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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.
ViON presented a portfolio of Oracle as-a-Service cloud-based platforms at the 2018 East Coast Oracle user conference that kicked off Tuesday in Raleigh, N.C. ViON said Tuesday its OaaS offering is designed to help organizations speed up cloud migration efforts, reduce total cost of ownership and gain access to Oracle’s software and hardware platforms. Tom Frana, […] More
Lockheed Martin and the F-35 joint program office have wrapped a series of durability, drop and static tests designed to validate the F-35 aircraft’s resilience and strength in combat environments and support maintenance forecasting and fleet management operations. The fighter aircraft has an average service lifetime of 8K hours and preliminary ground testing results showed […] More
E3 Federal Solutions has been named one of the six finalists in the 16th Annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards’ “Contractor of the Year†category for companies with $75M to $300M in annual revenue. E3 Founder and CEO Everett Johnson said in a statement the company’s growth seeks to reflect its shared vision, core values […] More
BAE Systems has introduced at an Air Force Association conference an analytics tool designed to help organizations process, secure, transmit and store weapons systems data and other national security information. Epiphany is a data management, risk management and information security platform meant to allow users to search historical data, monitor the status of approvals and […] More
Will Roper, undersecretary of the U.S. Air Force for acquisition, technology and logistics, has said the service intends to award contracts to companies with emerging technology platforms within 24 hours through “startup days,†Defense News reported Monday. He told the publication in a Sept. 7 interview that prior to the actual startup days, the branch would ask […] More
United Launch Alliance’s Delta II rocket made its final launch Saturday after it took off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with a Northrop Grumman-built spacecraft designed to collect measurements of the Earth’s sea ice, glaciers and ice sheets. The Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 transmitted signals to ground stations in Norway approximately 75 […] More
Some defense companies such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Boeing have made investments in startups that develop small satellites as the Pentagon and intelligence agencies work to counter space security threats through the use of Cubesats, the Washington Post reported Sunday. Raytheon announced a partnership with Herndon, Va.-based satellite firm HawkEye 360 on Monday, Sept. 10, […] More
Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security business, has said cost-cutting measures and an accelerated decision-making process helped drive the company’s government contract proposals to be more competitive, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. “This is the year where the first results from all the steps we have taken will be apparent […] More
A joint venture of Systems Planning and Analysis and Envisioneering will vie for task orders to provide research, development, evaluation and test support services to the Defense Department under a potential nine-year, $28B contract. The Defense Technical Information Center’s Information Analysis Center Multiple-Award Contract also covers R&D analytical services in support of defense components and other […] More
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said satellite internet of things has become the “strongest growing area for the company,†Via Satellite reported Thursday. Desch noted that Iridium is not in competition with other satellite communications providers and works to differentiate itself. “We have always been different from other broadband networks,†he said at the World Satellite […] More
Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Navy have demonstrated the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned helicopter with other autonomous assets to hunt sea mines, Flightglobal reported Thursday. Fire Scout demonstrated its situational awareness capability and capacity to communicate with a submersible drone and a small unmanned surface ship to perform underwater mine sweeping operations at the service’s […] More
Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company intends to deboost the last batch of its legacy satellites in the first quarter of 2019 as it plans to transition all network functions to the Iridium NEXT constellation, SpaceNews reported Wednesday. Desch, a four-time Wash100 recipient, told reporters Monday at World Satellite Business Week in Paris the company has […] More
