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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Jerry DeMuro, BAE US CEO, Inducted Into 2019 Wash100 for Leading and Delivering Sustainable Value
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
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Report: CIA Eyes Commercial Cloud Enterprise Contract Award by 2021
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.
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GSA Updates Highly Adaptive Cyber Services Special Item Number on Schedule 70
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.
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Parasoft’s New Division Seeks to Help Agencies Meet Software Testing Needs
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.
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ULA’s Tory Bruno: US Needs Next-Gen Rockets to Deter Anti-Satellite Weapons
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.
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Roy Azevedo on Key Ideas That Drive Raytheon’s Military Tech Dev’t Efforts
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.
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DARPA Seeks Proposals for Fourth OFFSET Swarm Sprint, Announces Third Sprint Awardees
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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Maximus Federal’s Andy Beamon: Agencies Should Understand Differences Between AI, Other Citizen Service Delivery Tools
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.
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Mike Leff: AT&T to Help Department of Navy Transition to FirstNet Public Safety Broadband Network
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.
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Cloudera’s Shaun Bierweiler: State, Local Governments Need to Harness Big Data via Strategy Implementation
Shaun Bierweiler, vice president and general manager of the public sector business at Cloudera, has said state and local government agencies should have strategies in place to leverage big data in order to facilitate the delivery of citizen services.
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FBI Seeks 12-Month Extension for IT Support Services BPA
The FBI requested a one-year extension for its use of the Information Technology Supplies and Support Services blanket purchase agreement, which is set to expire in April. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the bureau is seeking the extension as IT Enterprise Contract Support is still in the process of being approved as a follow-on to the ITSSS BPA.
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