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Stacy Schwartz, vice president of public safety within AT&T‘s government solutions business, told Federal News Radio in an interview published Tuesday she has worked to hire a diverse team within her organization to gain different perspectives on how to use and develop technology. “I think that does give us a competitive advantage, because we’re coming in to […] More
Carl De Groote, senior director for Defense Department programs at Cisco Systems, has said DoD should combine highly skilled cyber professionals with automated technology in efforts to protect its networks and data from cyber attacks and facilitate response to such threats. De Groote wrote in a guest piece for Signal Magazine he believes that automated machines can help combatant commands evaluate […] More
Science Applications International Corp. has secured a prime position on a potential $2.5 billion contract for information technology support services to government agencies across the state of Maryland. Bob Genter, senior vice president and general manager of SAIC’s federal civilian customer group, said in a statement released Tuesday the company aims to introduce advanced IT platforms […] More
Maximus has partnered with Interactions to offer a virtual assistant technology designed to help federal agencies communicate with citizens they serve. The Maximus Intelligent Assistant platform works to facilitate transactions such as general inquiries, appeal status, benefits eligibility, program awareness, authentication, registration and enrollment via a phone, text or the web, Maximus said Tuesday. Interactions’ artificial intelligence-based Adaptive Understanding technology […] More
Wayne Lewandowski, vice president of federal business at Thales e-Security, has said he believes the U.S. government should shift cybersecurity spending from endpoint or network security to enterprise-wide protection of possible targets such as data. Lewandowski told Federal News Radio in an interview that aired Monday the 2017 Thales Data Threat Report shows cyber budgets increased by 61 […] More
PV Puvvada, president of Unisys’ federal systems business, has said federal agencies should promote communication and reassess current information technology governance frameworks in an effort to advance technology modernization and comply with the Federal IT Acquisition Reform Act. Puvvada wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Monday that the re-evaluation of IT governance structures could help build up the […] More
A team of Leidos and AT&T has received a task order from the Defense Information Systems Agency to help transform the Department of Defense Information Network to a software-based network. Leidos said Monday the team will engineer and deploy software-defined networking controller technology into DoDIN’s backbone under the task order. The technology uses an AT&T-built open framework […] More
Ken Asbury, president and CEO of CACI International, has said he thinks contract awards will begin to gain momentum after Congress passed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending package in May to fund government operations through Sept. 30, the Washington Business Journal reported Friday. Asbury, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 for 2017, told analysts during a […] More
Iridium Communications’ second batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites lifted off Sunday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to join the initial batch of satellites that took off in January. The launch brings the total number of Iridium NEXT satellites in space to 20 and marks the second of […] More
Fulcrum has secured a 10-year, $11.6 million contract to provide data center services to the Federal Housing Finance Agency. The contract was awarded through the General Services Administration‘s Alliant government wide acquisition contract and covers support for FHFA’s IT operations in Virginia, with an option for data center support to the agency’s facility California, Fulcrum said June […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president for government strategy and policy at Inmarsat, has said she believes Ka-band satellite communications can help military and government agencies support manned and unmanned aerial missions amid the evolving global security environment. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in an op-ed piece published in MilSatMagazine that Ka-band satellite constellations work to support unmanned operations that require […] More
A team composed of NanoRacks, Space Systems Loral and United Launch Alliance has signed an agreement with NASA to examine the feasibility of converting a rocket upper stage into a commercial space habitat. The Ixion Initiative Team will conduct the rocket technology repurposing study under the second phase of NASA’s Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships initiative, SSL said Wednesday. […] More
