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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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  • Thales-Ultra Electronics ATS Team Lands GSA Contract to Update DoD Link-16 Pulse Deconfliction Server - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales-Ultra Electronics ATS Team Lands GSA Contract to Update DoD Link-16 Pulse Deconfliction Server

    Thales will work with Ultra Electronics Advanced Tactical Systems to provide a software platform and update the Defense Department’s Link-16 Pulse Deconfliction Server under a contract awarded by the General Services Administration. The Thales-built Web Reference Architecture software will work to help DoD schedule the operations of Link-16 terminal radios and related systems in compliance with spectrum certification requirements, Thales said […] More

  • General Atomics to Supply Reaper Drones to Spain; Linden Blue Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics to Supply Reaper Drones to Spain; Linden Blue Comments

    Spain’s defense ministry has placed an order for four General Atomics-built Predator B/MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles through a $243 million foreign military sales agreement with the U.S. The contract also covers MTS-B electro-optical/infrared sensors, two Block 30 ground control stations, line-of-sight datalink platforms and Block 20A Lynx multi-mode radar for the Spanish armed forces, General […] More

  • Harris Gets Contract to Update Radio System for First Responders in Rockwall County, Texas - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Gets Contract to Update Radio System for First Responders in Rockwall County, Texas

    Harris Corp. has secured a contract to supply 900 mobile digital radios to Rockwall County, Texas in support of the jurisdiction’s efforts to update its radio platform for public safety operations. The contract is for the second phase of the APCO P25 project and covers the Harris-built XL-200P LTE-based radio, Symphony dispatch console platform and BeOn […] More

  • Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Applies Crowdsourcing, Deep-Learning Tools in Satellite Image Analysis - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Tony Frazier: DigitalGlobe Applies Crowdsourcing, Deep-Learning Tools in Satellite Image Analysis

    Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has said the company works to analyze large amounts of satellite images and data through deep-learning tools and crowdsourcing, GCN reported Wednesday. Frazier told GCN columnist Patrick Marshall in an interview that OpenCV computer vision software library, Caffe deep-learning framework and NVIDIA graphics processors are some of the deep-learning systems […] More

  • BAE Taps Mahindra to Build M777 Howitzer Production Facility in India - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Taps Mahindra to Build M777 Howitzer Production Facility in India

    BAE Systems has teamed up with automobile firm Mahindra to build a new facility in India that will be used to assemble, integrate and test the BAE-built M777 howitzers. BAE Systems’ move is in line with India’s plan to procure 145 M777A2 LW155 artillery guns for the Indian army through a foreign military sales contract with […] More

  • IARPA Seeks Inputs on Artificial Intelligence Training Resources - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IARPA Seeks Inputs on Artificial Intelligence Training Resources

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity has asked industry to provide information on training resources and data for algorithms that will work to help address artificial intelligence-related problems. IARPA said Feb. 12 in a FedBizOpps notice that it wants the AI research community to identify machine-learning problem domains that would benefit from new training resources. The […] More

  • Terry Halvorsen Orders Microsoft Windows 10 Updates on 4M DoD Seats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Terry Halvorsen Orders Microsoft Windows 10 Updates on 4M DoD Seats

    Terry Halvorsen, chief information officer of the Defense Department, has committed 4 million seats in the department’s efforts to upgrade its information systems and devices to the Microsoft-built Windows 10 operating system. Yusuf Mehdi, corporate vice president for Windows and devices group at Microsoft, writes in a blog entry posted Wednesday that the move aims to help DoD […] More

  • CenturyLink to Offer Government Cloud Service Via GSA Networx Vehicle; Tim Meehan Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CenturyLink to Offer Government Cloud Service Via GSA Networx Vehicle; Tim Meehan Comments

    CenturyLink will offer its cloud infrastructure-as-a-service product to federal agencies through the company’s position on the General Services Administration‘s Networx contract vehicle. CenturyLink Government Cloud works to help agencies move their data workloads to the cloud through the VMware-built vCloud Government Services IaaS platform, CenturyLink said Tuesday. Tim Meehan, senior vice president and general manager of CenturyLink’s federal business, said the […] More

  • Harris Lands Tactical Radio, Intercom System Supply Contract With Philippine Army; Brendan O’Connell Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Lands Tactical Radio, Intercom System Supply Contract With Philippine Army; Brendan O’Connell Comments

    Harris Corp. will supply tactical vehicular radios, handheld radios and intercom systems to the Philippines’ armed forces under a $12 million contract. The contract covers the provision of Falcon III RF-7800V Combat Net Radio, RF-7800I intercom systems and handheld Falcon RF-7800V VHF Combat Net Radio to the Philippine army’s light armored division, Harris said Tuesday. […] More

  • General Dynamics to Help QGroup Deploy Servers for German Military's IT Networks; Nadia Short Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Dynamics to Help QGroup Deploy Servers for German Military’s IT Networks; Nadia Short Comments

    General Dynamics will help implement and maintain QGroup-built servers in an effort to protect the German federal armed forces’ information technology networks from security vulnerabilities under a contract held by the latter company. The contract with Germany’s armed forces covers work to deploy of QTrust Server platform that runs on the General Dynamics-built PitBull Trusted Operating System, General Dynamics […] More

  • Army Requests Info on Consortium for DoD's C4, Cyber Platform Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Requests Info on Consortium for DoD’s C4, Cyber Platform Development

    The U.S. Army Contracting Command has sought information on a consortium with the capability to research and develop prototypes of command, control, communications, computer and cyber platforms for the Defense Department. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Feb. 3 the consortium will build prototypes under the “other transaction” agreement in order to reduce DoD’s dependence […] More

  • Navy Puts Raytheon’s Gliding Weapon Through Initial Operational Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Puts Raytheon’s Gliding Weapon Through Initial Operational Test

    The U.S. Navy has completed an initial operational test of a Raytheon-built gliding weapon during a live-fire test at China Lake in California. Raytheon’s Joint Standoff Weapon C-1 platform detected and neutralized its ground target after it was launched from an F/A-18F Super Hornet aircraft at an altitude of approximately 29,000 feet, the company said Monday. JSOW C-1 […] More