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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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  • Amazon Web Services-Accenture Group to Offer Cloud Migration Services; Adam Selipsky Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amazon Web Services-Accenture Group to Offer Cloud Migration Services; Adam Selipsky Comments

    Amazon Web Services and Accenture have teamed up to establish a new business group that will work to help commercial firms migrate and manage their data workloads and applications onto the AWS Cloud platform. The Accenture AWS Business Group will also provide services for enterprise clients, such as application migration and development, refactoring, architecture and […] More

  • Navy Taps 3 Firms for ISR Sensor Prototype Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Taps 3 Firms for ISR Sensor Prototype Contract

    Three companies have won positions on a potential five-year, $49 million contract to build prototype sensors for the U.S. Navy to use during force-protection, intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance operations, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday. John Keller writes Northrop Grumman, Consolidated Resource Imaging and Manufacturing Techniques will compete for task orders to develop and deliver sensor systems for different clients. The contract has a […] More

  • TOTE Accepts Natural Gas-Fueled Containership From General Dynamics NASSCO; Kevin Graney Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    TOTE Accepts Natural Gas-Fueled Containership From General Dynamics NASSCO; Kevin Graney Comments

    A General Dynamics subsidiary has handed to TOTE Maritime the world’s first Marlin-class cargo ship that runs on liquefied natural gas two months ahead of schedule . General Dynamics said Friday General Dynamics NASSCO collaborated with TOTE, the U.S. Coast Guard and the American Bureau of Shipping to design, build and commission the Isla Bella containership under a […] More

  • Army Picks Metova for Cyber Battle Lab Experimentation Support; John Adams Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Picks Metova for Cyber Battle Lab Experimentation Support; John Adams Comments

    Metova, a service-disabled veteran-owned small business, has received a potential $45 million contract to provide experimentation support services for electronic and cyber warfare programs of the U.S. Army’s Cyber Battle Lab. The company said Thursday the Army Contracting Command awarded the firm-fixed-price contract through a competitive procurement with nine companies involved. “Metova is honored to have the opportunity […] More

  • Verizon Rolls Out Networking Service for Public Sector Cloud Adopters; Michael Maiorana Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Verizon Rolls Out Networking Service for Public Sector Cloud Adopters; Michael Maiorana Comments

    Verizon has launched a networking service to help federal agencies and other public sector organizations link and manage their workloads across cloud computing platforms and data centers. The Secure Cloud Interconnect works to provide users a private Internet connection in order to access information and applications stored in data centers and private, public and hybrid cloud platforms, Verizon said Wednesday. […] More

  • Northrop Starts Construction on UAS Facility in North Dakota; Janis Pamiljans Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Starts Construction on UAS Facility in North Dakota; Janis Pamiljans Comments

    Northrop Grumman has broken ground on a new $10 million facility in Grand Forks, North Dakota, to carry out research and development work on unmanned aerial systems. The 36,000-square-foot building will be built at Grand Sky UAS Business and Aviation Park and will also perform mission analysis, aircrew training and aircraft maintenance operations related to drones, […] More

  • DARPA Eyes Interoperable Network Platforms for Manned Aircraft, Drones; Wayne Phoel Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DARPA Eyes Interoperable Network Platforms for Manned Aircraft, Drones; Wayne Phoel Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has issued a solicitation for industry proposals for a program that seeks to develop platforms designed to facilitate interoperability of airborne radio networks that manned aircraft and drones use to communicate with each other. The objective of the Dynamic Network Adaptation for Mission Optimization program “is to enable pilots […] More

  • Deloitte Consulting Lands USAID Support Contract for Climate Change Program in Vietnam - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deloitte Consulting Lands USAID Support Contract for Climate Change Program in Vietnam

    Deloitte Consulting has been awarded a $9.4 million contract to provide professional support services for the U.S. Agency for International Development’s climate change initiative in Vietnam. USAID said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Monday the Vietnam Low Emission Energy Program seeks to promote the deployment of low-emission energy platforms in the country through strategy development […] More

  • Hughes Awarded Florida Nat'l Guard Internet Service Delivery Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hughes Awarded Florida Nat’l Guard Internet Service Delivery Contract

    Hughes Network Systems has received a potential five-year, $700,000 contract to provide managed Internet connections, Wi-Fi services and digital media platforms for the Florida Army National Guard. The company said Monday it will deliver the HughesON suite offerings to 65 National Guard installations across the state through its broadband satellite network. Tony Bardo, assistant vice president […] More

  • Naval Research Lab Taps KEYW for Systems Instrumentation Support Task Order; Bill Weber Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Naval Research Lab Taps KEYW for Systems Instrumentation Support Task Order; Bill Weber Comments

    The KEYW Corp. has won a potential three-year, $13.5 million task order to provide systems integration and instrumentation support services for the Naval Research Laboratory. KEYW said Tuesday the single-award contract covers general purpose electronic test instrument integration and evaluation and software development work, including software-defined radio engineering and cloud analytics implementation. “We are excited to […] More

  • Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Gov’t, Commercial Satellite Sector Should Address In-Orbit Collisions Through Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Gov’t, Commercial Satellite Sector Should Address In-Orbit Collisions Through Collaboration

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has called on the U.S. government and commercial satellite vendors to collaborate in the development of policies on the safety of satellite launches and seek to reduce the risk of in-orbit collisions. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a SpaceNews op-ed published Tuesday that inactive satellites and debris constitute the majority of approximately 23,000 man-made objects the Defense Department tracks […] More

  • USSOCOM Orders Carl-Gustaf Rifle System from Saab - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USSOCOM Orders Carl-Gustaf Rifle System from Saab

    Saab has secured an order to produce and supply a man-portable, recoilless rifle platform to the U.S. Special Operations Command. USSOCOM placed the order for the Carl-Gustaf weapon system through a framework contract it awarded to Saab in August 2014, Saab said Monday. Saab expects to deliver the rifle system this year through 2016. The rifle platform […] More