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Jane Edwards

is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic, where she writes for ExecutiveBiz about IT modernization, cybersecurity, space procurement and industry leaders’ perspectives on government technology trends.

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  • Vectrus Secures 2 Air Force Installation Support Task Orders; Chuck Prow Quoted
    in Contract Awards, News

    Vectrus Secures 2 Air Force Installation Support Task Orders; Chuck Prow Quoted

    Vectrus has booked $40 million worth of task orders to provide installation support services for the U.S. Air Force. The service awarded the two task orders through the $6.4 billion Air Force Contract Augmentation Program V indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, the company said Thursday. The AFCAP V contract vehicle covers emergency and contingency construction, logistics and commodities […] More

  • Donnie Scott: IDEMIA to Advance Work on Digital Identity, Contactless Biometrics
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    Donnie Scott: IDEMIA to Advance Work on Digital Identity, Contactless Biometrics

    Donnie Scott, CEO of Identity and Security North America business at IDEMIA, said he expects the company to accelerate work on digital identity and contactless biometrics as he anticipates the technologies to be widely adopted driven by the COVID-19 pandemic, The Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday. “Obviously, when you’ve got a pandemic where you are […] More

  • ICF to Help Social Security Administration Develop Software Applications; Mark Lee Quoted
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    ICF to Help Social Security Administration Develop Software Applications; Mark Lee Quoted

    ICF has received a potential five-year, $12 million recompete contract from the Social Security Administration for software development support. The company said Wednesday it will build, support and maintain software applications using the agency’s Security Automated Features and Enhancements platform under the contract to help SSA automate its physical security processes. SAFE is a suite […] More

  • AWS Unveils Program for Public Sector Startups; Sandy Carter Quoted
    in Government Technology, News

    AWS Unveils Program for Public Sector Startups; Sandy Carter Quoted

    Amazon Web Services has introduced an acceleration program to help startups speed up the development of cloud-based technologies for public sector consumers. The AWS Public Sector Startup Ramp program seeks to provide member startups access to technical training and support, AWS Promotional Credit and technical experts as they build platforms on AWS in support of […] More

  • Air Force Issues RFI for ‘Mayhem’ Expendable Hypersonic Air-Breathing Vehicle Program
    in Government Technology, News

    Air Force Issues RFI for ‘Mayhem’ Expendable Hypersonic Air-Breathing Vehicle Program

    The U.S. Air Force is seeking information on companies with capabilities to meet the requirements of the Expendable Hypersonic Air-Breathing Multi-Mission Vehicle program. The Air Force Research Laboratory plans to conduct research and develop for the Mayhem vehicle that can carry “larger payloads over distances further than current hypersonic capabilities allow” and employ a systems […] More

  • Intel’s Gretchen Stewart: Neuromorphic Computing Could Open New Use Cases for Government
    in Artificial Intelligence, News

    Intel’s Gretchen Stewart: Neuromorphic Computing Could Open New Use Cases for Government

    Gretchen Stewart, chief data scientist at Intel’s public sector arm, said the next generation of artificial intelligence in the form of neuromorphic computing could provide government agencies a more efficient way to collect, process and analyze data to quickly generate insights for decision-making and carry out missions. Neuromorphic computing seeks to mimic the human brain’s […] More

  • Raytheon Seeks to Provide Fighter Jets Mission Advantage Through GaN AESA Radar
    in Government Technology, News

    Raytheon Seeks to Provide Fighter Jets Mission Advantage Through GaN AESA Radar

    Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business is integrating the gallium nitride active electronically scanned array radar as a tech upgrade to F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler aircraft to enable fourth-generation fighter jets to keep up with new platforms. “For the U.S. armed forces and allies alike, upgrading to AESA GaN radars helps them […] More

  • Kristine Martin Anderson Unveils Booz Allen’s Plans Following Liberty IT Acquisition
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    Kristine Martin Anderson Unveils Booz Allen’s Plans Following Liberty IT Acquisition

    Kristine Martin Anderson, executive vice president and head of civil business at Booz Allen Hamilton, said the company will continue to deliver on existing contracts with the Department of Veterans Affairs and scale up using Liberty IT Solutions’ advancements in application program interface development and low code-no code platforms, FedScoop reported Friday. Martin Anderson said […] More

  • Army Conducts Market Research for Cloud-Based Common Application Platform
    in Government Technology, News

    Army Conducts Market Research for Cloud-Based Common Application Platform

    The U.S. Army has sought information on vendors with capabilities to provide a cloud-based common application platform. Mission and Installation Contracting Command in West Point, New York, plans to use the platform to “collect application data and through batching, provide the information to open files on candidates applying to the United States Military Academy at […] More

  • Mitre’s Wilson Wang Named to UMD Alumni Association Board of Governors
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    Mitre’s Wilson Wang Named to UMD Alumni Association Board of Governors

    Wilson Wang, vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer at Mitre, has been elected to the board of governors of the University of Maryland Alumni Association. He and seven other at-large board members began their two-year terms on July 1 to provide strategic direction and help oversee the Alumni Association’s future programs, the university said […] More

  • AWS Framework Seeks to Help Contractors Accelerate CMMC Compliance
    in Government Technology, News

    AWS Framework Seeks to Help Contractors Accelerate CMMC Compliance

    Randy Domingo and Abhi Singh of Amazon Web Services said AWS has launched a platform that could help contractors speed up the deployment of a cloud-based environment that complies with the Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program. They wrote in a blog posted Tuesday that the AWS Compliant Framework for Federal and DoD […] More

  • Robert Hoyecki Named CIS Secure COO; Bill Strang Quoted
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    Robert Hoyecki Named CIS Secure COO; Bill Strang Quoted

    Robert “Rob” Hoyecki, a veteran Curtiss-Wright executive, has joined CIS Secure as chief operating officer. He will oversee CIS Secure’s product engineering, quality assurance, production and testing efforts, the company said Thursday. CIS Secure CEO Bill Strang said Hoyecki will bring to the role his experience in managing mission-critical systems and will help identify acquisition […] More