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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.
Lockheed Martin has wrapped up two flight tests of the updated Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in order to verify and demonstrate the missile’s GPS anti-jam software and hardware systems. JASSM missiles launched from B-52 and B-2 bomber aircraft at an altitude of at least 24,000 feet and […] More
Industry officials told lawmakers at a House Homeland Security Committee’s cybersecurity panel hearing Thursday that that U.S. government is hesitant to facilitate cyber threat data sharing with stakeholders in the private sector, Nextgov reported Thursday. Scott Montgomery, a vice president at Intel Security, told House committee members that U.S. government investigators’ reluctance to share threat data […] More
Hughes Network Systems’ Rick Lober has said the backlog of launches faced by space launch service providers has raised concerns among commercial satellite operators that work to provide global communications support to military clients, National Defense reported Wednesday. “There are more [satellites] going up so that is fueling demand and there have been a few […] More
Saab has received a potential $11.6 million contract to deliver RBS 70 very short-range air defense systems to the Brazilian army. The company will also supply man-portable launchers, training simulators, night vision tools, multispectral camouflage for the air defense systems and related equipment for maintainers and operators, Saab said Monday. Saab will perform deliveries through […] More
Germany plans to buy three Northrop Grumman-built Triton unmanned aerial vehicles from the U.S. Navy for use in signal intelligence operations of its armed forces, Defense News reported Wednesday. The inspector general with Germany’s armed forces Bundeswehr said the country’s military aims to procure the first Triton UAV in 2025 and the other two drones by […] More
A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has received a contract to continue to provide acquisition technical support services to the Defense Department’s joint program executive office for chemical and biological defense. HII’s technical solutions division secured four procurement technical support task orders under JPEO-CBD’s Omnibus Program, Engineering and Technical Support indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, HII said Tuesday. HII Technical […] More
India’s navy has issued a request for information for a program that seeks to purchase approximately $1.5 billion in short-range surface-to-air missile platforms in an effort to replace its Israel-made Barak-1 air defense systems, Defense News reported Wednesday. Vivek Raghuvanshi writes the Indian navy plans to release a tender after six months through the Make […] More
The Defense Department has partnered with SSPC: The Society for Protective Coatings and NACE International to release a new standard on corrosion prevention and control planning. “The new Corrosion Prevention and Control Planning standard will allow the DoD to facilitate the inclusion of corrosion-planning requirements in new contracts as it designs, acquires, and sustains new weapon systems […] More
Steve Bennett, director of global government practice at SAS, has said the Trump administration should work to implement initiatives that seek to increase technology use within the federal government and one of those is to advance “government data transparency.†Bennett wrote in an FCW commentary published Tuesday that the current administration should promote “access to […] More
Vectrus has disclosed that the U.S. government has called off the solicitation for a security and base operations services recompete contract in support of U.S. Army facilities in Kuwait due to changes in mission requirements. The company is the current contractor on the Kuwait Base Operations and Security Support Services contract that is set to expire […] More
The Defense Department has awarded FLIR Systems a potential $54.2 million delivery order to supply 50 sets of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear dismounted reconnaissance toolkits to the U.S. Army. The order is part of DoD’s five-year, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that seeks to support the DR-SKO program of record of the joint program executive office for […] More
A new Tripwire survey says 80 percent of security professionals have expressed more concern on cybersecurity in 2017 than in the previous year. Tripwire said Monday it polled at least 200 security professionals at the RSA Conference 2017 and found that only 17 percent are confident in the U.S. government’s capacity to safeguard itself from potential cyber attacks. […] More
