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Nichols Martin

a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, produces articles on the federal government's technology and business interests. The coverage of these articles include government contracting, cybersecurity, information technology, health care and national security.

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  • QTS Launches Cohesity-Powered Cloud Data Backup Services - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    QTS Launches Cohesity-Powered Cloud Data Backup Services

    QTS Realty Trust has chosen Cohesity to power cloud-based managed backup services intended to help clients simplify data security processes. The QTS Managed Backup offering uses hyperconverged technology to protect and recover files and applications through a single web-scale platform, the company said Wednesday. QTS engineers will monitor and track security issues for customers of the backup platform designed […] More

  • NOAA Requests Info on Open Data User Experience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NOAA Requests Info on Open Data User Experience

    The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks input from industry, academia and the general public on the advantages of open access to data through NOAA’s Big Data Project collaborators. A FedBizOpps notice posted Monday says NOAA will collect and use feedback to determine end user needs as well as the impact of agency data across the marketplace. […] More

  • Viasat Launches New Maritime Cybersecurity Software - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Viasat Launches New Maritime Cybersecurity Software

    Viasat has released a cybersecurity software geared to securely facilitate the transmission of critical data between ships at sea and onshore facilities. The integrated Mobile Dynamic Defense software uses a Defense in Depth model that combines multiple layers of security functions to constantly monitor and protect information in end-user devices, the company said Tuesday. MDD […] More

  • Lockheed, Navy Partner to Explore 3D Printing Robotic System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lockheed, Navy Partner to Explore 3D Printing Robotic System

    Lockheed Martin will examine the potential applications of machine learning and robotic technology to an additive manufacturing process under a two-year, $5.8M contract with the U.S. Navy‘s Office of Naval Research. The company said Monday its Advanced Technology Center will develop software models and modify sensors for multi-axis robots designed to inject material via laser […] More

  • Former Northrop CFO James Palmer Joins Vector Board of Directors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Northrop CFO James Palmer Joins Vector Board of Directors

    James F. Palmer, former corporate vice president and chief financial officer at Northrop Grumman, has been appointed as a member of Vector‘s board of directors. He holds over 45 years of financial expertise in the aerospace industry, having formerly held executive roles at Boeing and Visteon in addition to Northrop, Vector said Monday. As a […] More

  • Carahsoft, AppGuard Partner to Distribute Endpoint Protection Across Government - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft, AppGuard Partner to Distribute Endpoint Protection Across Government

    Carahsoft will distribute AppGuard‘s zero trust endpoint protection software under a new partnership leveraging the former’s Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement contract with NASA. The contract allows federal and state agencies to directly access the software via Carahsoft’s public and partner reseller network, Appguard said Monday. AppGuard’s autonomous endpoint security technology uses a zero-trust approach to […] More

  • Blue Cedar Joins Industry Effort to Update Open Source Cryptographic Module - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Blue Cedar Joins Industry Effort to Update Open Source Cryptographic Module

    Blue Cedar has partnered with four other technology companies to update a cryptographic module designed to secure data transfer across web servers and connected devices. San Francisco-based Blue Cedar said Thursday it will collaborate with Open SSL, Akamai, NetApp and VMware develop a new Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-2 module for the OpenSSL software library. The alliance seeks to help organizations […] More

  • Former Air Force Engineer Ben Liptak Joins Woolpert as Military Project Manager - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Former Air Force Engineer Ben Liptak Joins Woolpert as Military Project Manager

    Ben Liptak, former chief of project planning and programming at the U.S. Air Force, has been named project manager for Woolpert‘s military market area. The company said Tuesday Liptak brings civil engineering and project management experience to Woolpert’s projects that are in line with his past military work. He previously supervised a team composed of 33 engineers and […] More

  • NASA-Jacobs Team Completes Orion Spacecraft Parachute System Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NASA-Jacobs Team Completes Orion Spacecraft Parachute System Test

    Jacobs Engineering Group and NASA have concluded tests of a parachute system that would support re-entry activities of the Orion spacecraft. The team conducted the Capsule Parachute Assembly System‘s final qualification test at the U.S. Army‘s Yuma Proving Ground facility in Arizona, the company said Thursday. During the test, a C-17 aircraft dropped the Orion capsule from […] More

  • Harris to Develop Computing Processor System for Lockheed F-35s - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Harris to Develop Computing Processor System for Lockheed F-35s

    Harris has been selected to develop an integrated core processor for the F-35 aircraft through a partnership with Lockheed Martin. ICP will work to process data from the fighter aircraft’s communications, sensors, electronic warfare, control, guidance and avionics systems, Lockheed said Thursday. The F-35 prime contractor expects Harris to deliver the processors beginning in 2023 for […] More

  • Ginger Wierzbanowski: Northrop to Continue Support for Defense Intelligence Agency Through 'HELIOS' Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Ginger Wierzbanowski: Northrop to Continue Support for Defense Intelligence Agency Through ‘HELIOS’ Contract

    Northrop Grumman has secured a position on a $500M contract vehicle covering technical services to the Defense Intelligence Agency‘s science and technology missions. The company said Wednesday it is among the nine awardees on the HELIOS indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract that encompasses the research and development; intelligence; strategic warning; acquisition; and operational areas. Ginger Wierzbanowski, vice president […] More

  • AM General Receives Army Humvee Recapitalization Contract - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    AM General Receives Army Humvee Recapitalization Contract

    The U.S. Army has awarded AM General a $51.3M contract to refurbish High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles. The company said Wednesday it will disassemble, inspect and modify Humvees at the Red River Army Depot in Texas to address the service branch’s recapitalization requirements. AM General will equip selected vehicles with an anti-lock braking system, an electronic […] More