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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.
James Lackey, senior vice president for mission solutions at Parsons, said GPS is key to delivering precision navigation data and guidance and the U.S. military should protect GPS receivers from spoofing, jamming and other attacks by adopting a technology that negates GPS reliance. Lackey wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Assured Positioning System […] More
Doug Magee, president of government services group at Day & Zimmermann, emphasized the importance of people as a valuable resource in advancing and supporting the U.S. national security mission. In a blog post published Thursday, Magee mentioned the need to advance innovation by integrating emerging technologies and other tools that would enable employees to perform […] More
Industry and government experts talked about the future of cybersecurity at a summit held in Tallahassee, Florida, and panelists highlighted multifactor authentication and zero trust during a discussion at the event, Government Technology reported Thursday. Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP Federal, stressed the importance of implementing different forms of MFA. “The problem is […] More
IBM has unveiled a set of capabilities designed to help government agencies, businesses and other organizations protect critical data as they transition to post-quantum cryptography. The IBM Quantum Safe technology is composed of three tools: IBM Quantum Safe Explorer, Quantum Safe Advisor and Quantum Safe Remediator, the company said Wednesday. The IBM Quantum Safe Explorer, […] More
State and local government agencies looking to generate insights from large volumes of data and speed up the decision-making process are turning to an emerging data management design concept, called data fabric, to facilitate the retrieval, integration and sharing of information across disparate data sources, StateTech Magazine reported Wednesday. One of the two approaches to […] More
Anduril Industries and Aalyria intend to advance command and control of national security capabilities across all domains by combining their two technologies under a teaming agreement. Anduril said Tuesday it will integrate its Lattice software with Aalyria’s Spacetime networking orchestration platform through the partnership. The Lattice open operating system works to create an operating view […] More
A new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and LexisNexis Risk Solutions has found that 63 percent of surveyed government officials said their agencies have gone back to pre-pandemic levels of identity-related benefit fraud. The IDentification in a Post-Pandemic World Report covered responses from 986 government executives, general consumers and self-identified identity crime victims […] More
A new SolarWinds survey has found that 60 percent of public sector information technology decision-makers said they consider foreign governments as the top source of security threats to their organizations, while 58 percent and 52 percent of respondents cited untrained insiders and the general hacking community as primary threat sources, respectively. The software company said […] More
Maxar Technologies is scheduled to hand over to L3Harris Technologies the first of 16 satellite buses meant for a Space Development Agency constellation in low-Earth orbit in early 2024, SpaceNews reported Monday. L3Harris selected the Westminster, Colorado-based space technology company to provide the Maxar 300 satellite bus for SDA’s Tracking Layer. In July 2022, SDA […] More
UberEther has unveiled an identity, credential and access management platform meant to help government agencies and suppliers update their legacy identity systems. IAM Advantage is a preconfigured platform that can be fielded in the cloud or hybrid platforms, on-premises or in disconnected environments and integrates technologies from several identity providers, including Radiant Logic, SailPoint, Ping […] More
A new Deltek analysis shows that the U.S. Air Force’s spending on other transaction agreements for cloud-based prototypes has dropped since fiscal year 2020. Data indicates that the service branch’s spending on cloud-related OTAs fell from $131 million in FY 2020 to $35 million in FY 2021 and bounced back a bit in FY 2022 […] More
Raytheon Technologies will now build an operational architecture for the U.S. Air Force after demonstrating a network designed to enable warfighters to accelerate the decision-making process on the battlefield by facilitating tactical data sharing across disparate networks. The Common Tactical Edge Network developed by Raytheon subsidiary Collins Aerospace could help advance the Joint All Domain […] More
