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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
Microsoft has moved to expand the reach of its educational program that aims to develop active-duty and former soldiers’ information technology skills for their civilian career transition. The company will roll out Microsoft Software & Systems Academy courses at four U.S. Army bases in 2016 and at another installation in 2017, Chris Cortez, vice president of military affairs […] More
Orbital ATK has established a new regional office in Singapore for a push to expand its footprint and better serve clients in the greater Asian commercial and defense markets. “About 20 percent of the company’s sales are to international customers and we are seeking further growth in these important markets,” Tim Shephard, corporate vice president of international business […] More
A Huntington Ingalls Industries division has updated and tested a catapult system aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln as part of a ship modernization and maintenance initiative. The U.S. Navy and HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding crew launched steam-powered catapults on the aircraft carrier approximately 20 times during the system’s “no-load” test, the company said Wednesday. “The test reminds us that this is […] More
The General Services Administration has awarded Spaceflight a spot on the agency’s consolidated professional services contract vehicle, allowing the company to offer small-satellite launch services to the federal government. Spaceflight said Wednesday agencies can request for quotations for microsat or cubesat launch service offerings from the company and place orders electronically via the GSA Advantage‘s eBuy online platform. […] More
Carahsoft and Hewlett Packard Enterprise have partnered in a bid to help government clients manage risks associated with big data through the companies’ information governance strategy. Patrick Gallagher, a vice president at Carahsoft, wrote in an article published Wednesday that information governance refers to technologies and functions that organizations implement in order to obtain value from […] More
The U.S. Army plans to launch a third iteration of its Cyber Innovation Challenge to identify micro-cloud management technology that can support the military branch’s cyber threat defense missions. The competition will be open to commercial and academic organizations and calls for the development of software-based prototypes that will work to manage disparate cloud computing architectures for […] More
The Department of Homeland Security has informed vendors that it has cancelled the agency’s $675 million Cyber Centric Mission Support Services acquisition program, FCW reported Tuesday. Mark Rockwell writes the contract would have covered administrative and technical support to DHS’ Office of Cybersecurity and Communications as well as its National Protection and Programs Directorate. A DHS contracting officer told […] More
The U.S. Navy has demonstrated Raytheon-built computing applications onboard the lead ship in the branch’s Zumwalt class of destroyers. Raytheon said Wednesday the DDG 1000‘s total ship computing environment and engineering control systems functioned during a week-long trial at sea. The TSCE infrastructure comprises a combat management, ship and machinery control, embedded training, damage control and C4I […] More
Cornerstone OnDemand has obtained a Federal Risk Authorization Management Program certification to offer the company’s cloud-based talent management platform to government agencies. Cornerstone said Tuesday it aims to help agency human resource managers recruit, train and engage workers through its software offering. “We look forward to continuing to serve the talent management needs of federal agencies and […] More
Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a contract of an undisclosed value to support the U.S. Marine Corps Special Operations Command’s tactical communications training program. The company said Tuesday it will help the command train Marine Raiders to operate modern data and radio communication systems. MARSOC also asked the company to provide technical strategies for […] More
Amazon Web Services has developed a framework meant to help agencies and vendors architect Trusted Internet Connection-ready cloud computing tools that comply with the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s moderate baseline security requirements. The Guidance for TIC Readiness on AWS was produced after the cloud service provider completed its FedRAMP-Trusted Internet Connection Overlay testing program, Chad Woolf, AWS’ director […] More
A Serco Group–Lockheed Martin team has built and installed the first of five anti-interference radar systems for the British defense ministry under a contract awarded in 2010. Serco said Thursday the Remote Radar Head located at Trimingham in Norfolk, England, is now fully operational and is equipped with a TPS-77 radar that aims to minimize wind turbine interference with air defense radar technology. Serco acts […] More
