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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.
Harris Corp. will manufacture new handheld radios for the U.S. Special Operations Forces under a potential six-year, $390 million contract. Harris said Tuesday its SOF Tactical Communications handheld radio is designed to help users simultaneously communicate over two channels and legacy systems. The STC radio has a Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module GPS receiver and a […] More
A business unit of BWX Technologies has been awarded $34.5 million in contracts to produce nuclear reactors and related components for the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers and submarines. BWXT‘s nuclear operations group will perform majority of the contract work at its facilities in Virginia, Ohio and Indiana in the next two years, BWX Technologies said Monday. […] More
Advanced Onion has secured a $1.8 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to help find 21.5 million people whose personal data was compromised in a data breach at the Office of Personnel Management, Nextgov reported Monday. The technology company will work to build a system designed to log the reason for breach notification letters that […] More
Norfolk, Va.’s police department has started to implement a LexisNexis Risk Solutions-built reporting tool. Lexis Nexis’ Desk Officer Reporting System works to help users submit crime reports online and communicate directly with police personnel in multiple languages, including Spanish, LexisNexis said Monday. The police department also has become the first East Coast agency to allow users to buy […] More
A new report by Booz Allen Hamilton and not-for-profit ISC says women make up only 10 percent of the information security workforce and have a lower average salary than that of men when it comes to governance, risk and compliance roles. Frost & Sullivan polled nearly 14,000 data security professionals for the Women in Security: Wisely […] More
TeleCommunication Systems’ Art of Exploitation training group has been authorized by ISACA to provide skills-based training and performance-based exams in cloud environments under the nonprofit association’s Cybersecurity Nexus certification program. ISACA’s CSX program seeks to hone incident response skills among professionals during cyber attacks and corresponds with the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Initiative for Cybersecurity […] More
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Leidos a potential three-year, $18.7 million contract to perform research and develop new techniques in an effort to identify and locate high-frequency emitters through geolocation techniques. The Air Force received seven proposals for the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Defense Department said Friday. Phase two of this contract covers the development of a hardware system and […] More
A new MarketsandMarkets report predicts the global market for big data-as-a-service to reach $7 billion in total value over the next five years, up from $1.8 billion in 2015. The research firm said Monday the worldwide BDaaS market covers various big data services offered through cloud-based environments, such as Data Analytics-as-a-Service, Data-as-a-Service and Hadoop-as-a-Service. According to […] More
A new Research and Markets report predicts the U.S. market for green data centers to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 26.35 percent over the next decade. Research and Markets said Thursday the market will be driven by the demand among data center operators for computer systems facilities that are designed to reduce energy […] More
The U.S. Air Force has unveiled a potential three-year, $24.9 million funding opportunity for industry to develop new methods and systems for the collection and processing of signals intelligence and cyber communications. White papers should contain information on processes and technological platforms that could enable SIGINT tools to detect and characterize electronic communication signals of interest in dense […] More
Northrop Grumman’s electronic systems sector has received a potential four-year, $8.5 million contract to perform research and development work for the U.S. Air Force’s Advanced Staring Infrared Search and Track Technologies program. The Air Force Research Laboratory awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract through a competitive procurement process with nine proposals received, the Defense Department said Thursday. The […] More
A new International Data Corp. report says the global market for integrated infrastructure systems and integrated platforms reached $2.4 billion in revenues in the second quarter of this year. IDC said Thursday the market posted nearly 45 percent increase in storage capacity shipments during the quarter compared with the same quarter of the previous year. […] More
