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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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  • Harris, GovTact Partner Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program
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    Harris, GovTact Partner Under SBA Mentor-Protege Program

    Harris Corp. and Government Tactical Solutions have formed a new partnership through the Small Business Administration’s 8(a) Business Development Mentor-Protege Program. Harris will offer developmental support to GovTact in an effort to help the latter create new business, be more competitive and gain business independence under the SBA program, Harris said Sept. 28. GovTact has collaborated with Harris […] More

  • Latvia Purchases 3 Lockheed Air Surveillance Radars; Raimonds Bergmanis, Greg Larioni Comment
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    Latvia Purchases 3 Lockheed Air Surveillance Radars; Raimonds Bergmanis, Greg Larioni Comment

    Lockheed Martin has secured a contract to supply three TPS-77 multi-role radars to Latvia for use in aircraft surveillance operations. The company said Monday the TPS-77 MRR consists of a single, multirole scan platform that works to allow users to choose specific flight surveillance functions for the radar and a Gallium Nitride system designed to reduce […] More

  • Pentagon Taps Orion Health’s EHR Info ‘Engine’ for Military Health System
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    Pentagon Taps Orion Health’s EHR Info ‘Engine’ for Military Health System

    Orion Health will provide an interoperability and information exchange platform for implementation across the Military Health System for the Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization program at the Defense Department. The company’s Rhapsody Integration Engine works to facilitate interoperability between DoD’s EHR platform and civilian centers that provide healthcare services to uniformed personnel, the company said Monday. Orion Health is part of […] More

  • Tory Bruno: RD-180 Ban Keeps ULA From Air Force GPS III Launch Bid
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    Tory Bruno: RD-180 Ban Keeps ULA From Air Force GPS III Launch Bid

    United Launch Alliance CEO Tory Bruno has said the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture cannot submit a bid for the GPS III satellite launch contract due to a ban on the Russia-made RD-180 engine, Reuters reported Friday. Irene Klotz writes Bruno made the remarks in Florida after the U.S. Air Force issued a request for proposals on Wednesday for GPS 3 satellites the service branch […] More

  • Boeing Adds Visual Tool to F-22 Training Simulators; Scott Whitaker Comments
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    Boeing Adds Visual Tool to F-22 Training Simulators; Scott Whitaker Comments

    Boeing has concluded its work to install a new imagery tool in F-22 Raptor training simulators at the U.S. Air Force’s mission training centers. The Constant Resolution Visual System installed on 20 training simulators works to provide F-22 fighter pilots with a 360-degree view of the flight environment, Boeing said Friday. Boeing partnered with the service branch to […] More

  • Battelle, SMT to Collaborate on Counterfeit Chip Detection Tool; Tom Sharpe Comments
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    Battelle, SMT to Collaborate on Counterfeit Chip Detection Tool; Tom Sharpe Comments

    Battelle and SMT have forged an alliance to further develop and commercialize a tool that works to detect cloned or counterfeit electronic chips. Battelle said Thursday its Barricade platform consists of a hardware and software system that works to verify the authenticity of an integrated circuit based on the chip’s electrical signatures and classification algorithm […] More

  • IBM Eyes New Technique to Make Carbon Nanotube-Based Chips; Dario Gil Comments
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    IBM Eyes New Technique to Make Carbon Nanotube-Based Chips; Dario Gil Comments

    Scientists at IBM Research have developed a new process that could help advance the adoption of carbon nanotubes as a semiconductor material used to produce computer chips and other devices. IBM said Thursday the new process works to scale down transistor contacts to less than 10 nanometers without affecting the performance of carbon nanotubes. “As silicon technology nears […] More

  • Boeing-Lockheed JV Carries Out 100th Launch
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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