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Inmarsatâ€™s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Ka-Band Satcom Tech Essential for Airborne ISR Missions

Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy forÂ Inmarsat Government,Â has said she believes the adoption of Ka-band satellite communications technology can help the military address interoperability requirements for airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a two-part blog post published Thursday that Ka-bandâ€™s capacity to cover frequencies that civilian and military […] More

by Jane Edwards January 26, 2018, 10:30 am
in Featured, General, Healthcare IT, News

Jerry Hogge: Leidos Team On Track to Complete 2-Month Optimization Period for DoD EHR System

Jerry Hogge, senior vice president of Leidosâ€™ health business,Â has said the Leidos-led team is on schedule to implement the optimization process for the Defense Departmentâ€™s commercial electronic health records system over a two-month period, Nextgov reported Wednesday. The report said DoD and the industry team will address the remaining â€œtrouble ticketsâ€ received from four test […] More

by Jane Edwards January 25, 2018, 10:20 am
in Featured, General, News, Products & Service

Nick Michaelides: Cisco Cloud Security Platform Receives FedRAMP ATO

A Cisco-built cloud security offering has received an authority to operate at the moderate level from the program management office of the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. Nick Michaelides, vice president of Cisco’s U.S. federal sales organization, wrote in a blog entryÂ posted Wednesday the Cloudlock platform also met eligibility requirements for impact level 2 […] More

by Scott Nicholas January 25, 2018, 7:51 am
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Iridium Eyes March 18 Launch for 5th â€˜NEXTâ€™ Satellite Batch; Matt Desch Comments

Iridium CommunicationsÂ plans to launch on March 18 at 8:19 a.m. Pacific time the fifth batch of 10Â Iridium NEXTÂ satellites aboardÂ aÂ SpaceX-builtÂ Falcon 9Â rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The planned launch would bring the total number of Iridium NEXT satellites in orbit to 50 as part of a potential $3 billionÂ program to replace an existing constellation […] More

by Jane Edwards January 23, 2018, 5:20 am
in Executive Spotlight, General

Executive Spotlight: Interview with Robin Lineberger, Deloitte’s Global and U.S. Aerospace & Defense Lead

“Mark my words: A combination of airplane and motorcar is coming. You may smile. But it will come.” –Henry Ford, 1940 The future is here, and with the advent of unmanned aerial systems, autonomous vehicles and the impossibly well-connected Internet of Things, that which was science fiction is now science fact–do not be afraid. The […] More

by Andy Reed January 23, 2018, 4:30 am
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Keith Salisbury: Pivotal, USAF Team Up to Develop Software App for Air Refueling Tanker Mgmt

Keith Salisbury, vice president for U.S. federal sales at Pivotal Software, told Fox News in an interview published Friday how the company works to help the U.S. military execute their missions and build up their warfighting capabilities through new technology platforms. Pivotal and other tech companies traveled to the U.S. Air Forceâ€™s Combined Air Operations […] More

by Jane Edwards January 22, 2018, 3:41 am
in Executive Spotlight, General

Executive Spotlight: Interview with Ray Spicer, Director of Defense and Intelligence for IBM U.S. Federal

Artificial intelligence has seen a massive uptake in the past decade, as major tech companies and up-and-coming start-ups plant their roots in AI-related disciplines like machine learning, natural language processing, image recognition and neural networks. As of 2018, the seeds of innovation are blossoming as human interest in the nonhuman continues to grow. There is […] More

by Andy Reed January 17, 2018, 4:32 am
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American Systems to Build Air Force’s Emergency Notification Platform; Peter Smith Comments

American Systems has won a potential five-year, $68.6 million task order to help the U.S. Air Force develop and implement a emergency mass notification system. The companyÂ said TuesdayÂ it will build a cloud-based enterprise EMNS infrastructure for the service branch’s personnel to receive alerts in the event of a critical situation. â€œWe are honored to have […] More

by Joanna Crews January 17, 2018, 4:24 am
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Cubic to Enter Full-Rate Production on Army Satellite Antennas; Mike Twyman Comments

A business unit of CubicÂ has received approval from the U.S. Army to commence full rate production of satellite antenna systems for the service branch’sÂ Transportable Tactical Command Communications program. Cubic Mission Solutions will begin to produce GATR expeditionary satellite antennas forÂ deployment to multiple Army units, the company said Tuesday. Mike Twyman, president of Cubic Mission Solutions, […] More

by Joanna Crews January 16, 2018, 10:45 am
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Executive Spotlight: Interview with PV Puvvada, President of Federal Systems at Unisys

What a time to be alive, especially in the business of government IT. Several policy, business and technology trends are converging to provide game changing opportunities for government agencies to leverage and improve their mission outcomes. The U.S. government is making moves toward a comprehensive approach in modernizing information technology systems, as the administration is […] More

by Andy Reed January 16, 2018, 4:25 am
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Lynn Dugle: Engility Seeks to Address Clearance Issues Via Continuous Monitoring

EngilityÂ CEOÂ LynnÂ Dugle has said the company has started to pilot continuous evaluation initiatives in an effort to address issues related to security clearances. â€œWhat we know from a community is about 80 percent of people who lose clearances do so for financial reasons,â€ Dugle told Defense One in an interview published Thursday. â€œUnder continuous monitoring, instead […] More

by Jane Edwards January 12, 2018, 10:48 am
in Big Data & Analytics News, Featured, General, News

Shaun Bierweiler: Hortonworks to Back 2020 Census With Data Processing Tools

Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of U.S. public sector at Hortonworks, has said the company will work to provide several data technology platforms for the U.S. Census Bureau in support of the 2020Â Census project under a contract awarded in 2017. Bierweiler told Datanami in an interview published Tuesday that the software company will offer its Hortonworks […] More

by Jane Edwards January 11, 2018, 11:00 am