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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.
Jennifer Chronis, general manager for the Defense Department market at Amazon Web Services, has said there are five ways how cloud platforms could benefit DoD and service personnel and one of those is security. Chronis wrote in an article published in the March 2017 issue of the National Defense magazine that there has been “widespread recognition†in […] More
Poland aims to finalize a potential $7.5 billion deal by November to procure eight Raytheon-built Patriot air-and-missile defense system batteries from the U.S. government in support of the Polish government’s Wisla program, Defense News reported Friday. Jen Judson writes Poland filed a revised letter of request with the U.S. to facilitate the delivery of the […] More
Tony Moraco, CEO of Science Applications International Corp., has said he believes SAIC is “well-positioned†to provide offerings in the areas of information assurance and enterprise information technology as federal government clients work to address cyber threats and leverage cloud platforms. He told analysts Thursday at SAIC’s earnings call for fiscal year 2017’s fourth quarter that the […] More
The U.S. Air Force has launched a new program that seeks to research and develop technologies that will work to demonstrate the geolocation and identification of aerial and surface platforms through reception and display of communications, navigation and identification signals. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice published Wednesday the Radio Identification program is a […] More
John Parker, manager of tiltrotor business development at Boeing, has said the U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Air Force might consider upgrading their fleet of Bell Boeing-built V-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with new weapons such as lasers and sonic waves, DoD Buzz reported Thursday. Oriana Pawlyk writes Parker told reporters Tuesday that officials have evaluated AGM-176 Griffin missile, […] More
A new SolarWinds report shows that 96 percent of public sector organizations have moved information technology systems and applications to the cloud in the past 12 months. SolarWinds said Wednesday it polled 75 IT leaders and practitioners from public sector institutions in the U.S. and Canada in December 2016 and found that 75 percent of respondents allocate […] More
Hughes Network Systems has secured a spot on the General Services Administration’s Information Technology Schedule 70 contract vehicle to offer its satellite-based internet service to federal, local and state government agencies. The company said Thursday the HughesNet Gen5 service works to provide users with 25 megabits per second of download speeds and 3 Mbps of upload speeds as defined […] More
Airbus’ defense and space segment has selected a Northrop Grumman subsidiary to supply mesh reflectors for two of Inmarsat‘s communications satellites. Northrop’s Astro Aerospace business will provide its AstroMesh reflectors for integration with Inmarsat 6 satellites designed to provide L-band communication services, Northrop said Thursday. John Alvarez, general manager of Astro Aerospace, said the company’s […] More
Leonardo’s U.S.-based subsidiary DRS plans to establish a Tuskegee, Alabama-based facility to manufacture its proposed aircraft for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X trainer jet program. The Leonardo DRS-led industry team will set up its final assembly and manufacturing facility for its proposed T-100 Integrated Training System at Moton Field Municipal Airport in Tuskegee in an effort to leverage […] More
Amazon Web Services has received provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s joint authorization board for nine services designed for use in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region platform. The board issued the P-ATO approvals after it evaluated AWS’ cloud service offerings against FedRAMP’s high-impact level security requirements, AWS said Wednesday. AWS said AWS CloudFormation is one […] More
Northrop Grumman and Terma have signed an agreement that provides the latter an opportunity to manufacture additional components for the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II aircraft beyond the companies’ existing contracts. Jens Maaloe, Terma president and CEO, said in a statement released Wednesday the company has invested in its production and technology facilities in Denmark […] More
Cybernance has received the Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act award from the Department of Homeland Security for its cyber risk governance software platform. The SAFETY Act award seeks to certify Cybernance Platform as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology and provide sellers and users of the product with risk management and liability protection from third-party litigation should an act […] More
