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Matt Desch: Iridium Expects Late-March Launch for 5th â€˜NEXTâ€™ Satellite Batch

Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium Communications, has said the company is likely to launch on March 29 the fifth batch of 10Â Iridium NEXTÂ satellites aboardÂ aÂ SpaceX-builtÂ Falcon 9Â rocket, SpaceNews reported Monday. Desch, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, added the company expects subsequent launches to occur every five to six weeks to complete the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation. The sixth […] More

by Jane Edwards February 27, 2018, 3:51 am
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DISA Completes SIPRNet Classified Network Modernization Project

The Defense Information Systems Agency has wrapped up modernization work on the Secret Internet Protocol Router NetworkÂ as part of the SIPRNet Access Migration Project designed to facilitate network connectivity for mission partners DISA said Thursday it transitioned SIPRNet into a virtual network, reduced the networkâ€™s size and raised the bandwidth capacity from 1G to 10G […] More

by David Smith February 27, 2018, 2:57 am
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Reports: DIUx Head Raj Shah Steps Down

Raj Shah, head of the Defense Departmentâ€™s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental,Â resigned from his post Thursday after a nearly two-year stint with the organization, Federal News Radio reported Monday. Navy Capt. Sean HeritageÂ will step into the acting leadership role at DIUx. Shah, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, took the helm in May 2016 after then-Defense Secretary Ashton […] More

by David Smith February 27, 2018, 1:19 am
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CAE Delivers Predator RPA Training System to Italian Air Force; Gene Colabatistto Comments

Italy’s air force has received aÂ CAE-built Predator Mission TrainerÂ that is designed to train military operators ofÂ General Atomics‘ remotely piloted aircraft. CAE said SundayÂ it worked withÂ General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business to develop the trainer that representsÂ the ItalianÂ PredatorÂ AÂ RPA during phase one of delivery. Gene Colabatistto, president of CAE’s defense and security group, the company applied its decades […] More

by Nichols Martin February 26, 2018, 10:32 am
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Survey Highlights Data Sharing Opportunity in Federal IT Modernization Efforts; Red Hatâ€™s David Egts Comments

A new report by MeriTalk has found that 73 percent of federal information technology leaders said that deriving data from legacy applications is vital in efforts to advance government reform and use of shared services. The publicationÂ said Thursday it conducted an online survey of 275 federal IT leaders in January for the report, which was […] More

by Jane Edwards February 23, 2018, 4:00 am
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Thales: Federal Agencies Saw 20% Rise in Data Breaches; Nick Jovanovic Comments

A new report by Thales says 57 percent of U.S. federal government respondents claimed their agencies experienced a data breach over the past year. The figure in the “2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Federal Edition” shows a 23-percent increase from the 2017 report, which revealed thatÂ 34 percent of respondents encountered a breach, Thales said Thursday. […] More

by Ramona Adams February 22, 2018, 9:35 am
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Ashish Khot: Technomile to Integrate Caroll Publishing Data Into GovCon Suite

Technomile andÂ Carroll Publishing have partnered with the intent to offer contact and account data products for government contractors. McLean, Virginia-basedÂ Technomile said WednesdayÂ it aims to help the company’s GovCon SuiteÂ customers use data in their capture and contract lifecycle management processes. GovCon Suite comprises cloud-based applications for vendors to track contracts and task orders, gather agency spending […] More

by Nichols Martin February 22, 2018, 8:38 am
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SAIC, Community DNS Jointly Offer DDoS Protection Services; Paul Welch Comments

Science Applications International Corp.Â has partnered withÂ Community DNS to introduce a suite of cybersecurity and intelligence service offerings designed to protect information technology platforms from distributed denial of service attacks. SAIC said Wednesday the services will work to help clients avoid DDoS and other domain name system-based attacks without requiring them to purchase software or hardware. […] More

by Ramona Adams February 22, 2018, 7:45 am
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Red Hatâ€™s David Egts: Microservices Tech Could Help Simplify App Deployment

David Egts, chief technologist forÂ Red Hatâ€™s public sector, told MeriTalk in an interviewÂ published Wednesday that the microservices technology works to help the developer split complex, large applications into small components and share them with other members of the DevOps team. â€œInstead of one big hulking team working on one big hulking application, you can have […] More

by Jane Edwards February 22, 2018, 6:53 am
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Red Hatâ€™s David Egts: Federal IT Teams Play a Role in Public Cloud Security

David Egts, chief technologist forÂ Red Hatâ€™s public sector, has said federal information technology leaders should take responsibility in ensuring the security of their agenciesâ€™ public cloud platforms. Egts wrote in a GCN guest post published Tuesday that agency IT professionals seeking to secure applications in software-as-a-service cloud environments should correctly establish content permissions and conduct […] More

by Jane Edwards February 21, 2018, 6:25 am
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Inmarsatâ€™s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Integrated Satcom Architecture Needs Industry Innovation

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy forÂ Inmarsat Government,Â has saidÂ she believes an integrated satellite communications architecture should incorporate industryâ€™s technological advancements to change the cultural misperception about military and commercial satcom. â€œFor space programs, it remains imperative to incorporate advancements from the commercial sector into the baseline [Defense Department] architecture as a […] More

by Jane Edwards February 20, 2018, 9:29 am
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COMSAT to Deliver Iridium Certus Broadband Service to DoD; Matt Desch Comments

COMSAT has agreed to provide Iridium Communicationsâ€™ broadband service to warfighters and other users within the Defense Department by mid-2018. COMSAT will deliver voice calling, telematics data, environmental assessments, usage statistics, staff tracking applications and other capabilities to DoD users and military personnel through the Iridium Certus broadband service offering under the agreement, Iridium said […] More

by Jane Edwards February 20, 2018, 1:00 am