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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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  • BlackMesh Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Red Hat Cloud Platform-Based PaaS Product; Eric Mandel Comments
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    BlackMesh Obtains FedRAMP Certification for Red Hat Cloud Platform-Based PaaS Product; Eric Mandel Comments

    BlackMesh’s platform-as-a-service cloud offering has received a Federal Risk Authorization Management Program certification. BlackMesh’s SecureCloud PaaS product is based on Red Hat-built OpenShift cloud platform, BlackMesh said Tuesday. Red Hat’s OpenShift works to help developers build, run, manage and deploy cloud services and other applications. “Achieving FedRAMP certification for SecureCloud is a significant step for […] More

  • CACI Lands Air Force Information Operations Training Support Contract; Ken Asbury Comments
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    CACI Lands Air Force Information Operations Training Support Contract; Ken Asbury Comments

    CACI International has received a potential three-year, $25 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to continue to provide development and lifecycle support services for the service branch’s command and control training simulation suite. The contract covers support for the Air Space and Cyberspace Constructive Environment – Information Operations Suite of the service branch’s Cyber Command […] More

  • FAA Extends Cyber Support Contract With CSRA Subsidiary, Plans to Solicit New Proposals in February
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    FAA Extends Cyber Support Contract With CSRA Subsidiary, Plans to Solicit New Proposals in February

    The Federal Aviation Administration has extended its contract with SRA International, a subsidiary of technology services contractor CSRA, to continue to provide support services for the FAA’s security operations center. The FAA said in a Jan. 14 notice posted on FedBizOpps that the contract extension is a “bridge contract action” that aims to prevent the discontinuation of […] More

  • DARPA to Hold Proposers Days on Implantable Neural Interface Program; Phillip Alvelda Comments
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    DARPA to Hold Proposers Days on Implantable Neural Interface Program; Phillip Alvelda Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency will conduct Proposers Days on Feb. 2 and 3 to discuss its Neural Engineering System Design program with potential contractors. DARPA’s NESD initiative seeks to develop implantable neural interface systems that will work to facilitate information transfer and signal resolution between the human brain and digital networks, the agency said Tuesday. “Today’s best brain-computer […] More

  • Northrop, MACOM Enter Radar Array Development Partnership; Thomas Jones, Jack Kennedy Comment
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    Northrop, MACOM Enter Radar Array Development Partnership; Thomas Jones, Jack Kennedy Comment

    Northrop Grumman has partnered with M/A-COM Technology Solutions Holdings to develop and produce radar arrays intended for use in defense platforms and related programs. MACOM will use its active antenna platform to manufacture radar systems under the teaming agreement with Northrop, MACOM said Tuesday. “This relationship supports our continuing pursuit of advanced radar systems,” said Thomas Jones, sector […] More

  • Omniplex Buys Social Intelligence’s Govt Solutions Business; Michael Santelli Comments
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    Omniplex Buys Social Intelligence’s Govt Solutions Business; Michael Santelli Comments

    Omniplex World Services has purchased Social Intelligence’s government solutions business in an effort to gain access to public online data and social media information for use in background investigation process. Omniplex will run the business as its Social Intelligence Government Solutions division and named Steve Lewis, former operations manager at Social Intelligence and a 30-year defense intelligence […] More

  • Orbital ATK Tests 3D-Printed Hypersonic Engine Combustor; Pat Nolan Comments
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    Orbital ATK Tests 3D-Printed Hypersonic Engine Combustor; Pat Nolan Comments

    Orbital ATK has completed a series of tests on a hypersonic engine combustor developed through a 3D printing process the company calls “powder bed fusion.” The company subjected the combustor to propulsion wind tunnel tests and extreme temperature flight tests for a period of 20 days at NASA’s Langley Research Center, Orbital ATK said Monday. “This […] More

  • DynCorp Awarded $59M Contract to Maintain California’s Firefighting Aircraft
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    DynCorp Awarded $59M Contract to Maintain California’s Firefighting Aircraft

    DynCorp International has secured a potential five-year, $59.4 million contract to continue to provide operation and maintenance support for the aviation program of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The contract contains a base period of two years and three option years and covers support for 52 CAL Fire planes used to control wildfires […] More

  • CPI Aerostructures to Supply Northrop Hawkeye Wing Components, Extends Kaman Metal Supply Contract
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    CPI Aerostructures to Supply Northrop Hawkeye Wing Components, Extends Kaman Metal Supply Contract

    Northrop Grumman has awarded CPI Aerostructures a potential $30 million contract to supply structural kits and related components for integration with the outer wing panels of Northrop-built E-2D Advanced Hawkeye planes. The contract also covers supply chain management, parts source selection and manufacturing engineering support services for Northrop, CPI Aerostructures said Thursday. Northrop will build four […] More

  • NTT Communications Rolls Out 5th Data Center in Japan
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    NTT Communications Rolls Out 5th Data Center in Japan

    NTT Communications has launched a new data center in Osaka, Japan as an addition to its Nexcenter data center service. The Osaka 5 Data Center located in Japan’s Kansai region consists of 11 floors and has systems designed to reduce the impact of earthquake and other natural disasters, such as seismic-isolation device and seismic damper, NTT Communications said Monday. […] More

  • HPE’s Marilyn Crouther: Public IT Sector Should Adapt to Business Transformation
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    HPE’s Marilyn Crouther: Public IT Sector Should Adapt to Business Transformation

    Marilyn Crouther, senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s U.S. public sector business, has said the public information technology sector should learn how to adapt to transformation in order to be more agile and respond to industry demands. Crouther wrote in a blog post published Thursday on the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics […] More

  • Cubic to Demo Firearms Training Systems at SHOT Show; Brooks Davis Comments
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    Cubic to Demo Firearms Training Systems at SHOT Show; Brooks Davis Comments

    Cubic Corp.’s global defense unit will join a National Shooting Sports Foundation-hosted trade show in Las Vegas to exhibit several firearms training platforms. The company will demonstrate its PRISim Suite of firearms simulators, QuickRange pre-fabricated shooting range, Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System, Cubic NEK’s live training platforms and Live-Fire Range Design at next week’s SHOT Show, Cubic said Thursday. Brooks […] More