artificial intelligence, bots and cognitive computing differ from one another. “Understanding the differences between them is important as it impacts both the citizens’ experience and government agencies navigating the procurement process,†Beamon wrote in a Nextgov article published Monday.
The Department of the Navy has agreed to deploy a national public safety broadband network from AT&T and the First Responder Network Authority across Navy and Marine Corps installations in the U.S., Seeking Alpha reported Monday. “We are honored to help the Department of the Navy transition to the FirstNet public safety communications platform,†said Mike Leff, vice president for defense at AT&T’s public sector business.
