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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.
A NASA spacecraft designed to gather information about the sun is scheduled to take off no earlier than Aug. 4 aboard the United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will determine how heat and energy move through the sun’s atmosphere by flying directly […] More
Northrop Grumman started work on a potential 15-month, $23 million follow-on contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the U.S. Air Force’s Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment platform. The contract that was awarded in September 2017 will run through December, Northrop said Monday. EPS works to provide troops in the North Polar Region […] More
Hortonworks and PSSC Labs have teamed up to develop a high-performance computing system for use in conjunction with Hortonworks Cybersecurity Platform. PSSC’s CyberRax Cybersecurity Appliance is a turnkey platform that works to deliver cyber data with alert summaries, real-time processing and high-speed ingestion capabilities to users and supports 240 processor cores and 150 terabytes of data, the […] More
Northrop Grumman has begun full-rate production of the center fuselage of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Northrop said Friday the phase marks the start of a production interval in which a fuselage will be manufactured every day and a half. Frank Carus, vice president and F-35 program manager at Northrop, said the […] More
Col. Chuck Worshim, program manager for cruise missile defense systems at the U.S. Army’s program executive office missiles and space, has said General Dynamics’ land systems business will serve as the platform integrator for the service’s Interim Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense platform, Defense News reported Thursday. The IM-SHORAD system seeks to address a capability gap in the […] More
The U.S. Air Force has fielded its Contracting-Information Technology system on Appian’s cloud platform that has impact level 4 certification to host controlled unclassified data. The CON-IT system on Appian Cloud is designed to replace the service branch’s seven legacy contract writing tools in order to facilitate the acquisition process, reduce costs and speed up […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said the Defense Department’s “analysis of alternatives†study suggests that “commercial is really hard, and you have to follow the terminals,†SpaceNews reported Thursday. DoD’s 18-month-long study looked at how services could leverage commercial innovations to support video conferencing, live drone streaming […] More
Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer and vice president of presales engineering at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said federal agencies seeking to optimize their data centers should initially assess their application portfolio and develop their modernization strategy before adopting a specific infrastructure technology, MeriTalk reported Wednesday. Those infrastructure technologies include software-defined storage, converged infrastructure and hyperconverged infrastructure. Chehreh said […] More
Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications and a four-time Wash100 winner, has said the “bring your own device†arrangement is one of the top trends he has observed in the satellite communications sector. “The market is demanding reliable connections through personal mobile devices, regardless of location,” he told CommunicAsia in an interview published Wednesday. According to […] More
Leonardo DRS has been tapped to supply a mission equipment package for the U.S. Army’s Initial Maneuver Short-Range Air Defense platform. The company said Thursday its mission equipment system will be installed on the Stryker A1 vehicle to provide brigade combat units with a capability to detect, track and counter threats associated with fixed- wing, […] More
Amazon Web Services kicked off its two-day Public Sector Summit on June 20 in Washington, D.C., and Teresa Carlson, vice president of AWS worldwide public sector, welcomed approximately 9,000 attendees to the event. One of the highlights of the summit is the launch of a cloud computing degree by Northern Virginia Community College in partnership with […] More
Maxar Technologies’ SSL subsidiary built and provided the transceiver assembly components for a pair of Microwave Ranging Instruments that took off in May as part of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow-On mission of NASA and the German Research Center for Geosciences. Al Tadros, vice president of SSL’s space infrastructure and civil space, wrote […] More
