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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 new Splunk study has found that at least 60 percent of information technology executives in the public sector said they are less confident in executing tasks in various areas of IT operations than they did in the past year. Those areas include management of complexity and scale of IT operations, immediate identification of root […] More
FireEye has received Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification to offer a cloud-based email security service offering to federal agencies. The FedRAMP moderate-impact level authorization seeks to facilitate the adoption of FireEye Government Email Threat Prevention by federal agencies to protect against email-based attacks as they move to cloud environments, the company said Tuesday. FireEye […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton and Splunk have teamed up to offer an analytics-based cybersecurity service designed to help organizations detect and protect networks from potential cyber attacks. The Booz Allen Cyber4Sight for Splunk service offering works to provide threat intelligence data to security analysts through the combination of analytics-based insights from Splunk Enterprise Security platform and […] More
A new Onvia report revealed a 5.4 percent annual increase in the volume of bids and requests for proposals in the state, local and education government marketplace in the second quarter of 2017. The “State & Local Procurement Snapshot for Q2 2017â€Â report showed that local agencies saw a 7.2 percent rise in the number of published solicitations, while […] More
Australia has picked two industry teams to compete for a program that seeks to expand and update the country’s networked simulation capability in support of virtual, live and constructive integration, Shephard Media reported Monday. The Australian defense force downselected the consortia led by Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman for the JP 9711 Core Simulation Capability program. […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has highlighted new policies initiated by leaders of the Defense Department and other federal agencies to facilitate partnership with the commercial satellite communications sector and maintain the country’s superiority in space. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a Space News op-ed piece published Monday that one of those […] More
General Dynamics’ subsidiary Gulfstream Aerospace has begun to consider the requirements for special mission aircraft as it competes for the U.S. Air Force’s Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System recapitalization program and Compass Call electronic attack airframe initiative, Defense News reported Monday. “Ultimately the decision has to be made using the processes that they use for […] More
Orbital ATKÂ has demonstrated the common fuze for a medium caliber round fired from its M230 Link Fed Bushmaster Chain Gun during the Bushmaster User Conference at Big Sandy Range in Arizona. The company said Monday it used the common fuze approach in both 30mm and 40mm programmable air-bursting rounds and expects the fuze to support […] More
BAE Systems has received a potential $598,000 grant from the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership to design and develop an unmanned maritime systems testing service in the U.K. BAE said Sunday it will collaborate with Blue Bear Systems Research, ASV Global, SeeByte, Marine Electronic Systems and the University of Southampton on the new service that will […] More
Buchanan & Edwards has received a contract to provide information technology infrastructure and integration services for the U.S. Library of Congress to support the federal institution’s migration to Microsoft‘s ServiceNow platform. BE said Thursday migrating from the IT Service Management system to ServiceNow will work to help the library simplify its process for managing technology applications. Dennis Kelly, BE president […] More
A Dell Technologies subsidiary has introduced an air gap version of its enterprise endpoint security platform designed to help organizations isolate endpoint devices from the internet and protect such devices from cyber threats. Dell’s Endpoint Security Suite Enterprise offering is an on-premises tool that works to protect data from insider threats, malware and zero-day attacks, the […] More
The U.S. Air Force will hold an industry day on July 20 in El Segundo, California, to update potential vendors on the acquisition strategy for the Phase 2 competition to produce up to 22 GPS III satellites. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice published Monday the event also aims to seek industry feedback […] More
