PSC Finds Increase in Federal Use of Shared IT Services
The Professional Services Council has found that the use of shared information technology services by federal agencies has jumped 2 percent each year since 2017, FedScoop reported Monday.Â
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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Sally Richardson: Northrop Prepares for Upcoming Reviews of Human Landing System’s Transfer Element
Sally Richardson, program director for the Human Landing System at Northrop Grumman, said the company completed on Oct. 8 a system readiness review of the HLS' transfer element and is preparing for two more assessments in December and January, NASASpaceflight reported Friday.Â
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John McDonald, Jeff Panebianco: DoD Should Provide Reliable, Secure Connectivity to Ensure Mission Readiness
John McDonald of CommScope and Jeff Panebianco of ID Technologies wrote in an opinion piece published Friday on C4ISRNET that the Department of Defense should prioritize the establishment of the flight line of the future by providing warfighters with reliable and secure connectivity everywhere to ensure mission readiness.Â
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Riverbed Study: Majority of Federal IT Leaders Say Telework Accelerated Network Visibility Adoption
A new Riverbed Technology survey has found that 81 percent of federal information technology leaders said the move to telework arrangements expedited their agencies’ deployment and use of network visibility platforms.
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Rocket Lab to Perform First Stage Retrieval Attempt in Upcoming Mission; Peter Beck Quoted
Rocket Lab has announced that it will try to recover its Electron rocket’s first stage using a parachute system during its next mission that is slated for launch in mid-November.Â
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Survey: 58% of Federal Defense Personnel Want Agencies to Look at Cloud Security as Top Priority
A Government Business Council survey sponsored by Cisco has found that 58 percent of federal defense agency employees said they think agencies should consider cloud security as the top priority as they advance cloud adoption.
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GSA Issues RFI for Catalog Management System Modernization Effort
The General Services Administration has asked contractors with spots on the Multiple Award Schedule to provide feedback as it plans to implement a new web-based application for catalog management.
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in Contract Awards, NewsGDIT’s Amy Gilliland: DEOS to Provide New Collaboration Tools to DoD Enterprise Users
Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics’ information technology business and a 2020 Wash100 Award winner, said GDIT looks forward to continuing its partnership with the General Services Administration, Department of Defense and the Defense Information Systems Agency through the Defense Enterprise Office Solutions cloud contract as part of efforts to meet the goals stated in DoD’s Cloud Strategy.
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Cybereason: Cyber Group ‘Kimsuky’ Uses New Malware, Spyware Suite to Target Gov’t, Defense Orgs
A research team at Cybereason has found that Kimsuky, a cyber espionage group linked to the government of North Korea, is using a new malware strain called CSPY Downloader and spyware suite KGH_SPY to perform attacks on defense and government organizations, human rights groups and research and pharmaceutical companies working on COVID-19 vaccines and treatments.
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Booz Allen’s Lloyd Howell on Federal IT Modernization
Lloyd Howell, chief financial officer and treasurer at Booz Allen Hamilton, said he believes information technology modernization efforts within the federal government will continue and grow over time, the Washington Business Journal reported Wednesday.
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Marine Corps Asks Industry for Info on Alternative Wargaming Facilities
The U.S. Marine Corps has requested industry for information on alternative facilities that could be used to temporarily host wargames as it works on a new wargaming center at its base in Quantico, Virginia, Inside Defense reported Monday.Â
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Booz Allen’s Kevin Coggins: Digital Twins Could Help Strengthen Cybersecurity of Space Assets
Kevin Coggins, vice president for positioning, navigation and timing at Booz Allen Hamilton, wrote in an opinion piece published Monday on C4ISRNET that military services and other organizations looking to protect satellites and other in-orbit space systems from evolving cyber threats should adopt the “digital twin†approach.Â
