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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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  • Boeing-Lockheed JV Carries Out 100th Launch - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing-Lockheed JV Carries Out 100th Launch

    A United Launch Alliance-built rocket launched early Friday morning to mark the 100th mission carried out by the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, NASASpaceflight.com reported Friday. An Atlas V rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to carry the Morelos-3 communications satellite into space, William Graham writes. The Atlas V contains an RL10 engine-powered Centaur upper stage, […] More

  • Cubic Lands Air Force Combat Training Tool Contract; Bill Toti Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic Lands Air Force Combat Training Tool Contract; Bill Toti Comments

    Cubic‘s global defense segment has been awarded a contract to build a live, virtual and constructive tool for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s 711th Human Performance Wing. Cubic said Thursday it will perform contract work on the LVC system intended for airborne combat training under the Secure LVC Advanced Training Environment Advanced Technology Demonstration program. AFRL’s […] More

  • Raytheon Wraps Up Weather Data System Deployment; Dave Wajsgras Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Raytheon Wraps Up Weather Data System Deployment; Dave Wajsgras Comments

    Raytheon has completed the deployment of a weather data tool at over 140 offices of the U.S. National Weather Service across the country and several territories. The Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System II has visualization and data analysis tools that work to help forecasters predict the weather, Raytheon said Thursday. “The development and rollout of AWIPS […] More

  • Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov't Cloud Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Microsoft Expands ExpressRoute Service to Azure Gov’t Cloud Users

    Microsoft has made its Azure ExpressRoute cloud integration service available to users of the software company’s Azure Government cloud platform. Yousef Khalidi, Azure networking engineer at Microsoft, wrote in a Microsoft blog post published Tuesday that Microsoft’s Azure ExpressRoute service is designed to establish private connectivity between on-premises data centers and Azure cloud computing platform without the […] More

  • DOE to Fund General Atomics' Medical Isotope Project; Kathy Murray Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DOE to Fund General Atomics’ Medical Isotope Project; Kathy Murray Comments

    General Atomics will receive $9.7 million in funds from the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration under a cooperative agreement to produce commercial supplies of molybdenum-99 medical isotopes in the U.S. Mo-99 serves as the parent isotope of the radioisotope technetium-99m used in nuclear-based diagnostic imaging procedures, General Atomics said Wednesday. The company will collaborate with […] More

  • Army Seeks Proposals for New Apache, Black Hawk Helicopter Engine - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Army Seeks Proposals for New Apache, Black Hawk Helicopter Engine

    The U.S. Army has issued a solicitation in search of design proposals from industry for a new engine to replace General Electric-built T700-GE-701C/D engines that run on UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters, the Army website reported Tuesday. The Improved Turbine Engine Program is designed to equip Apache and Black Hawk aircraft with 3,000 […] More

  • Leidos-Boundless Team to Develop Open-Source Geospatial Software, Cyber Defense Apps - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos-Boundless Team to Develop Open-Source Geospatial Software, Cyber Defense Apps

    Leidos and Boundless have forged a strategic alliance to further develop and market open-source geospatial software and cyber defense tools and services. The partnership will allow Leidos to use Boundless’ OpenGeo Suite geospatial platform to update its proprietary systems with open-source applications and support its integration initiatives that seek to address intelligence and national security efforts, Leidos […] More

  • Intel’s Chris Young: Software Updates Could Help Protect Cars from Cyber Threats - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel’s Chris Young: Software Updates Could Help Protect Cars from Cyber Threats

    Chris Young, senior vice president and general manager of Intel‘s security group, has said in an interview that regular software updates could help safeguard connected automobiles from potential cyber attacks. “When you find vulnerabilities or things that are wrong, the sooner you can respond and update your software on the device, the better the overall protections […] More

  • ICF Lands Study, Database Support Contracts with HUD, HHS; John Boyle, Jon Moriarty Comment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ICF Lands Study, Database Support Contracts with HUD, HHS; John Boyle, Jon Moriarty Comment

    ICF International has won two contracts worth $36 million combined from the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services to provide database management support and continue work on a study. One potential four-year, $31.2 million recompete contract calls on ICF to continue its provide data collection, training and data analysis for the HUD Policy Development […] More

  • Thales-Raytheon JV Lands Sentinel Radar Supply Contract in Latvia - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Thales-Raytheon JV Lands Sentinel Radar Supply Contract in Latvia

    A joint venture of Thales Group and Raytheon has been awarded a contract to supply mobile radar systems to Latvia’s armed forces. ThalesRaytheonSystems said Wednesday it will deliver four Improved Sentinel AN/MPQ-64 F1 radars to Latvia. Sentinel is a mobile, three-dimensional radar system intended for missile system coordination, infrastructure protection and airborne surveillance operations. The phased-array […] More

  • AECOM Awarded Selective Catalytic Reduction EPC Contract for New Mexico Power Plant; Michael Burke Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AECOM Awarded Selective Catalytic Reduction EPC Contract for New Mexico Power Plant; Michael Burke Comments

    AECOM will perform engineering, procurement and construction work on selective catalytic reduction components for a coal-fired power plant in New Mexico under a contract with Arizona Public Service. The contract covers the installation of SCR retrofits and related balance of plant systems and equipment at units 4 and 5 that APS operates at the New […] More

  • Deltek’s Alex Rossino: IBM Led FY 2011-2015 Federal Cloud Contract Awards - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Deltek’s Alex Rossino: IBM Led FY 2011-2015 Federal Cloud Contract Awards

    Established vendors continue to dominate the federal market for cloud platforms amid competition with commercial newcomers, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, cited IBM as the leading federal cloud vendor based on the value of awarded contracts from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2015. IBM booked $603 […] More