Industry Execs on Cybersecurity Risks Associated With New Low-Earth Orbit Satellites
Some industry leaders said new low-Earth orbit satellites may create a larger attack surface for cyber threat actors, Via Satellite reported Friday.
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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Raytheon’s Teresa Shea: Organizations Should Extend Zero-Trust Model to the Cloud
Teresa Shea, vice president of cyber offensive and defensive experts at Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, told CyberScoop in an interview posted Monday that a zero-trust model should be extended to the cloud environment amid data growth and increasing adoption of internet of things.
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NVIDIA’s Anthony Robbins on Federal AI Adoption
Anthony Robbins, vice president of North American public sector at NVIDIA and a 2019 Wash100 award recipient, told Federal News Network in an interview published Wednesday he believes defense contractors, universities, startups, systems integrators and civilian agencies should work together to help the federal government advance the adoption of artificial intelligence and improve citizen services.
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Industry Leaders Cite Implications of Continuing Resolutions for DoD, Industrial Base
Corporate and trade group leaders discussed at the annual Outlook 2020 event how continuing resolutions impact the Pentagon and industry, Defense One reported Thursday.
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Booz Allen’s Santiago Milian on Three Factors to Consider When Establishing Customer Experience Function
Santiago “Pikula†Milian, principal/director of experience at Booz Allen Hamilton, wrote in an FCW article published Thursday that there are three factors government agencies should consider when forming a customer experience function and one is getting support from stakeholders.
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Kent Walker: Google Eager to Do More Work With DoD
Kent Walker, senior vice president for global affairs at Google, said the company collaborates with different agencies within the Department of Defense on several technology projects and plans to expand work with the Pentagon, Defense One reported Wednesday.
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Dell EMC Federal’s Steve Harris: Multicloud Could Help Agencies Achieve Flexibility, Transparency
Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business and a 2019 Wash100 awardee, wrote in a commentary published Tuesday on Federal News Network that there are several factors agencies should consider as they adopt a multicloud approach and one is the transparency and flexibility multicloud brings to agencies.
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FBI Offers Updates on IT Support Services Recompete
The FBI is still in the process of evaluating quotes and plans to announce in the coming weeks the top 60 vendors that will move to the second phase of the solicitation for the IT Supplies and Support Services recompete contract.
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Booz Allen Launches AI Model Marketplace; Josh Sullivan Quoted
Booz Allen Hamilton has introduced an enterprise software offering designed to help organizations field and manage artificial intelligence models. The Modzy AI platform also serves as a marketplace providing organizations access to pre-trained AI models from open-source communities and tech firms and enabling them to upload, govern and reuse AI models, Booz Allen said Monday.
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Report: Gov’t, Military Officials in US Allied Countries Among Victims of WhatsApp Breach
A breach through Facebook-owned messaging application WhatsApp targeted the smartphones of senior government and military officials from at least 20 countries, Reuters reported Friday.
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Bluestaq to Continue Work on Air Force’s Unified Data Library
Colorado Springs, Colo.-based technology startup Bluestaq has received a potential three-year, $37.5M contract to further develop a cloud-based repository containing tracking data of space objects, C4ISRNET reported Wednesday.
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Joe Quaglia: Tech Data Seeks to Get Public Sector Market Share Through DLT Deal
Joe Quaglia, president of the Americas at Tech Data (Nasdaq: TECD), told GCN in an interview published Thursday the company’s proposed acquisition of software and cloud technology aggregator DLT Solutions provides an opportunity for Tech Data to capture a share of the federal public sector market.