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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.
OneWeb has agreed to combine its satellite broadband connectivity with cloud and edge computing services and capabilities of Amazon Web Services as part of efforts to expand the delivery of vertical and horizontal services to customers and communities worldwide. OneWeb said Monday it signed a letter of intent with AWS to collaborate and advance business […] More
Lockheed Martin has received a contract modification valued at approximately $48.5 million from the U.S. Navy to help the service branch field and sustain the Aegis weapon system. The company’s rotary and mission systems business will perform the majority of contract work in Moorestown, New Jersey, and the rest in Dahlgren, Virginia, through December 2023, […] More
Rick Wagner, president of Microsoft’s federal arm and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said he sees as a primary challenge the emergence of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning and automation and how the federal government can take advantage of such technologies, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. He told the publication in an […] More
Allen Badeau, chief technology officer at Empower AI, said the U.S. needs to enact comprehensive legislation to advance the governmentwide adoption of artificial intelligence. “New legislation should streamline the AI development process, creating cohesive and measurable benchmarks for agencies at the beginning stages of their AI journey,” he wrote in an article published Sunday in […] More
Stephanie Turner, an inclusion and diversity champion for over 25 years, has been named vice president of diversity and chief sustainability officer at Mitre. She will oversee Mitre’s inclusion, diversity and social innovation efforts and sustainability capabilities across environmental, social and governance areas in this expanded role, the nonprofit corporation said Thursday. Julie Bowen, senior […] More
John Lee, vice president for cloud solutions at Carahsoft Technology, said the State Risk and Authorization Management Program, an independent nonprofit organization launched in 2021, unveiled an early-stage security maturity evaluation tool for cloud offerings, called Security Snapshot, in January. Lee wrote in a blog post published Thursday that Security Snapshot offers detailed information on […] More
Textron Systems has won a potential four-year, $54 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop a mine countermeasure system under the service branch’s Magnetic and Acoustic Generation Next Unmanned Superconducting Sweep program. The Navy received three offers for the MAGNUSS cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which has a base period of three years valued at approximately $20.1 […] More
Lance Spencer, client executive vice president of defense for AT&T, said the company has facilitated the delivery of 5G services at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado as part of efforts to help the Air and Space Forces modernize communications and their mission capabilities under the Enterprise Information Technology-as-a-Service program. Spencer wrote in a blog […] More
Lockheed Martin’s Sikorsky subsidiary will build an uncrewed hybrid-electric vertical-take-off-and-landing aircraft prototype in partnership with General Electric’s aerospace business. GE Aerospace will provide a CT7 turboshaft engine, 1 megawatt-class generator and related power electronics for the fully autonomous Hybrid-Electric Demonstrator aircraft and support the HEX project by building on the hybrid electric propulsion platform it […] More
A report from the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology presents several recommendations to modernize wildland firefighting and one of those is the need to adopt technologies that could help enhance situational awareness during active fires, American City and County reported Tuesday. Anthony Robbins, vice president of NVIDIA’s federal arm, said automated drones […] More
Marino Carducci, most recently executive director of commercial engines at Pratt & Whitney, has been promoted to vice president of military engine production at the Raytheon Technologies subsidiary. He started his career at Hamilton Sundstrand and managed engines and control systems there as a director, according to his LinkedIn profile. Carducci then worked at United […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has made a strategic investment in cloud automation platforms provider Morpheus Data. Founded in 2015, Morpheus Data provides a platform that offers a unified approach to hybrid cloud management and operations and enables the integration of third-party tools into a self-service framework in support of public sector organizations and companies, SAIC […] More
