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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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  • Air Force Taps iGov for Humvee Mobile Comms System Delivery Order; Chuck Reiche Comments
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    Air Force Taps iGov for Humvee Mobile Comms System Delivery Order; Chuck Reiche Comments

    Reston, Virginia-based information technology services provider iGov has received a potential five-year, $52.5 million delivery order from the U.S. Air Force to provide tactical air control party users with a mobile communications system through modifications to an armored vehicle. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center issued the delivery order under a previously awarded indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity […] More

  • Lockheed PAC-3 Missile Interceptor Reaches IOC Status; Scott Arnold Comments
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    Lockheed PAC-3 Missile Interceptor Reaches IOC Status; Scott Arnold Comments

    The Lockheed Martin-built PAC-3 Missile Segment Enhancement interceptor has received initial operational capability designation from the U.S. Army. The company’s PAC-3 MSE achieved the IOC status two years after Lockheed obtained  milestone C approval for the missile interception system and received its initial contract for the technology from the service branch in 2014, Lockheed said Tuesday. Scott […] More

  • Elbit Systems Launches Mini Drone for Maritime ISR Applications; Elad Aharonson Comments
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    Elbit Systems Launches Mini Drone for Maritime ISR Applications; Elad Aharonson Comments

    Elbit Systems has introduced a mini unmanned aerial system designed to help small vessels perform maritime intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and target acquisition operations. The company’s Skylark C UAS has an electro-optical payload, thermal imager, inertial navigation system and a color daylight camera designed for use in daytime and night-time surveillance missions, Elbit Systems said Tuesday. […] More

  • General Atomics Conducts Drone-Based Missile Detection Test at Pacific Dragon Exercise
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    General Atomics Conducts Drone-Based Missile Detection Test at Pacific Dragon Exercise

    General Atomics used its remotely piloted aircraft to perform a ballistic missile tracking test as part of a three-day biennial exercise held in June in Kauai, Hawaii. Two General Atomics Aeronautical Systems-built Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper used in the Pacific Dragon exercise have Raytheon-made Multi-spectral Targeting Systems-B electro-optical infrared turret systems that work to detect and monitor […] More

  • AT&T Unveils Service to Facilitate Land Mobile Radio Interoperability for First Responders
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    AT&T Unveils Service to Facilitate Land Mobile Radio Interoperability for First Responders

    AT&T has launched an internet protocol-based, open standard connectivity service that seeks to facilitate interoperability for land mobile radio systems used as communication tools by first responders, public departments and transportation agencies. AT&T’s Inter-RF Subsystem Interface complies with the APCO Project 25 connectivity standard for public safety networks and is designed to help users link […] More

  • Inovio Kicks Off 2nd Stage of Phase 1 Human Trials of Ebola DNA Vaccine; J. Joseph Kim Comments
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    Inovio Kicks Off 2nd Stage of Phase 1 Human Trials of Ebola DNA Vaccine; J. Joseph Kim Comments

    Inovio Pharmaceuticals has begun to enroll 125 individuals for the second stage of the Phase 1 clinical trial of its Ebola DNA vaccine candidate in an effort to evaluate how the vaccine generates immune responses. Inovio tested the INO-4212 vaccine in 75 healthy volunteers during the first clinical trial’s initial stage and found that 100 percent […] More

  • Air Force Seeks White Papers for Nuclear C3 Tech Devt Program
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    Air Force Seeks White Papers for Nuclear C3 Tech Devt Program

    The U.S. Air Force has asked industry to submit white papers for a potential four-year, $8.06 million program that seeks to develop, integrate and evaluate platforms and methods designed to update the service branch’s nuclear command, control and communication systems. The service branch said in a broad agency announcement posted Thursday on FedBizOpps the NC3 program […] More

  • DHS Taps 13 Small Firms to Develop Cybersecurity Platforms
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    DHS Taps 13 Small Firms to Develop Cybersecurity Platforms

    Thirteen small businesses have received $1.3 million in total preliminary funds from the Department of Homeland Security to develop cybersecurity tools and related methods across four research topics. DHS’ science and technology directorate made the awards through the Small Business Innovation Research program, the department said Friday. Celerity Government Solutions, Digital Bazaar, Narf Industries and Respect […] More

  • Saab to Deliver Carl-Gustaf Ammo to Swedish Army; Gorgen Johansson Comments
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    Saab to Deliver Carl-Gustaf Ammo to Swedish Army; Gorgen Johansson Comments

    Saab has received a potential $14.5 million order to supply Carl-Gustaf weapon system ammunition to the Swedish army. The Swedish defense material administration, FMV, made the contract award and expects deliveries to conclude in 2017, Saab said Tuesday. Gorgen Johansson, head of Saab’s dynamics business area, said the order covers the delivery of both training and […] More

  • Cobham-Kapsch Team Fields TETRA Comms Network at Rio de Janeiro Metro Railway Line
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    Cobham-Kapsch Team Fields TETRA Comms Network at Rio de Janeiro Metro Railway Line

    Cobham and telecommunications infrastructure provider Kapsch have installed a terrestrial trunked radio network on a new Metro railway line in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in an effort to provide communications services to emergency services and rail transport staff in support of the 2016 Olympics. The TETRA network installed at Rio de Janeiro’s Metro Line 4 route […] More

  • SRI International Launches Agriculture Tech Firm Abundant Robotics; Dan Steere Comments
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    SRI International Launches Agriculture Tech Firm Abundant Robotics; Dan Steere Comments

    SRI International has spun off and unveiled an agriculture firm that aims to automate fruit harvesting operations through robotics. Abundant Robotics will leverage SRI’s agricultural robotics research efforts in order to commercialize systems intended for orchard agriculture automation, SRI International said Wednesday. “The first automated apple harvesting system that doesn’t bruise or damage the produce will […] More

  • Air Force Seeks to Increase Radio Signal Range Through CubeSat-Delivered Plasma
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    Air Force Seeks to Increase Radio Signal Range Through CubeSat-Delivered Plasma

    The U.S. Air Force has awarded contracts to three teams to perform research and development work on long-range radio communications through the use of small satellites or CubeSats designed to release plasma bombs in the ionosphere, New Scientist reported Tuesday. David Hambling writes General Sciences and Drexel University have teamed up to develop a technique that […] More