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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.
Cisco has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia in an effort to facilitate adoption of digital platforms in the country. The company will help Saudi Arabia develop its information, communication and technology infrastructure as well share its experience and skills in the implementation of digital government and connected education and healthcare programs through the memorandum […] More
NASAÂ will subject the booster for a Boeing-built rocket to a second ground qualification test on June 28 at an Orbital ATKÂ facility in Utah. The space agency will broadcast Tuesday the live coverage of the two-minute booster test for the Space Launch System via NASA Television and then conduct a media teleconference to evaluate the live-fire […] More
Boeing has unveiled a new facility in Houston designed to allow NASA astronauts and mission control staff to train on various space flight operations through a simulator, the Houston Business Journal reported Wednesday. The company’s Space Training, Analysis and Review facility that officially opened Tuesday is built to facilitate crew training operations for the Boeing-built CST-100 […] More
The U.S. Army has awarded STG Group a potential $11 million contract to provide information technology support services for the service branch’s civilian information services division. The 23-month contract covers data management, software engineering, training, quality assurance, system security, software application support, backup and recovery assistance, and software integration services to CISD, the company said […] More
Orbital ATK‘s Cygnus spacecraft re-entered Earth’s atmosphere Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. Eastern Time after it performed three in-orbit scientific missions and delivered approximately 7,900 pounds of scientific experiments and crew supplies to the International Space Station. The atmospheric re-entry of the space vehicle, also known as S.S. Rick Husband, loaded with 4,087 pounds of items for disposal marks the company’s […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton has launched a set of security platforms designed to help government agencies and companies protect data workloads and applications in cloud environments from potential cyber attacks. The company’s Virtual Cloud Defense consists of open source-based, commercial-off-the-shelf platforms that work to help users implement security controls and perform situational awareness operations, Booz Allen […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct a workshop in Southbridge, Massachusetts, on June 29 to discuss a program that seeks to develop medicines designed to retain potency for long periods of time amid exposure to extreme conditions on the battlefield. DARPA said Tuesday researchers under the Fold F(x) program aim to design biotherapeutics and […] More
Unisys has achieved Amazon Web Services’ Government Competency designation in recognition of the former company’s efforts to deliver cloud-based platforms to federal, local and state government agencies through AWS. Unisys said Monday the designation is part of the AWS Competency Program designed to recognize corporate partners that have showed technical proficiency in the deployment of […] More
Xerox will provide operational and managed business platforms and services to government agencies and educational institutions under a contract awarded through cooperative purchasing organization National IPA/TCPN. The Region 4 Education Service Center awarded the national cooperative contract to Xerox’s public sector solutions business after a competitive solicitation process, the company said Monday. The contract covers customer service, […] More
Raytheon plans to recruit more than 140 employees in Pensacola, Florida, under a $1 billion cyber system support contract with the Department of Homeland Security, The Pulse reported Friday. Raytheon will conduct an open house in Pensacola to look for cybersecurity professionals, information technicians and systems engineers in support of the contract, Drew Buchanan writes. […] More
Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos, has begun to conduct town hall” meetings to brief approximately 16,000 employees of Lockheed Martin’s information systems and global solutions business about IS&GS’ impending merger with Leidos, Forbes reported Friday. Loren Thompson writes such efforts by Krone, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2016, aim to explain his company’s strategy behind […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has asked industry to submit research proposals for the Software Testbed part of the Hallmark program that seeks to develop new technology platforms for U.S. space command and control. DARPA said in a broad agency announcement published Friday on FedBizOpps the Hallmark-ST effort aims to design, build and maintain an enterprise software […] More
