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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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  • Intelsat, General Atomics Test MQ-9 Drone’s Beam Switching Capability Via Satellite Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intelsat, General Atomics Test MQ-9 Drone’s Beam Switching Capability Via Satellite Platform

    General Atomics and an Intelsat subsidiary have conducted tests to demonstrate the compatibility of a satellite platform with the beam switching functionality of an unmanned aerial system. The General Atomics Aeronautical Systems-built Block 5 Predator B/MQ-9 UAS was able to transition between the two spot beams on one of Intelsat EpicNG satellites – Intelsat 29e – […] More

  • Accenture Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization for Cloud-Based Analytics Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    Accenture Gets FedRAMP Provisional Authorization for Cloud-Based Analytics Platform

    Accenture‘s federal services business has received a provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Joint Authorization Board for a platform-as-a-service cloud offering. The Accenture Insights Platform for Government is a cloud-based tool that works to provide agencies with analytics, data access and visualization functionalities to help accelerate the development and deployment of analytics-driven platforms, […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Completes Free Flight Test on Dream Chaser Test Spacecraft - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sierra Nevada Completes Free Flight Test on Dream Chaser Test Spacecraft

    Sierra Nevada Corp. has conducted a free flight test of a spacecraft designed to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services 2 contract. The Dream Chaser test spacecraft was air-lifted by a Columbia 234-UT Chinook helicopter before the space vehicle performed a pre-planned flight and autonomous landing operation […] More

  • DXC Picks New Orleans as Site for Digital Transformation Hub - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DXC Picks New Orleans as Site for Digital Transformation Hub

    DXC Technology intends to set up a new center in New Orleans, Louisiana, to support the development and delivery of cloud computing, data analytics, cybersecurity, applications, intelligent automation and other digital platforms and services to customers worldwide. The company said Monday it expects the Digital Transformation Center to generate approximately 2,000 employees in the next five […] More

  • Red Hat, Radiance Partner on Air Force Cloud Migration Project; Paul Smith Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Radiance Partner on Air Force Cloud Migration Project; Paul Smith Comments

    Radiance Technologies has partnered with Red Hat to deliver a scalable cloud platform to the Defense Department. Radiance used Red Hat’s hybrid cloud offering to help a U.S. Air Force organization transition workloads to a scalable cloud infrastructure under a task order with DoD, Red Hat said Tuesday. Red Hat Cloud Suite is designed to […] More

  • Lockheed to Build Aerial High-Energy Laser Weapon Under Air Force Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed to Build Aerial High-Energy Laser Weapon Under Air Force Contract

    Lockheed Martin has received a $26.3 million contract from the Air Force Research Laboratory to design, develop and produce a high-energy fiber laser weapon system. AFRL plans to test the weapon system aboard a tactical fighter aircraft by 2021 as part of the Self-protect High Energy Laser Demonstrator program, Lockheed said Monday. The SHiELD program […] More

  • CSRA Launches Virtual Center to Offer Cyber Support for Public Sector Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    CSRA Launches Virtual Center to Offer Cyber Support for Public Sector Clients

    CSRA has unveiled a new virtual center that seeks to deliver cybersecurity capabilities, innovation and consulting support to government clients. Keith Alexander, a retired U.S. Army general and former National Security Agency director, delivered a keynote speech Thursday during the launch of the company’s Cyber Center of Excellence in Tysons Corner, Virginia, CSRA said Friday. […] More

  • Amazon Unveils New R&D Facility in UK - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Unveils New R&D Facility in UK

    Amazon has opened a new 60,000-square-foot facility in Cambridge, England, that will house approximately 400 employees to perform research and development work on various technology platforms. The Amazon Development Center Cambridge is the second R&D facility the company established in the U.K. and will accommodate machine learning professionals, data scientists, software engineers, mathematical modelers and […] More

  • Ken Asbury: CACI Eyes Machine Learning, EW Tech Investments for Intell Market Push - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ken Asbury: CACI Eyes Machine Learning, EW Tech Investments for Intell Market Push

    Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, has said the company plans to build up its products through investments in machine learning, electronic warfare and other technology capabilities that he thinks could help expand CACI’s offerings for the intelligence services market, CRN reported Thursday. Asbury said Thursday at the Arlington, Virginia-based defense information technology […] More

  • Report: Lockheed Invests in Startups to Back Nanosatellite, Cyber Devt for Defense Applications - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Lockheed Invests in Startups to Back Nanosatellite, Cyber Devt for Defense Applications

    Lockheed Martin has made approximately $100 million in investments in 22 commercial technology startups since the defense contractor established its venture capital arm in 2007, CNBC reported Thursday. Lockheed Martin Ventures has invested this year in early-stage start-ups that work on technologies in the areas of cybersecurity, autonomous technology and nanosatellites and those companies include […] More

  • Radiant Solutions’ Tony Frazier: AI, Big Data Analytics Can Help Uncover Insights From Remote Sensing Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Radiant Solutions’ Tony Frazier: AI, Big Data Analytics Can Help Uncover Insights From Remote Sensing Data

    Tony Frazier, president of Radiant Solutions, told Trajectory Magazine in an interview published Wednesday one of the trends he sees in the remote sensing sector is the capability to leverage technologies such as big data analytics and artificial intelligence to generate insights from collected data. “The bottleneck is going to be how we can extract […] More

  • CACI Lands CBP Air, Marine Surveillance System Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CACI Lands CBP Air, Marine Surveillance System Support Task Order; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a potential four-year, $34.5 million contract from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to update, operate and maintain the agency’s Air and Marine Operations Surveillance System. AMOSS works to help CBP’s air and marine operations center perform aerial and marine surveillance operations across U.S. borders and other western hemisphere, CACI said […] More