Jane Edwards

Carahsoft Technology announced that it partnered with LexisNexis Risk Solutions and Okta to provide government agency customers with a risk-based authentication platform to help them counter cyber fraud. The alliance will combine LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ LexID and other offerings with Okta’s ThreatInsight, Adaptive Multi-Factor Authentication and Identity Cloud platforms to help state and local government […] More

Robert Geckle, chairman and CEO of Airbus U.S. Space & Defense, said the company is planning to produce satellite laser communications terminals in the U.S. in the next couple of years, Breaking Defense reported Tuesday. “I’m seeing a real strong demand signal for laser comms, for investment in laser communication terminals. Also star trackers, also […] More

The Government Accountability Office has recommended that the undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment at the Department of Defense ensure that the Missile Defense Agency gets an independent technical risk assessment and cost estimate for the Glide Phase Interceptor program prior to transitioning to the product development phase. GAO said Thursday it made the recommendation after […] More

Matt Mandrgoc, head of U.S. public sector at Zoom Video Communications, said agencies should secure government communications by implementing platforms that could help safeguard the exchange of sensitive data during meetings and one of those tools is the Zoom for Government platform. Mandrgoc wrote in a blog post published Friday that Zoom for Government comes […] More

Gregory Bowman, chief innovation officer of Siemens Government Technologies, said adopting digital thread and digital twin technologies could help government and corporate organizations address challenges associated with reshoring manufacturing supply chains. A digital twin uses machine learning, simulation and reasoning to improve decision-making, while a digital thread is a data-based architecture that connects supply chain […] More

KBR has announced the availability on the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program Marketplace of its cloud-based platform designed to facilitate the collection, archival, distribution and review of surveillance evidence gathered by mobile users. KBR Vaault for Public Safety Video Evidence is a commercial cloud and mission service offering that could help organizations consolidate, retrieve, […] More

Defense ministers from France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the U.K. and the Netherlands will allocate approximately $28 million in funding to explore novel platforms for their future helicopters under NATO’s Next Generation Rotorcraft Capability project. The six allies will work with industry to study open systems architecture, hybrid and electric propulsion and other options as they […] More

Northrop Grumman performed a ground demonstration of a laser communications system as part of a prototype satellite constellation for the first tranche of the National Defense Space Architecture’s transport layer. The company said Tuesday Mynaric supplied the laser communications in the space domain and Innoflight provided encryption, decryption and other components of its prototype architecture. […] More