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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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  • Collins Aerospace Demos AI-Enabled Communications, Cross-Domain Tech at Northern Edge Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Collins Aerospace Demos AI-Enabled Communications, Cross-Domain Tech at Northern Edge Exercise

    RTX’s Collins Aerospace business demonstrated the capability of its artificial intelligence-based communications systems, gateway technology and cross-domain platform to link coalition partners to a data network during the second round of a U.S. Indo-Pacific Command multinational exercise at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan. “Our automated communications powered by AI securely provided mission data to […] More

  • Maxar's Tony Frazier: Space-Based Radar Imagery, Machine Learning Could Support Maritime Domain Awareness - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Maxar’s Tony Frazier: Space-Based Radar Imagery, Machine Learning Could Support Maritime Domain Awareness

    Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector Earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies, said geospatial data could play a key role in ensuring maritime security in the Indo-Pacific region and the use of technologies such as space-based surveillance sensors, artificial intelligence and machine learning could help improve maritime domain awareness in the […] More

  • 4 Companies Form Industry Body to Pursue Responsible Frontier AI Model Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    4 Companies Form Industry Body to Pursue Responsible Frontier AI Model Development

    Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and OpenAI have established an industry body that seeks to advance responsible and safe development of frontier artificial intelligence models. The Frontier Model Forum has four core objectives and these are identifying best practices; advancing AI safety research; sharing knowledge with policymakers, civil society, companies and academics about trust and safety risks; […] More

  • Ross Niebergall: L3Harris Eyes Missile & Munition Market With Aerojet Rocketdyne Buy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ross Niebergall: L3Harris Eyes Missile & Munition Market With Aerojet Rocketdyne Buy

    Ross Niebergall, the newly appointed president of the Aerojet Rocketdyne segment of L3Harris Technologies, said the parent company expects its acquisition of the propulsion systems maker to help facilitate its entry into the missiles and munitions market, Breaking Defense reported Monday. “Something that we’re very committed to is [that] we view Aerojet Rocketdyne as an […] More

  • Sachin Sinha: Microsoft Secures FedRAMP Authorization for Azure OpenAI Service - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sachin Sinha: Microsoft Secures FedRAMP Authorization for Azure OpenAI Service

    Microsoft has received certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer its cloud-based generative artificial intelligence service offering to federal agencies. The Azure OpenAI Service secured the FedRAMP authorization after meeting the security requirements for handling government data and related workloads through the program’s rigorous assessment process, Sachin Sinha, director of technology […] More

  • Ross Niebergall Named Aerojet Rocketdyne President at L3Harris - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ross Niebergall Named Aerojet Rocketdyne President at L3Harris

    Ross Niebergall, a technology industry executive, has been appointed president of the Aerojet Rocketdyne segment following the acquisition of the propulsion systems maker by L3Harris Technologies. He most recently served as vice president and chief technology officer at L3Harris, where he oversaw the technology and engineering organization and aligned research and development investments with growth […] More

  • Aptim Secures $68M DOE Hazardous Waste Cleanup Task Order - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Aptim Secures $68M DOE Hazardous Waste Cleanup Task Order

    Aptim Federal Services has received a potential 57-month, $68 million task order from the Department of Energy to decommission and perform waste cleanup work at the former Ion Beam Facility at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The task order was awarded through the Nationwide Deactivation, Decommissioning and Removal contract, DOE said Thursday. […] More

  • BigBear.ai to Build Cloud-Based Tech for Army Test & Evaluation Command Under OTA; Mandy Long Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BigBear.ai to Build Cloud-Based Tech for Army Test & Evaluation Command Under OTA; Mandy Long Quoted

    BigBear.ai has received an other transaction agreement from the U.S. Army to develop a cloud-based, no-code/low-code platform as part of the second phase of the Army Test and Evaluation Command Integrated Mission Management System program. The cloud-based tool to be developed under the potential nine-month, $7.7 million OTA will work to provide the Army access […] More

  • GSA’s Laura Stanton: Agencies Have Obligated $1B on Task Order Awards via 8(a) STARS III GWAC - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA’s Laura Stanton: Agencies Have Obligated $1B on Task Order Awards via 8(a) STARS III GWAC

    Laura Stanton, a General Services Administration official, said that since 2021, federal agencies have obligated $1 billion on 600 task orders awarded through the 8(a) Streamlined Technology Acquisition Resource for Services III governmentwide contract to 309 small businesses. Of those small businesses, 177 marked their first GSA orders through the 8(a) STARS III GWAC, Stanton, […] More

  • IBM Gets DOD Accreditation for Embedded Microelectronics Security Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Gets DOD Accreditation for Embedded Microelectronics Security Services

    IBM has obtained accreditation from a Department of Defense organization to deliver embedded security services tailored to a U.S.-based advanced microelectronics producer. The company said Wednesday the Defense Microelectronics Activity issued the Trusted Supplier accreditation to IBM Consulting’s security services, which work to identify and remediate vulnerabilities in the microelectronics supply chain. The security services […] More

  • Kirsten Kliphouse Joins Dun & Bradstreet's Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kirsten Kliphouse Joins Dun & Bradstreet’s Board

    Kirsten Kliphouse, a technology industry leader, has been named to the board of directors of business decisioning data and analytics provider Dun & Bradstreet. She brings to the board decades of leadership experience and information security, data privacy, innovation and technological knowledge, the company said Wednesday. Kliphouse’s “deep technological expertise and significant leadership experiences at […] More

  • Amy Gilliland on GDIT's Digital Consulting Practice - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Amy Gilliland on GDIT’s Digital Consulting Practice

    Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology and a six-time Wash100 awardee, said GDIT is investing in its workforce as it works to expand its digital consulting practice to meet the evolving needs of government customers. “We reimagined what a consultative company needs, and what the folks on the front line need. And they […] More