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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.
CSG Government Solutions has secured a contract to help Idaho’s Department of Health and Welfare develop a request for proposal for the state’s Healthcare Analytics System. The department plans to deploy the Healthcare Analytics System in an effort to improve interconnectivity, analytics and information sharing between hospitals, healthcare insurance firms and private medical providers, CGS said […] More
Raytheon and United Arab Emirates-based boat maker Al Marakeb have formed a new joint venture to manufacture unmanned surface vehicles for use in international security and marine defense missions. The joint venture will focus on the production of surveillance buoys, H-series boats and other types of USVs, the companies said Sunday. Chris Davis, president of UAE […] More
The U.S. Navy expects the Raytheon-built Joint Standoff Weapon C-1Â to achieve initial operational capability by the end of March 2016 after the weapon system completed an initial operational test in February, Scout Warrior reported Wednesday. Kris Osborn writes JSOW C-1 is an air-to-ground weapon platform designed to be deployed from fighter jets such as F/A-18F […] More
AECOM will provide engineering support services to help build and operate a utility gas infrastructure in Alaska under an agreement with Alaska Intrastate Gas Co. The project will supply piped propane air mixture-based fuel to 17 southeastern communities in Alaska in order to meet the residents’ electricity generation, heating and industrial process demands, AECOM said Friday. […] More
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division and the U.S. Coast Guard held a keel authentication ceremony for the service branch’s seventh Legend-class National Security Cutter at the company’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, Friday. Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft served as the keynote speaker during the ceremony for the NSC Kimball (WMSL 756), HII said Friday. The […] More
Cobham’s satellite communications business has teamed up with four companies to draft the Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certificate to facilitate the use of the Aviator 300 SwiftBroadband system onboard Shenzhen Airlines’ Boeing 737-800 fleet The Cobham-built Aviator 300 terminal has an intermediate gain antenna and works to support broadband connectivity with data transmission of up to 332 […] More
The U.S. Air Force has put the second Boeing-built KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft through its first flight test nearly two months after the company completed an initial refueling test of the first tanker with an F-16 jet. Boeing test pilots carried out operational checks on the plane’s flight controls, engines and environmental systems after the aircraft […] More
Global Technology Resources Inc. has forged a strategic cyber alliance with Ziften and Root9B to help government and commercial clients detect and mitigate threats to their information technology systems. The companies will combine their cyber risk mitigation platforms and services and will work to build up their service delivery and integration models in an effort to […] More
KPMG and nonprofit organization (ISC)2 have teamed up to poll government information security leaders on cybersecurity issues within the federal government. The survey will ask federal executives with data security responsibilities, chief information officers and chief information security officers on how they plan to implement the Cybersecurity National Action Plan, (ISC)2 said Wednesday. The survey will also […] More
Police officers in San Bernardino County in California used a Thomson Reuters-built investigative platform to locate the suspects involved in a terrorist attack at a county training seminar on Dec. 2, the San Bernardino Sun reported Wednesday. Doug Saunders writes the police officers used Clear, an online database that works to help law enforcement and […] More
A General Dynamics business unit has received a multi-year contract from Smith & Wesson to manufacture hammer-forged gun barrels for integration with the latter’s M&P pistol. General Dynamics Ordnance and Tactical Systems will produce the gun barrels for the pistol that Smith & Wesson proposed to the U.S. Army in order to compete for the […] More
The U.S. Postal Service has asked industry to provide information on a centralized analytics software platform that will work to carry out machine learning methods and provide USPS data-driven insights for use in decision-making. USPS said in a FedBizOpps notice published Feb. 16 that it will consider commercial-off-the-shelf analytics tools that can be customized to […] More
