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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.
A Capgemini Research Institute study has found that 73 percent of aerospace and defense companies have a long-term roadmap in place for digital twin technology, up from 57 percent of A&D organizations surveyed in 2021. The institute said Thursday it surveyed 150 A&D organizations in April and found that such entities said they plan to […] More
The U.S. Air Force has designated the aircraft that Boeing is building under NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project as the X-66A. X-66A is an X-plane meant to help the U.S. achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as stated in the White House’s Aviation Climate Action Plan, the space agency said Monday. An industry […] More
Google Cloud has submitted its security package for Department of Defense Impact Level 5 in a machine-readable format, called Open Security Control Assessment Language, via the government’s web-based application eMass. OSCAL represents security control assessments developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and is meant to automate security assessments and facilitate the sharing […] More
Stacie Ohler, a defense industry veteran, has joined Ultra Intelligence & Communications as senior director of strategic business development, she announced in a LinkedIn post. She brings to the role over 15 years of defense and national security experience in program management, business development, research and development, acquisitions, operational planning, wargaming, campaign design and intelligence. […] More
ManTech has developed the zero trust reference architecture for the Department of Defense’s government laboratory designed to test zero trust platforms for agencies reporting to DOD. “ManTech’s Zero Trust Architecture is designed to improve the enterprise security posture as agencies undergo digital transformation and cloud migration,” David Hathaway, executive vice president and general manager of […] More
A team of researchers supported by quantum information company Infleqtion at the University of Colorado has made an advancement in quantum navigation by combining quantum sensing with machine learning to demonstrate a quantum-enabled accelerometer designed for use in positioning, navigation and timing. The software-configured accelerator exhibited a reduction in sensor volume greater than a factor […] More
A new Veracode study shows that 82 percent of applications developed by public sector organizations exhibit security flaws compared with 74 percent of applications created by private sector entities. Veracode said Monday it analyzed data gathered from over 27 million scans across 750,000 applications for the State of Software Security 2023 report and found that […] More
At least 30 percent of federal agencies have been given another year to transition from the Networx contract to the General Services Administration’s 15-year, $50 billion Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions vehicle for telecommunications services, Federal Times reported Thursday. The COVID-19 pandemic and supply chain challenges further disrupted the shift to the EIS contract, which was awarded […] More
Caveonix is offering organizations transitioning to its hybrid cloud platform and committing to a three-year contract period up to two years of complimentary coverage for transition. Caveonix Cloud is a platform designed to manage security, governance and compliance across hybrid multicloud environments and uses Neural-Insight artificial intelligence-driven automation to help organizations gain visibility, perform continuous […] More
Space Systems Command has debuted a center in Chantilly, Virginia, to encourage collaboration among companies and government agencies to accelerate the delivery of commercial space systems to the military. SSC said Tuesday the Commercial Space Marketplace for Innovation and Collaboration center, or COSMIC, is a partnership between the command and Virginia Tech Applied Research Corp. […] More
Several Virginia-based defense, aerospace and government services companies landed spots on the 2023 Fortune 1000 list, which ranks the 1,000 largest U.S. public and private corporations by total revenue, Virginia Business reported Monday. Boeing and Raytheon Technologies, previously based in Chicago and Massachusetts, respectively, relocated their headquarters to Arlington County in 2022. New to the […] More
A new Deltek analysis shows that the U.S. Air Force’s spending on other transaction agreements for cybersecurity platforms dropped by 15 percent from $134 million in fiscal year 2021 to $113 million in FY 2022. FY 2022 spending level remains 30 percent above the service branch’s FY 2020 level, which stands at $86 million, John […] More
