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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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  • Veris Group Concludes FedRAMP High-Impact Level Assessment of 3 New AWS GovCloud (US) Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    Veris Group Concludes FedRAMP High-Impact Level Assessment of 3 New AWS GovCloud (US) Services

    Veris Group, which now operates under cyber risk management services provider Coalfire, has completed the review of three additional service offerings within Amazon Web Services’ GovCloud (US) platform as a third-party independent assessment organization for AWS under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Coalfire said Tuesday the Amazon CloudWatch Logs, AWS CloudTrail and Amazon Relational […] More

  • Foundations, Investors, Academic Institutions Seek to Advance Ethics in AI Devt Via $27M Fund - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Industry News, News

    Foundations, Investors, Academic Institutions Seek to Advance Ethics in AI Devt Via $27M Fund

    LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Omidyar Network and other institutions have created a potential $27 million fund that seeks to consider ethical and accountability issues in research and development of artificial intelligence. The MIT Media Lab and Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society will act as […] More

  • Navy Eyes Modification for BAE Electromagnetic Railgun Pulsed Power Tech Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Eyes Modification for BAE Electromagnetic Railgun Pulsed Power Tech Contract

    The U.S. Navy plans to award a contract modification to BAE Systems to continue development work on a pulsed power system for the service branch’s electromagnetic railgun, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes Naval Sea Systems Command officials said the sole-source contract to be awarded to BAE’s platforms and services business segment will also cover […] More

  • Report: Navy Explores Flight III Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Contract Options - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy Explores Flight III Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer Contract Options

    The U.S. Navy has begun to consider whether to switch to Huntington Ingalls Industries to build the Flight III version of the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer due to a disagreement between the service branch and a General Dynamics subsidiary over a fixed-price contract, Defense News reported Sunday. Christopher P. Cavas writes General Dynamics’ Bath […] More

  • Vanilla Aircraft Demos Diesel-Powered Drone Built Through DARPA-Backed Project - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Vanilla Aircraft Demos Diesel-Powered Drone Built Through DARPA-Backed Project

    Falls Church, Virginia-based Vanilla Aircraft has developed and demonstrated a small unmanned aerial vehicle as part of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-sponsored small business project. The VA001 drone took off on Nov. 30 and flew for 56 hours near Las Cruces International Airport in New Mexico before it landed on Dec. 2 containing at […] More

  • Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Unveils On-Demand Cloud Computing Service Built on Red Hat’s Open-Source Platforms - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Unveils On-Demand Cloud Computing Service Built on Red Hat’s Open-Source Platforms

    Cambridge, England-based genome research organization Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has begun to offer “science-as-a-service” offering built on Red Hat’s OpenStack and CloudForms open-source technology platforms. The science-as-a-service offering works to standardize the institute’s cloud computing services, facilitate collaboration with biotechnology startups and help users run diverse workloads in cloud environments, Red Hat said Wednesday. Red […] More

  • Yahsat Seeks to Expand Y1B Satellite Broadband Services Via Hughes-Built VSAT Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Yahsat Seeks to Expand Y1B Satellite Broadband Services Via Hughes-Built VSAT Platform

    Al Yah Satellite Communications has placed an order for the Hughes Network Systems-built very small aperture terminal in an effort to expand Yahsat’s broadband services and other offerings delivered through its Ka-band Y1B satellite. The Hughes-built Jupiter System is a VSAT platform that integrates the DVB-S2X air interface standard through the company’s second-generation system-on-a-chip, a very large […] More

  • Palo Alto Networks’ Pamela Warren: Agencies Should Adopt Automation to Prevent Cyber Attacks - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    Palo Alto Networks’ Pamela Warren: Agencies Should Adopt Automation to Prevent Cyber Attacks

    Pamela Warren, director of government and industry solutions at Palo Alto Networks, has said government agencies should adopt automation in an effort to protect networks from emerging cyber threats and predict cyber attackers’ actions. Warren wrote in a FedTech Magazine article published Tuesday that a recent Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity report also recommended the […] More

  • Report: India to Seek Bids from Foreign Firms for Single-Engine Fighter Jet Production Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: India to Seek Bids from Foreign Firms for Single-Engine Fighter Jet Production Contract

    India plans to invite international contractors to submit bids for a program to build a new single-engine fighter aircraft in the country, Defense News reported Tuesday. Manohar Parrikar, India’s defense minister, said at a news conference that the government will select a foreign partner to produce the fighter jet based on technology transfer terms and […] More

  • DLT, Evident.io Forge AWS Cloud Security Partnership for Govt Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Government Cloud, News

    DLT, Evident.io Forge AWS Cloud Security Partnership for Govt Clients

    DLT Solutions and Evident.io have teamed up to offer a tool designed to help government clients secure their cloud infrastructure. Both companies will provide public sector clients with the Evident Security Platform that works to assess security misconfigurations and detect vulnerabilities in Amazon Web Services public cloud environments through collection and analysis of application programming […] More

  • Northrop Gets $63M in Air Force KC-10 Engine Overhaul, Logistics Delivery Orders - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Gets $63M in Air Force KC-10 Engine Overhaul, Logistics Delivery Orders

    Northrop Grumman has received a pair of delivery orders worth nearly $63 million combined to provide engine overhaul and logistics support services for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-10 tanker aircraft program. The company will overhaul 10 KC-10 engines in Vancouver, British Columbia, through Dec. 31, 2018 under a potential $45 million delivery order to a previously […] More

  • SpaceX Sets Jan. 8 Launch for Iridium NEXT Satellites - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SpaceX Sets Jan. 8 Launch for Iridium NEXT Satellites

    SpaceX has said it plans to launch on Jan. 8 the first batch of satellites for Iridium Communications’ NEXT constellation after it determined the cause of the Sept. 1 explosion of the Falcon 9 rocket, the Washington Post reported Monday. Christian Davenport writes the Elon Musk-owned company found that the explosion was caused by a pressure vessel in the […] More