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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.
Lumen Technologies joined other companies and organizations in signing the White House Infrastructure Talent Challenge and made pledges to build up the workforce through investments in workforce development and training programs. Lumen said Wednesday it will invest more than $80 million each year to hire nearly 1,000 employees to support the expansion of its fiber […] More
A procurement automation platform from Paperless Innovations has achieved “In Process” designation at the moderate impact level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The FedRAMP In Process status will enable Paperless to offer to federal, state and local government agencies its cloud-based Actus platform meant to help organizations automate management of procurement card […] More
The federal government released a 2021 action plan outlining specific measures that agencies should take to advance the Federal Data Strategy and a survey by Data Foundation and Guidehouse showed that 63 percent of federal chief data officers said they began or completed implementing five of the six priority agency actions listed in the plan. […] More
A National Security Space Launch mission, called U.S. Space Force-44, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off Tuesday from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deploy multiple satellites into geosynchronous Earth orbit. The Space Force said Tuesday the Space Launch Delta 45 unit supported the USSF-44 mission, which included the Long […] More
The Defense Information Systems Agency has cleared and issued the Security Technical Implementation Guide for Rancher Government Solutions’ RKE2 offering. RKE2, also known as RKE Government, is RGS’ next-generation Kubernetes distribution platform designed to adhere to security requirements of federal government agencies by regularly scanning components for common vulnerabilities and exposures, among other functions. DISA […] More
The U.S. Navy selected Remus 300 unmanned underwater vehicle for the Lionfish small UUV program in March and Duane Fotheringham, president of unmanned systems at HII Mission Technologies, said the company is adopting an open systems architecture in UUV and autonomy software development to align with the service’s vision of fielding technologies that can plug […] More
Brian O’Donnell, a vice president at Carahsoft Technology, talked about how the company helps government agency customers shift from endpoint detection and response toward a more holistic approach to cybersecurity. “With the executive orders that came out this year and the instruction towards zero trust, we’ve seen that some of those EDR implementations help to […] More
Some federal agencies including the U.S. Postal Service and the International Development Finance Corporation are now adopting preconfigured, plug-and-play technologies to speed up deployment and meet their operational requirements, FedTech Magazine reported Thursday. Jonathan Alboum, federal chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said the use of plug-and-play systems not only reflects the transition to a service- […] More
Jon Kirchner, a 30-year industry executive, has been named chief product officer at geospatial intelligence company BlackSky Technology. He will be part of BlackSky’s executive leadership team and oversee the delivery of intelligence and dynamic monitoring products and services to customers, the company said Wednesday. “Jon’s leadership will play a critical role as we advance […] More
The Department of Homeland Security will hold an industry day on Nov. 7 to discuss the Enterprise CLoud Infrastructure Provider Suite program currently in development. DHS will provide an overview of the award structure, projected spend and scope of the proposed ECLIPS program and host a question-and-answer session related to the effort, according to a […] More
Allen Badeau, chief technology officer of Empower AI, said the Department of Defense and other government agencies should treat artificial intelligence as a core technology element and as part of their foundational information technology infrastructure as they look to advance the use of AI to speed up the decision-making process. Badeau wrote in an opinion […] More
Technology consulting firm iTech AG announced that it will support GovCIO’s Salient CRGT subsidiary as the latter delivers information technology services to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of EPA’s Enterprise Support Services and Endpoint Technology program. In September, GovCIO announced the award of a potential seven-year, $524 million task order through the General Services […] More
