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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.
The Defense Department has launched a second round of comment period for industry to submit questions about DoD’s revised request for proposals for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud procurement program, Nextgov reported Friday. A FedBizOpps notice posted Thursday says cloud service providers should send their questions about the amended JEDI cloud RFP through Tuesday, […] More
Some aerospace and defense contractors have initiated efforts to build new communications satellites and hypersonic missiles to leverage the rising military spending on space projects to counter threats posed by Russia and China to U.S. space assets, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Those companies also intend to capitalize on the White House’s plan to […] More
The U.S. Army plans to deploy by 2022 three new protection systems for its combat vehicles, Breaking Defense reported Friday. Those systems are the advanced reactive armor tiles that work to neutralize warheads; a signature management platform designed to protect an armored vehicle from detection by reducing the vehicle’s noise, radar and heat signature; and […] More
A spacecraft that Lockheed Martin built for NASA captured the first images of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu on Aug. 17 from a 1.4M mile-distance nearly two years after the space vehicle launched aboard United Launch Vehicle’s Atlas V rocket. NASA said Saturday it expects the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft to arrive at […] More
Amazon Web Services has introduced a 110-day training program that aims to help public sector partners further develop their skills as they work to support government, nonprofit and education clients in their cloud migration efforts. AWS said Thursday the Public Sector Partner Transformation Program is a two-phase initiative that seeks to help participants assess their cloud […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has signed a multiyear lease deal with CyrusOne to move one of its data centers to the latter’s data center location in Northern Virginia by the first six months of 2019. “During the past seven years, CyrusOne and SAIC have developed a strong relationship that will continue to grow with our new […] More
Fulcrum has been included in Inc. magazine’s 2018 list of 5K “fastest-growing†U.S. companies for nine consecutive years. “We have developed and followed a strong growth strategy that has allowed us to make the Inc. 5000 list again,†Fulcrum CEO Jeff Handy said in a statement published Thursday. Handy added the company’s continued growth in the federal contracting […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to propose applied research and basic concepts that could help build and maintain systems designed to facilitate automated knowledge curation, discovery and application. A FedBizOpps notice posted Aug. 17 says the Artificial Intelligence Exploration opportunity focuses on two technical areas: machine-assisted curation and machine-assisted inference. The […] More
CAE’s Germany-based business has received a Capability Maturity Model Integration level 3 appraisal for development from the CMMI Institute. The company said Wednesday CAE Electronik GmbH received the CMMI maturity level 3 rating after an independent appraiser evaluated the firm based on its established and well-characterized processes, tools, methods and standards. “This is a great achievement for […] More
Northrop Grumman and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have established a new wireless transmission standard through a demonstration of a two-way data link that transmitted data at speeds of 100 gigabits per second over a 20-kilometer range. Northrop said Wednesday the demonstration conducted on Jan. 19 in Los Angeles marked the conclusion of the […] More
ManTech International will collaborate with three other companies to build a prototype for the U.S. Army‘s Persistent Cyber Training Environment under an “other transaction” agreement with Consortium Management Group. ManTech said Tuesday it will integrate its software, cyber and systems engineering experience with learning management platforms and infrastructure development expertise of Ultimate Knowledge Institute, C5 Cyber Partners and […] More
Lockheed Martin is now ready to transport the crew capsule of the Orion spacecraft from Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans to Kennedy Space Center in Florida following the completion of the structural closeout weld in July, NASASpaceflight.com reported Tuesday. Orion will launch with four astronauts aboard the Space Launch System rocket as part of Exploration Mission-2 that […] More
