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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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  • Carahsoft's Alex Whitworth on EPA's Cybersecurity Action Plan for Water, Wastewater Systems Sector - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth on EPA’s Cybersecurity Action Plan for Water, Wastewater Systems Sector

    Alex Whitworth, cybersecurity solutions vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, said the Environmental Protection Agency released an action plan meant to safeguard water and wastewater systems from cyberattacks. The action plan comes with several measures, such as providing technical support to water systems, enhancing the process of information sharing and data analysis, advancing projects that implement […] More

  • Booz Allen's Susan Penfield on Speeding Up Decision-Making Process Through Data, AI - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Booz Allen’s Susan Penfield on Speeding Up Decision-Making Process Through Data, AI

    Susan Penfield, chief technology officer at Booz Allen Hamilton, said the U.S. technology industry and the public sector must advance collaboration, accelerate the decision-making process by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence and data and make trust as a principle of innovation. Penfield wrote in an article published Thursday on Fast Company that the U.S. […] More

  • Coalfire-Carahsoft-Google Team Seeks to Accelerate FedRAMP Certification for SaaS Companies; Craig Abod Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Coalfire-Carahsoft-Google Team Seeks to Accelerate FedRAMP Certification for SaaS Companies; Craig Abod Quoted

    Coalfire, Carahsoft Technology and Google’s public sector arm have formed a partnership to provide enterprise software-as-a-service companies with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program assessment and consulting services to speed up their FedRAMP authority-to-operate certification and expand into new federal markets. Under the partnership, Coalfire will provide FedRAMP advisory services to enable Carahsoft and Google […] More

  • Anduril Demos C4 Platform 'Menace' at INDOPACOM-Sponsored Exercise - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Anduril Demos C4 Platform ‘Menace’ at INDOPACOM-Sponsored Exercise

    Anduril Industries demonstrated its two Menace command and control hardware systems during the Northern Edge 23-1 exercise hosted by U.S. Indo-Pacific Command between April 28 and May 20 across the Gulf of Alaska and the Joint Pacific-Alaska Range Complex. Menace, which was unveiled in September 2022, is an expeditionary command, control, communications and computing system […] More

  • Technical Computing Company JuliaHub Secures AEI HorizonX Investment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technical Computing Company JuliaHub Secures AEI HorizonX Investment

    JuliaHub, a technical computing and scientific machine learning company, has received a strategic investment worth $13 million from AEI HorizonX, a venture capital platform formed by AE Industrial Partners and Boeing. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based JuliaHub was founded by the developers of an open-source programming language, called Julia, that enables engineers, researchers and developers to design, build […] More

  • Defense Tech Companies, Investors Urge DOD to Advance Acquisition Reform, Address Barriers to Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense Tech Companies, Investors Urge DOD to Advance Acquisition Reform, Address Barriers to Innovation

    A group of 12 defense technology companies and venture capital firms provided the Department of Defense with four recommendations to reform acquisition, make revisions to specific planning, programming, budgeting and execution structures and address challenges to innovation. In a Friday letter to Defense Secretary and 2023 Wash100 awardee Lloyd Austin, the companies said they endorse […] More

  • SandboxAQ Secures DISA Quantum-Resistant Cryptography Prototype OTA; Jen Sovada Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SandboxAQ Secures DISA Quantum-Resistant Cryptography Prototype OTA; Jen Sovada Quoted

    SandboxAQ will implement its cryptographic management platform under a prototype other transaction authority agreement with the Defense Information Systems Agency. The company said Tuesday it will work with Microsoft and Deloitte & Touche as it delivers its SandboxAQ Security Suite to DISA through the prototype OTA. The SandboxAQ Security Suite works to provide agile cryptography […] More

  • Carahsoft's Alex Whitworth: CISA Supports Critical Infrastructure Organizations With Cybersecurity Performance Goals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
    in Cybersecurity

    Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: CISA Supports Critical Infrastructure Organizations With Cybersecurity Performance Goals

    Alex Whitworth, cybersecurity solutions vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, said the cross-sector cybersecurity performance goals released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency provide information technology and operational technology practices that could help organizations improve the cyber resilience of critical infrastructure. These practices are grouped into eight categories, including account security, data security, governance and […] More

  • GSA Issues RFI for CISA EINSTEIN System Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Issues RFI for CISA EINSTEIN System Modernization Effort

    The General Services Administration is soliciting technical feedback and insights from industry on technologies and techniques that could be used to detect and respond to cyberthreats within federal agency networks. GSA is issuing the follow-up request for information on behalf of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as the latter intends to modernize the EINSTEIN […] More

  • Intel-HPE-DOE Team Completes Compute Blade Installation Work on Aurora Supercomputer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel-HPE-DOE Team Completes Compute Blade Installation Work on Aurora Supercomputer

    Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy have finished the installation of 10,624 compute blades into the Aurora exascale supercomputer at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Aurora uses the HPE Slingshot high-performance fabric and comes with 1,024 storage nodes designed to provide 220 petabytes of capacity, Intel said Thursday. The supercomputer is […] More

  • Bechtel Concludes Chemical Weapons Destruction Operations in Colorado; Michael Costas Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel Concludes Chemical Weapons Destruction Operations in Colorado; Michael Costas Quoted

    Bechtel has completed the safe destruction of mustard agent-filled munitions at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado. The Bechtel Pueblo Team destroyed over 780,000 projectiles and mortar rounds under three campaigns involving three various sizes of chemical weapons and reported the milestone to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the company […] More

  • Hitachi Vantara Federal's Gary Hix: Agencies Should Advance Sustainability as They Approach IT Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Gary Hix: Agencies Should Advance Sustainability as They Approach IT Modernization

    Gary Hix, chief technology officer of Hitachi Vantara Federal, said federal agencies should consider the business case for advancing sustainability to help address the climate crisis as they pursue information technology modernization efforts. “In a fortuitous twist, sustainability and digital transformation go together as transformation drives sustainability. Moving to newer technologies will reduce emissions, because […] More