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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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  • Raytheon-Rheinmetall Team to Offer Lynx for Army’s Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Program; Taylor Lawrence Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon-Rheinmetall Team to Offer Lynx for Army’s Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Program; Taylor Lawrence Quoted

    Raytheon and Rheinmetall’s defense business have partnered to offer an optionally manned platform for the U.S. Army’s Next-Generation Combat Vehicle program. The industry team plans to propose the Lynx Infantry Fighting Vehicle for the service’s NGCV program that seeks to replace the Bradley combat vehicle, Raytheon said Monday. Army Futures Command has made NGCV one […] More

  • SSL’s Rob Zitz: Space Sensor Layer Will Benefit From End-to-End Solution - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SSL’s Rob Zitz: Space Sensor Layer Will Benefit From End-to-End Solution

    Rob Zitz, a senior vice president at Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary, told SpaceNews in an interview published Monday that a space layer designed for missile defense will benefit from an end-to-end solution including sensors and satellites. Zitz, chief strategy officer for government systems at SSL, said artificial intelligence and other technology platforms will help facilitate data […] More

  • ManTech Launches Purdue University Global’s Cloud Degree Program for Employees; Kevin Phillips Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ManTech Launches Purdue University Global’s Cloud Degree Program for Employees; Kevin Phillips Quoted

    ManTech International has teamed up with Purdue University Global to offer a cloud computing degree program to its employees. “We see strong synergy between this exciting new cloud computing education program and our bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in cyber launched in 2017,” Kevin Phillips, ManTech president and CEO, said in a statement published Monday. […] More

  • Lockheed Completes AEHF-4 Comms Satellite Encapsulation; Mike Cacheiro Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Completes AEHF-4 Comms Satellite Encapsulation; Mike Cacheiro Quoted

    Lockheed Martin has enclosed the U.S. Air Force’s fourth Advanced Extremely High Frequency communications satellite in a payload fairing in preparation for its Oct. 17 launch atop United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket. Mike Cacheiro, vice president of protected communications at Lockheed, said in a statement published Monday AEHF-4 will complete a constellation of satellites that will provide “global […] More

  • Michael Gray Talks SAIC-Led Team’s Efforts on Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Prototype - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Michael Gray Talks SAIC-Led Team’s Efforts on Next-Gen Combat Vehicle Prototype

    Michael Gray, a senior director at Science Applications International Corp., has said the company has worked on 10 various directives to come up with an experimental combat vehicle prototype for the U.S. Army’s Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center, National Defense reported Friday. A SAIC-led industry team received a potential eight-year, $237M contract in […] More

  • DoD OKs Operational Test of Lockheed-Built F-35 - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD OKs Operational Test of Lockheed-Built F-35

    Lockheed Martin has received approval from the Defense Department to start full combat testing of its F-35 fighter aircraft, Bloomberg reported Friday. Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment, cleared the plan for the fighter jet to begin operational tests after “concurring” with the recommendation of the program manager to kick off testing in […] More

  • Lockheed Partners With NanoRacks to Seek Commercial Payload Concepts for Orion Capsule - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Partners With NanoRacks to Seek Commercial Payload Concepts for Orion Capsule

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with NanoRacks to seek concepts of commercial payloads that could fly on upcoming missions of NASA’s Orion spacecraft. Lockheed said Friday the market assessment marks the initial step toward its vision to deliver commercial opportunities to deep space. Mike Hawes, Orion program manager and vice president of human space exploration […] More

  • Report: Northrop Targets Oct. 26 Launch for ICON Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Northrop Targets Oct. 26 Launch for ICON Spacecraft

    Northrop Grumman plans to launch on Oct. 26 the Ionospheric Connection Explorer spacecraft aboard the Pegasus rocket, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. The rocket will launch from the Stargazer L-1011 aircraft that will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida. ICON was originally scheduled to launch in June, but Northrop postponed the take-off after Pegasus sent off-nominal data […] More

  • Oracle Launches Cloud-Based App for Land Management; Mark Johnson Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Oracle Launches Cloud-Based App for Land Management; Mark Johnson Quoted

    Oracle has unveiled a cloud-based application designed to help local and state government agencies facilitate land management and the processing of building permits and inspections. Oracle Public Sector Community Development is a subscription software-as-a-service app that works to upgrade the regulatory and compliance processes for building infrastructure and land use, the company said Thursday. “Today’s […] More

  • Lockheed Considers Making Room for Experiments Aboard Orion Capsule; Rob Chambers Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed Considers Making Room for Experiments Aboard Orion Capsule; Rob Chambers Quoted

    Lockheed Martin’s space business has begun to consider the possibility of providing companies and researchers a chance to fly experiments aboard NASA’s Orion spacecraft, the Denver Business Journal reported Thursday. Orion is scheduled to launch in 2020 atop the Space Launch System for an unmanned flight test as part of Exploration Mission-1 and take off […] More

  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Warfighters Need Access to Globally Available Satcom Capabilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Warfighters Need Access to Globally Available Satcom Capabilities

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, has said warfighters and government users in hostile and remote environments depend on resilient satellite communications platforms. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Signal magazine piece published Monday that such satcom systems “must be accessible at a moment’s notice.” She noted how government leaders acknowledge the value of […] More

  • James Hanson Named Nextgov Publisher; Tim Hartman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    James Hanson Named Nextgov Publisher; Tim Hartman Comments

    James Hanson, formerly managing director at marketing communications firm ConnellyWorks, has joined Nextgov as first publisher, the publication reported Monday. He will oversee business development, client relations and product planning for the GovCon community through the publication’s Washington, D.C.-based office. Hanson is “a master at helping government contractors connect with federal decision makers, and Nextgov […] More