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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.
A new Congressional Research Service report says the U.S. recorded $36.2 billion in foreign arms sales in 2014, an approximately $10 billion increase from $26.7 billion in 2013, DoD Buzz reported Monday. Brendan McGarry writes the U.S. worldwide arms transfer deals are comprised mainly of Qatar’s $9.6 billion purchase of Lockheed Martin-built Patriot PAC-3 missiles, […] More
An Avnet subsidiary will offer Catalogic Software’s storage and data management platforms to public sector agencies through a General Services Administration contract vehicle. Avnet Government Solutions will use its GSA schedule to distribute Catalogic’s information technology products across state and local education and federal government clients, Avnet said Wednesday. “IT organizations in federal agencies recognize […] More
Raytheon-Websense has received a potential $8 million contract from the Justice Department to build a virtual network for FBI agents and analysts to access and view secret and unclassified systems on the same monitor, GCN reported Wednesday. Stephanie Kanowitz writes DOJ awarded the contract through the FBI’s Enclave Consolidation Initiative that seeks to reduce costs associated with […] More
Lockheed Martin’s Canadian subsidiary has achieved first article acceptance for its combat platform onboard seven of the Canadian navy’s 12 Halifax-class frigates. The subsidiary reached the system acceptance milestone after it completed several integration tests on its combat system at the firm’s maritime training and testing facility in Nova Scotia as part of the navy’s Halifax-class […] More
Peerless Technologies has secured a potential four-year, $53.7 million task order from the U.S. Air Force to provide consulting and assistance support services for the structures and aerodynamics test centers of the aerospace vehicles division. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost-plus, level-of-effort order through the General Services Administration’s One Acquisition Solution for Integrated […] More
Airbus’ defense and space business has won a potential $600 million contract from Inmarsat to construct the first two communications satellites for integration with the Inmarsat-6 satellite constellation. The two I-6 satellites will work to provide Ka- and L-band mobile communications services to Inmarsat clients, Inmarsat said Wednesday. Airbus is scheduled to hand over the […] More
France has placed an order for seven more Airbus-built Tiger attack helicopters in an effort to help French troops perform air-land operations in sub-Saharan Africa, Defense News reported Tuesday. Pierre Tran writes the French defense procurement agency or DGA made the order on Dec. 17 through France’s Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation. The report said DGA […] More
Amazon Web Services and the California Justice Department have signed an agreement in an effort to help the state’s law enforcement agencies comply with FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services standard and securely manage workloads in the cloud. AWS will offer cloud infrastructure and security-related services such as Amazon CloudTrail, AWS Direct Connect and AWS CloudHSM to […] More
David Nace, chief medical officer at MarkLogic, has said he expects greater participation from industry stakeholders in efforts to introduce updates on electronic health records systems in 2016. Such changes are likely to occur in the “usability” of EHR systems as doctors and medical organizations call for major upgrades of such platforms, Nace writes in […] More
Erickson has delivered a fourth tail pylon to Lockheed Martin subsidiary Sikorsky for integration with the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopters of the U.S. Marine Corps. Erickson will ship the last aircraft tail pylon by the end of this year as part of a contract with Sikorsky to produce five out-of-production spare tail pylons for the service branch, […] More
CGI has won a potential five-year, $19.6 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps to provide software systems, engineering and logistics support services for Blount Island Command in Jacksonville, Florida. Blount Island Command works to provide logistics support for the service branch’s Maritime Prepositioning Force with regard to the management of combat equipment and supplies, […] More
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Air Force Research Laboratory will perform in January live-fire tests on a General Atomics-built laser weapon that works to generate up to 150 kilowatts of energy, Breaking Defense reported Monday. Richard Whittle writes the High Energy Liquid Laser Area Defense System based-laser platform will be test-fired at various aerial […] More
