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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.
Amazon is in talks with stakeholders about plans to establish its second corporate headquarters in Northern Virginia’s Crystal City, the Washington Post reported Saturday. Sources familiar with the matter told The Post the discussions are now in the advanced stages and more elaborate than those the company has had with other potential sites within the […] More
Northrop Grumman plans to launch no earlier than Wednesday, Nov. 7, NASA’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer spacecraft aboard the Pegasus XL rocket that will be air-dropped from the L-1011 Stargazer carrier aircraft, Spaceflight Now reported Friday. Northrop tentatively rescheduled the ICON launch as the company plans to conduct a launch readiness review as early as Monday to further […] More
IBM’s planned $34B acquisition of Red Hat could have an impact on the federal cloud market and agencies’ information technology modernization plans, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. IBM agreed in late October to pay $190 in cash for each share of Red Hat in a move to establish a global provider of hybrid cloud platforms. BGOV […] More
Siemens and the International Society of Automation co-sponsored a workshop on Monday, Oct. 29, in Houston to discuss new approaches to safeguard the energy sector from cyber attacks. Cybersecurity professionals from government and industry discussed how machine learning and security analytics platforms could help detect vulnerabilities and defend industrial control systems and other critical infrastructure […] More
Boeing and Israel have signed a reciprocal purchase agreement that calls for the Chicago-based contractor to invest in Israel-based companies contingent on defense contract awards, The Jerusalem Post reported Wednesday. The report noted Boeing agreed to work with local companies for at least 35 percent of the value of all contracts exceeding $1M with the […] More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise will allow astronauts and researchers aboard the International Space Station to directly perform in-space analyses through its supercomputer. HPE said Thursday it will offer commercial high-performance computing services to experimenters on ISS following the completion of a one-year mission that sought to evaluate the Spaceborne Computer’s capacity to withstand zero gravity, radiation […] More
Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon, has said the firm has teamed up with a “dozen or so†companies across Silicon Valley to identify technology offerings that could be adapted for use by military clients and other customers, Aviation Today reported Thursday. “We’re making a big bet that we have to […] More
Delphix has expanded its data offering’s capabilities to help public sector clients speed up the migration of applications to the Microsoft Azure Government cloud platform. The company said Thursday its Delphix Dynamic Data Platform and other offerings are available to government agencies through Carahsoft Technology. Michael Adams, who oversees the Delphix team at Carahsoft, said Delphix’s […] More
Executives from Lockheed Martin and Boeing have discussed how their companies could help the Defense Department increase readiness of fighter jets, Defense News reported Wednesday. Defense Secretary James Mattis issued in October a memo that directs the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy to boost the mission capability rate to up to 80 percent […] More
Kay Sears, military space general manager and vice president at Lockheed Martin’s space division, has said threats posed by adversaries to U.S. space assets create “a perfect storm†that prompts the government and companies to rapidly build new space capabilities, National Defense reported Wednesday. “We’ve got new organizations being formed to address the challenges. … […] More
Cerner has announced that the Defense Department has started to see improvements in health care services delivery following the initial deployment of its new electronic health records platform, Nextgov reported Wednesday. Travis Dalton, president of government services at Cerner, wrote in a blog post published Tuesday the adoption of the MHS Genesis system has resulted […] More
Industry stakeholders have participated in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s efforts to come up with a framework of common standards designed to help agencies assess an individual’s suitability for a security clearance, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, said Tuesday ODNI expects to complete those […] More
