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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 Subjects Vehicular Tactical Radios to Limited User Test; George Helm Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris Subjects Vehicular Tactical Radios to Limited User Test; George Helm Comments

    Harris Corp. has conducted a limited user test of its Mid-tier Networking Vehicular Radio during the U.S. Army’s Network Integration Evaluation 15.3 operation at Fort Bliss in Texas. The company said Thursday it sought to validate the video, voice and data sharing capability of MNVR among soldiers across company, battalion and brigade levels and verify network routing configurations in […] More

  • SRI International’s Online Game Seeks to Verify Software; John Murray Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SRI International’s Online Game Seeks to Verify Software; John Murray Comments

    SRI International has developed an online game as part of a government program that intends to verify software to ensure that it lacks errors and security vulnerabilities. The company said Tuesday it created Binary Fission with the University of California in Santa Cruz and the Air Force Research Laboratory under the Crowd-Sourced Formal Verification initiative of the Defense […] More

  • Red Hat, Samsung to Develop Mobile Platforms for Commercial Clients - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Red Hat, Samsung to Develop Mobile Platforms for Commercial Clients

    Red Hat and Samsung have formed a partnership to develop mobile platforms for companies to manage business information and operations. Red Hat said Tuesday it will work with Samsung to develop mobile applications that can be configured for a company’s back-end systems and can operate on Android and other mobile operating systems through the Red Hat Mobile Application Platform. […] More

  • IBM-Box Alliance Seeks to Facilitate Cloud-Based Enterprise Collaboration - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM-Box Alliance Seeks to Facilitate Cloud-Based Enterprise Collaboration

    IBM and cloud storage firm Box have formed an alliance to combine their services and offerings in an effort to help enterprises manage data workloads and collaborate with other businesses in a cloud environment. IBM said Wednesday it will integrate Box’s cloud-based content collaboration tool with Watson Analytics, IBM Verse business email platform and IBM Connections social […] More

  • Jacobs Gets UK Carbon Capture, Storage Program Technical Consulting Contract; Bob Duff Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs Gets UK Carbon Capture, Storage Program Technical Consulting Contract; Bob Duff Comments

    Jacobs Engineering Group’s consultancy business has received a two-year contract from a U.K. government agency to provide technical consulting services for a $1.55 billion program to create commercial-scale carbon capture and storage projects. Jacobs said Tuesday the contract from the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change covers the assessment of project risks, design deliverables and […] More

  • Northrop to Perform Targeting Pod Upgrades Aboard F-16 Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop to Perform Targeting Pod Upgrades Aboard F-16 Jets

    Northrop Grumman has won contracts worth $74 million to upgrade the targeting pods onboard the F-16 multirole fighter aircraft of the Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard. The company said Monday the upgrade work intends to equip the F-16 jets with the AN/AAQ-28(V) Litening G4 targeting and surveillance system’s digital video processing functions to […] More

  • Fidelis-Ponemon Institute Survey Finds Cyber Risk Awareness Gap Between IT Professionals, Board Members - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Fidelis-Ponemon Institute Survey Finds Cyber Risk Awareness Gap Between IT Professionals, Board Members

    A new survey commissioned by Fidelis Cybersecurity says gaps exist between information technology professionals and board members in terms of cybersecurity knowledge and awareness of data breach incidents within their organizations. The company said Tuesday the Defining the Gap: The Cybersecurity Governance Survey showed that 41 percent of board member respondents said they lack cybersecurity knowledge and […] More

  • Boeing Completes C-17 Training Simulator Delivery to U.S. Air Force - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing Completes C-17 Training Simulator Delivery to U.S. Air Force

    Boeing has turned over its last training simulator for the C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft to the U.S. Air Force. The company said Tuesday the military branch received the 28th C-17 aircrew simulator at Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base in West Virginia. “Receiving our simulator avoids sending our local crews on temporary duty […] More

  • BAE Systems Unveils Cloud-Based Platforms in Canada - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    BAE Systems Unveils Cloud-Based Platforms in Canada

    BAE Systems has introduced several cloud-based platforms designed to help businesses based in Canada protect their data infrastructure from potential cyber attacks. The company said Tuesday the Zero Day Prevention offering under its Email Protection Services portfolio aims to protect clients from unknown attacks by screening cloud-based emails for malware and malicious content before they […] More

  • DISA Gives Carpathia Impact Level 2 Provisional Approval for Cloud Data Hosting - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Gives Carpathia Impact Level 2 Provisional Approval for Cloud Data Hosting

    Carpathia has received a provisional authorization from the Defense Information Systems Agency to host the Defense Department‘s data workloads at Impact Level 2 via a cloud service. The company said Tuesday the Pentagon assigns IL2 for information approved for public release, non-controlled unclassified data and some private unclassified data not considered critical mission information. Data under IL2 require minimum access […] More

  • ODNI’s IARPA Seeks Proposals for Insider Threat Evaluation Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ODNI’s IARPA Seeks Proposals for Insider Threat Evaluation Program

    The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence is seeking proposals for a program that aims to develop and assess methods for insider threat detection. The Scientific advances to Continuous Insider Threat Evaluation initiative will be carried out in two separate research efforts and is slated to commence in December, IARPA said in a […] More

  • IBM Unveils Analytics-Based Police Data Network on Cloud; Robert Griffin Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Unveils Analytics-Based Police Data Network on Cloud; Robert Griffin Comments

    IBM has deployed an analytics-based data network on the cloud in an effort to help law enforcement departments produce case leads and share police records with other agencies. The company said Monday its IBM i2 COPLINK on Cloud platform has geospatial mapping functions designed to help police officers generate maps associated with burglaries, arson and […] More