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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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  • Mitre-Run R&D Center Teams Up With NHIT Collaborative; Luis Belen Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Healthcare IT, News

    Mitre-Run R&D Center Teams Up With NHIT Collaborative; Luis Belen Comments

    A Mitre-operated federally funded research and development center and the National Health IT Collaborative for the Underserved have forged a partnership in an effort to address health disparities and improve health for underserved communities. The CMS Alliance to Modernize Healthcare FFRDC will work with the NHIT Collaborative to include underserved populations in discussions as the […] More

  • Lockheed, EOS Build Space Debris Tracking Facility in Australia; Ben Greene Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, EOS Build Space Debris Tracking Facility in Australia; Ben Greene Comments

    Lockheed Martin and Electro Optic Systems have begun construction on a new facility in Australia that seeks to help government and industry satellite operators track and monitor orbital space debris objects. The tracking facility will work to help prevent collisions of satellite payloads with debris objects in space, Lockheed said Tuesday. The new site will house […] More

  • Centerra to Provide Protective Force Staff for Los Alamos National Lab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Centerra to Provide Protective Force Staff for Los Alamos National Lab

    Facility management services contractor Centerra Group has received a potential five-year contract from Los Alamos National Security to provide security police personnel and other protective force services support for Los Alamos National Laboratory in Santa Fe, New Mexico. LANS awarded the contract through a competitive acquisition process, Centerra said Tuesday. The New Mexico-based laboratory works […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Makes 3-D Printed Orion Nozzle Components; Julie Van Kleeck Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Makes 3-D Printed Orion Nozzle Components; Julie Van Kleeck Comments

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has used 3-D printing technology to produce 12 nozzle extensions for installation onboard the Orion spacecraft’s crew module reaction control system. “These components are the first additively manufactured parts we have provided for the Orion spacecraft,” Julie Van Kleeck, vice president of advanced space and launch programs at Aerojet Rocketdyne, said in a […] More

  • Booz Allen’s Angie Messer: Companies Should Exercise Cyber Response Plans Through 'Wargames' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Angie Messer: Companies Should Exercise Cyber Response Plans Through ‘Wargames’

    Angela “Angie” Messer, an executive vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, has told Bloomberg BNA that companies should have cyber response plans in place in the event of a cyber attack. Messer said in an interview published Monday that firms should exercise such plans on a regular basis through cyber wargames in order to practice […] More

  • DARPA Abandons F-15 Satellite Launch Plan After Propellant Explosions - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Abandons F-15 Satellite Launch Plan After Propellant Explosions

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has ended its plans to use a modified version of F-15 fighter jet to launch satellite payloads into space after two unmanned tests of a pre-mixed propellant resulted in explosions, Space News reported Monday. Tests on the NA-7 propellant were part of DARPA’s Airborne Launch Assist Space Access program that seeks […] More

  • Hanks, Hanks & Associates Wins NASA Administrative Support Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hanks, Hanks & Associates Wins NASA Administrative Support Contract

    Hanks, Hanks & Associates has been awarded a potential five-year, $29.3 million contract to provide clerical support, records maintenance and other administrative services for NASA’s Alabama-based Marshall Space Flight Center and New Orleans-based Michoud Assembly Facility. The space agency awarded the firm-fixed-price contract through a competitive acquisition as part of the government’s 8(a) initiative for small […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Finishes 100th AJ60 Rocket Motor for ULA Atlas V - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Finishes 100th AJ60 Rocket Motor for ULA Atlas V

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has finished its 100th AJ60 rocket motor for United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V launch vehicle. Aerojet said Monday 87 AJ60 solid rocket boosters have been used in 24 Atlas V missions since it won the contract from the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture in 1999. AJ60 is a 67-foot long wound composite SRB designed to carry over 90,000 […] More

  • Airbus Wraps Up Factory Acceptance Tests on Navy LCS Radar System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Airbus Wraps Up Factory Acceptance Tests on Navy LCS Radar System

    Airbus’ defense and space business has concluded a series of factory assessment tests on a radar system for integration with the U.S. Navy’s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship-17. TRS-4D is a rotating active electronically scanned array radar that works to detect surface and aerial threats and perform target acquisition and surveillance operations, Airbus said Monday. The radar […] More

  • FDA OKs Siemens Twin Robotic X-Ray System; Martin Silverman Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    FDA OKs Siemens Twin Robotic X-Ray System; Martin Silverman Comments

    Siemens‘ healthcare unit has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration for the company’s twin robotic X-ray system. The Multitom Robotic Advanced X-ray platform is designed to generate three-dimensional images in various clinical examinations such as radiography, angiography, fluoroscopy and orthopedics, Siemens said Sunday. The imaging system has an adjustable table for patients and two robotic arms […] More

  • Federal News Radio: Navy Taps 4 Firms to Provide IT Platforms Through Innovation Cell Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Federal News Radio: Navy Taps 4 Firms to Provide IT Platforms Through Innovation Cell Program

    The U.S. Navy has selected Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, VMware, Citrix and Tellabs to provide information technology systems and services for integration with the Navy Marine Corps Intranet as part of the Innovation Cell program, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Jared Serbu writes the Navy launched the Innovation Cell initiative in March in an effort to acquire IT platforms […] More

  • Macquarie Telecom Adopts MapR Cloud-Based Data Analytics Platform; Justin Bock Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Macquarie Telecom Adopts MapR Cloud-Based Data Analytics Platform; Justin Bock Comments

    Macquarie Telecom has implemented a MapR Technologies cloud-based data platform in Australia in an effort to help government agencies there protect online communications from potential cyber attacks. MapR Distribution works to analyze big data workloads in hybrid cloud environments and detect network vulnerabilities through the Apache Hadoop software framework, MapR said Tuesday. Apache Hadoop is designed to process […] More