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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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  • Coast Guard Uses Satellites, Sensors to Back Arctic-Based Comms, Situational Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coast Guard Uses Satellites, Sensors to Back Arctic-Based Comms, Situational Awareness

    The U.S. Coast Guard uses sensor technologies and satellites to perform communications, situational awareness, navigation and remote sensing operations in the Arctic region, National Defense reported Tuesday. A 2018 report by the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center says some of the technologies the Coast Guard uses for navigation and domain awareness include personal locator beacons; long-rang […] More

  • Air Force Issues A-10 Thunderbolt Wing Assembly Procurement RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Air Force Issues A-10 Thunderbolt Wing Assembly Procurement RFP

    The U.S. Air Force has released a request for proposals for a program to procure wing assemblies for the A-10 Thunderbolt aircraft. A FedBizOpps notice posted Friday says the service intends to award a potential seven-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract under the A-10 Thunderbolt Advanced-Wing Continuation Kit program. The IDIQ contract has a base ordering period of […] More

  • CenturyLink’s David Young: Agencies Need ‘Programmatic Approach’ as They Transition to EIS Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink’s David Young: Agencies Need ‘Programmatic Approach’ as They Transition to EIS Contract

    David Young, senior vice president of strategic government at CenturyLink, has said information technology managers at federal agencies should implement a “programmatic approach” as their organizations transform their IT systems and transition from Networx to the potential 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract vehicle, MeriTalk reported Tuesday. “If we understand where the information is […] More

  • Report: Army, Lockheed Eye Exoskeleton Field-Testing by Year’s End - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Army, Lockheed Eye Exoskeleton Field-Testing by Year’s End

    Lockheed Martin and the U.S. Army will kick off field-testing in December of a lower-body exoskeleton designed to reduce users’ risk of injury and fatigue and boost their load-carrying capacity, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. The ONYX exoskeleton unveiled at the Close Combat Lethality showcase at the Pentagon is classified as a technological readiness level 6 […] More

  • Report: IT Govt Spending Could Surge as End of Fiscal Year Nears - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: IT Govt Spending Could Surge as End of Fiscal Year Nears

    Federal agencies awarded approximately $1.25 billion in information technology products and services contracts in the last month of fiscal year 2017 through NASA’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement V contract vehicle, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. BGOV’s analysis shows that approximately one third of all contract obligations made through SEWP V in fiscal 2017 were awarded in […] More

  • Mercury Systems Launches Digital Transceiver for Electronic Warfare Missions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mercury Systems Launches Digital Transceiver for Electronic Warfare Missions

    Mercury Systems has introduced a digital transceiver that works to help warfighters perform electronic warfare and signal processing operations in hostile environments. The EnsembleSeries DCM6111 6U VPX digital transceiver complies with OpenVPX standards and features a system security engineering capability – BuiltSECURE - that seeks to facilitate the configuration and deployment of personalized security platforms, the company […] More

  • Mike Lawrie: DXC Eyes ‘Tuck-In’ Acquisitions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mike Lawrie: DXC Eyes ‘Tuck-In’ Acquisitions

    Mike Lawrie, chairman, president and CEO of DXC Technology, has said the company plans to close more “tuck-in” acquisitions as part of efforts to build up its digital offerings, CRN reported Thursday. “We have a pipeline of things we are looking at. … Most of what we do classifies more as tuck-ins that are very consistent […] More

  • Boeing Names 8 Potential International Block III Super Hornet Customers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Names 8 Potential International Block III Super Hornet Customers

    Boeing has named Bulgaria, Canada, Finland, Germany, India, Japan, Poland and Switzerland as potential clients for the latest configuration of its F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter aircraft, National Defense reported Wednesday. Dan Gillian, vice president of F/A-18 programs at Boeing, said Wednesday at a media day in Virginia potential orders from those international customers could be a […] More

  • Thomson Reuters Announces Keynote Speaker, Panelists at 3rd Annual Government Conference - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thomson Reuters Announces Keynote Speaker, Panelists at 3rd Annual Government Conference

    Thomson Reuters will hold its third annual Government Conference on June 5 at the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, D.C. Derek Benner, acting executive associate director for homeland security investigations at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, will serve as a keynote speaker at the event, which will focus on trade-based money laundering and supply […] More

  • Report: CGI to Add 400 Jobs, Expand IT Center in Louisiana - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: CGI to Add 400 Jobs, Expand IT Center in Louisiana

    CGI has announced plans to create 400 additional jobs as part of the expansion of its 50,000-square-foot information technology facility in Lafayette, La., KATC.com reported Wednesday. The expansion of the company’s Lafayette IT Center of Excellence at the University of Louisiana Lafayette Research Park is expected to help bring the total number of CGI employees in […] More