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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 Northrop Grumman-led industry team has secured the National Aeronautic Association’s Robert J. Collier Trophy in recognition of its work on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The company said Thursday it partnered with L3Harris Technologies, Ball Aerospace, Raytheon Technologies and NeXolve on the space deployable telescope, which launched in December 2021. Northrop led the design, […] More
Juvare has launched a new business unit to advance the delivery of national security and crisis response software offerings to U.S. government customers. President Patrick Lane and Chief Operating Officer Patrick Macfarlane will oversee Juvare Federal & Defense, which will accelerate program delivery through its independent operating framework, the company said Wednesday. JFD offers a […] More
Ramaco Carbon and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are partnering on a two-year project to develop a process to facilitate large-scale production of coal-derived graphite, a key component used in manufacturing batteries for electric vehicles. ORNL and Ramaco are jointly funding the project through a field work proposal for the Fossil Energy […] More
Lockheed Martin used the Department of Defense’s 5G network to demonstrate the capability of its analytics tools to improve aircraft readiness by providing maintainers with real-time data to detect aircraft issues and speed up the decision-making process. Lockheed developed and demonstrated its applications before U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army officials as part of the […] More
Northrop Grumman will work with Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works arm, Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business, Long Wave and Crescent Systems as part of a team that will compete for a U.S. Navy program that seeks to replace the service’s fleet of E-6B Mercury aircraft. Henry Cyr, director of multidomain command and control capture programs […] More
Sierra Nevada Corp. is offering a cloud-based managed security service meant to help defense industrial base customers protect their sensitive data, intellectual property and operational technology from cybersecurity threats. SNC said its Security Operations Center service offering is built on Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud and uses the Elastic Security stack to safeguard OT systems, controlled […] More
The first 10 satellites for the Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking Layer of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture launched Sunday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The second batch of satellites for the Tranche 0 layer, which will demonstrate low-latency military communications to enable warfighters to […] More
Boeing subsidiary Insitu achieved a record duration flight of 25.5 hours with its 150-pound unmanned aircraft system on a multipayload mission. Insitu said Thursday the Integrator UAS enabled the customer to keep persistent eyes on a target without deploying two or more lower endurance platforms. “Customers can focus on the mission and have confidence to […] More
Tony Frazier, executive vice president and general manager of public sector Earth intelligence at Maxar Technologies, said the company is in talks with the U.S. Space Force and other agencies within the Department of Defense on how to use satellite images of objects in orbit to detect malicious activity and other threats in space, SpaceNews […] More
Amazon Web Services is working to help health care organizations address workforce challenges through an accelerator program, Modern Healthcare reported Tuesday. AWS announced at a conference the selection of 23 startups for the program, which seeks to help business leaders improve their business model, cloud architecture and regulatory pathways over a five-week period. The company […] More
The Department of Defense has awarded the first batch of task orders to Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft and Oracle under the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. In December, the four companies won positions on the potential $8 billion JWCC contract, which will enable DOD to directly procure enterprisewide cloud service […] More
A Jacobs business and CODE Plus, a Fairfax, Virginia-based woman-owned small business, will work to provide scientific and engineering support services to NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, under a two-year, Mentor-Protege agreement. Jacobs Space Exploration Group will serve as a mentor under NASA’s Mentor-Protege Program with a focus on helping CODE Plus […] More
