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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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  • Microsoft Launches 365 Package for US Govt Cloud Environments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Launches 365 Package for US Govt Cloud Environments

    Microsoft has made its Microsoft 365 package available for U.S. government cloud environments. Josh Rice, general manager of Microsoft’s worldwide modern workplace, wrote in a news release published Monday the Microsoft 356 package includes Windows 10, Enterprise Mobility + Security and Office 365 offerings designed to help government agencies meet U.S. security and compliance requirements. Microsoft […] More

  • Jim Centore: Blue Origin to Continue BE-4 Rocket Engine Tests - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jim Centore: Blue Origin to Continue BE-4 Rocket Engine Tests

    Jim Centore, group lead for orbital mission operations at Blue Origin, has said the company started to run tests on its BE-4 rocket engine in October 2017 at its facility in West Texas and will continue the testing phase over the next several months, SpaceNews reported Saturday. “We’re getting longer duration burn times. We’re going […] More

  • BAE's US Subsidiary Responds to Army Mobile Protected Firepower Vehicle RFP - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE’s US Subsidiary Responds to Army Mobile Protected Firepower Vehicle RFP

    BAE Systems has proposed a combat vehicle for the U.S. Army’s Mobile Protected Firepower program. The MPF program seeks to provide the service’s infantry brigade combat teams with a precision firepower capability and help IBCTs maneuver through various terrain conditions, BAE said Thursday. Jim Miller, director of business development at BAE’s combat vehicles business, said the […] More

  • Barry Pike: Army Eyes Stryker as Base Platform for Temporary Short-Range Air Defense System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Barry Pike: Army Eyes Stryker as Base Platform for Temporary Short-Range Air Defense System

    Barry Pike, program executive officer for missiles and space at the U.S. Army, has said the service considers using the Stryker combat vehicle as the basis for its provisional Manuever-Short-Range Air Defense system in response to a SHORAD capability gap identified in Europe in 2016, Defense News reported Thursday. “At this point it’s going to be […] More

  • Intel’s Melvin Greer: Ethical Standard Needed to Prevent AI Tech Abuse - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel’s Melvin Greer: Ethical Standard Needed to Prevent AI Tech Abuse

    Melvin Greer, chief data scientist for Intel’s public sector, has said developers of artificial intelligence platforms should follow an ethical standard when it comes to programming behavior in order to prevent AI technologies from being weaponized, Bisnow reported Wednesday. “The brake has to be applied by humans,” Greer said Tuesday during a panel discussion at […] More

  • IBM’s Christopher Padilla: Firms Should Keep Society’s Trust in Tech Platforms Through Responsibility - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM’s Christopher Padilla: Firms Should Keep Society’s Trust in Tech Platforms Through Responsibility

    Christopher Padilla, vice president for government and regulatory affairs at IBM, has said he believes that technology companies should take responsibility for new tech platforms they introduce and for the impact such platforms have on the society. “We also believe that responsible technology companies should be in the lead as governments consider common-sense changes to […] More

  • Report: Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone Eyes Recommendation on Cybercom-NSA Split Once Confirmed - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone Eyes Recommendation on Cybercom-NSA Split Once Confirmed

    Lt. Gen. Paul Nakasone, the White House’s nominee to lead the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, has said he intends to offer a recommendation about the plan to split Cybercom from NSA within three months of his confirmation for the dual-hatted role, Nextgov reported Thursday. Nakasone, current head of the Army Cyber Command, […] More

  • Steven Walker: DARPA to Leverage Funding Boost to Back Hypersonic Tech Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Steven Walker: DARPA to Leverage Funding Boost to Back Hypersonic Tech Development

    Steven Walker, director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has said the budget increase would help DARPA advance the development of new technology platforms designed to build up deterrence and homeland defense capabilities amid competition with countries such as Russia and China, DoD News reported Thursday. Walker, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, said DARPA has […] More

  • Rep. Gerry Connolly Calls for Inquiry Into GSA’s Decision on FBI HQ Consolidation Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Rep. Gerry Connolly Calls for Inquiry Into GSA’s Decision on FBI HQ Consolidation Project

    Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Virginia) has asked the office of the General Services Administration’s inspector general to conduct an inquiry into GSA’s decision to call off its plans for a new consolidated FBI headquarters. He wrote a letter Wednesday to GSA IG Carol Ochoa to investigate the factors agency officials used to arrive at a decision to cancel the […] More

  • ULA Launches Lockheed-Built GOES-S Weather Satellite for NOAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches Lockheed-Built GOES-S Weather Satellite for NOAA

    A weather satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration took off Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S system will be called GOES-17 once it reaches the geostationary orbit within two weeks and will undergo a checkout and validation phase […] More

  • Cubic-Thales Team to Bid for UK Joint Fires Synthetic Training Project; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic-Thales Team to Bid for UK Joint Fires Synthetic Training Project; Dave Buss Comments

    Cubic’s global defense business and Thales have partnered to compete for the U.K. defense ministry’s Joint Fires Synthetic Training project. Cubic said Thursday the JFST project is part of the Training and Simulation Systems Program and seeks to provide joint fires systems to support the training of the British armed forces across ground, aerial and littoral […] More

  • Industry Urges DHS to Standardize Contractor Vetting Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Urges DHS to Standardize Contractor Vetting Process

    Some industry representatives have called on Congress to help the Department of Homeland Security standardize and streamline the vetting and security clearance process for government contracting personnel, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Industry stakeholders told lawmakers Tuesday at a House Homeland Security’s oversight and management efficiency subpanel hearing that DHS leaders should advance the implementation […] More