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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.
Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has observed espionage methods being used in cyberspace are somewhat similar to tactics that spies use in the physical world, Defense Systems reported Thursday. He told Defense Systems in an interview that many hacking groups target the private sector and he believes the U.S. should […] More
Google will collaborate with NASA and multiple technology companies to develop new tools to monitor commercial unmanned aerial system operations in U.S. airspace, Bloomberg reported Friday. Alan Levin writes Google, Amazon, Harris Corp. and Verizon are among the companies that have agreed to help the agency build a UAS traffic management infrastructure. More than 100 other private […] More
BAE Systems and Babcock International want to join a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries–Kawasaki Heavy Industries alliance in pursuit of a $50 billion contract to build submarines for the Australian military, Defense World reported Friday. The two British defense contractors maintain operations in Australia. Defense World quoted a Japanese defense official as saying Mitsubishi seeks information on […] More
Mercury Systems has landed a $5.2 million contract to supply radar subsystems and digital processing tools to a defense company that is building a missile weapon system. Mercury said Wednesday it booked the order during the fourth quarter of its 2015 fiscal year and is scheduled to deliver the products in the coming quarters. Didier […] More
General Dynamics‘ U.K. arm has received a $605 million contract to extend in-service support of Scout special vehicle platforms for the British army through 2024. The company said Thursday it will assemble, integrate and test 489 Scout SVs at a newly opened facility in Oakdale, South Wales, and perform similar work on another 100 platforms […] More
John Zarour, director of state and local government and K-12 at Splunk, wrote in a piece published Wednesday on GCN that agencies should re-evaluate their approach to cybersecurity and invest in modern tools to avoid a breach. Zarour said he believes state and local agencies can also be targets of an attack like the U.S. […] More
CenturyLink has embarked on multiple data center expansion projects over the past six months in an effort to address an increasing consumer demand for physical and virtual infrastructure services. The company said Wednesday its global data center capacity has increased by 10.8 megawatts to more than 185 megawatts. “Many of our customers are turning to […] More
The U.S. National Science Foundation has awarded Johns Hopkins University a five-year, $2.2 million grant to educate graduate students about methods to identify and guard information technology systems against cyber threats. JHU’s Information Security Institute will use the money for cybersecurity training of up to four students every year through the university’s master of science […] More
A Communications & Power Industries division has received a five-year, $7.6 million contract to build structural enclosures for the U.S. Navy‘s airborne electronic warfare system. Radant Technologies will continue to provide EW radomes and related support services to the military branch through 2020, CPI said Monday. The U.S. Defense Logistics Agency‘s aviation arm awarded the […] More
NASA has selected a Teledyne Technologies subsidiary to integrate a hyperspectral imaging technology with the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing platform. Teledyne Brown Engineering will also provide captured imagery to NASA through the multi-year, $15 million contract, the company said Monday. The German Aerospace Center developed the MUSES spectrometer to collect approximately 27 million square miles of […] More
The Oregon Department of Justice has awarded CSG Government Solutions a contract to perform quality assurance studies on the state’s child support system modernization program. CSG said Tuesday it will also perform risk assessment, quality control evaluation and independent testing of a Child Support Enforcement Automated System for the state agency. Deneen Omer, director of […] More
Boeing has developed a digital waveform generator with the intent to offer the technology to the U.S. Air Force for use on the next set of Global Positioning System III satellites. The company tested its platform’s ability to generate digitally modulated GPS signals in multiple code combinations during a recent demonstration, Boeing said Monday. “Our […] More
