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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.
William LaPlante, assistant secretary for acquisition of the U.S. Air Force, has said the U.S. could face difficulties in its efforts to simultaneously maintain access to space, advance competition in space launches and cease dependence on Russian-built rocket engines, Reuters reported Tuesday. “I don’t think you can get all three in the next four or […] More
PE Systems has won a potential one-year, $22.5 million contract to provide information technology systems, software development services and other technical support for the U.S. Air Force’s acquisition directorate secretary and other related organizations. The Air Force’s District of Washington Procurement Office awarded the firm-fixed-price contract through a competitive acquisition with seven proposals received, the […] More
The Secure Identity & Biometrics Association has called on the U.S. government to use the Defense Department’s foreign military sales initiative as a channel to provide allied countries facing an influx of refugees from Syria with biometrics tools. The recommendation is included in SIBA’s list of action plans the U.S. and international governments can implement in […] More
Thales has received a subcontract from Leidos to help validate NATO’s ballistic missile defense system. Thales will design and test interfaces with NATO’s sensors and weapons, provide integration services and evaluate the BMD system on the integrated test bed under the subcontract, Thales said Friday. The work is part of a potential $77 million contract […] More
CAE has secured a subcontract from logistics support contractor ADS to provide the U.S. Air Force with a fuselage training platform designed to train aeromedical evacuation crews for emergency procedures on both KC-135 tanker aircraft and C-17 transport planes. CAE will equip the C-17/KC-135 Aeromedical Evacuation Training System with medical patient simulators and a mission system that […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a potential $11.6 million contract modification to continue to provide performance-based logistics support services for the U.S. Navy’s Consolidated Automated Support System. The company will perform contract work in Florida through March 2016, the Defense Department said Friday. The Navy’s CASS is a family of standard automatic testing tools that work […] More
A Raytheon subsidiary has received a potential four-year, $7.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop a software that works to extend the life cycle of mobile networked systems and manage resource-linked modifications in mobile applications. Raytheon BBN Technologies will work to combine program synthesis and analysis, resource specification and runtime methods to develop the […] More
Leidos and the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Information Sciences Institute have partnered for two research projects that seek to advance high-performance computing and network analysis. Leidos said Monday it will fund both projects through a five-year, $500,000 grant under the Strategic University Alliances Program. The program seeks to support science, technology, engineering and math education […] More
Lockheed Martin has integrated Princeton Power Systems-built grid-tiered inverters with an energy storage system as part of an electric power grid project in Boothbay, Maine. Lockheed partnered with Convergent Energy + Power on the project to deploy a 3-megawatt-hour energy storage platform in an effort to address electric reliability issues that Boothbay-area households face during summer, Princeton […] More
The U.S. Navy placed its fifth Littoral Combat Ship into active service during a commissioning ceremony held in Milwaukee Saturday. Lockheed Martin designed and built the Freedom-class USS Milwaukee LCS with Gibbs & Cox and Fincantieri Marinette Marine, Lockheed said Saturday. “The entire Lockheed Martin-led LCS industry team is proud to deliver USS Milwaukee to the crew […] More
Harris Corp. has opened a $1.9 million facility that aims to provide a venue for science and engineering students at Florida Institute of Technology to design, build and test new technology platforms. The Harris Student Design Center is located within Florida Institute of Technology’s Melbourne campus, Harris said Friday. Bill Brown, chairman, president and CEO at […] More
Boston Fusion has awarded root9B a subcontract to provide consulting services for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s information innovation office in support of the $60 million Transparent Computing initiative. Root9B will work with Boston Fusion to conduct research and develop scenarios for advanced persistent threats and other cyber threat environments as part of the […] More
