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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Leonardo DRS’ William Lynn: Stable Defense Spending Could Help Industry Focus on DoD’s Priorities
Leonardo DRS CEO William Lynn told Government Matters in an interview posted Tuesday that one of the trends he sees in the defense sector is the Pentagon’s need for speed. He said the Department of Defense wants industry to deliver faster and companies should understand DoD’s priorities to know where to invest and meet the department’s requirements.
Johns Hopkins APL Biologists Use Hand-Held Tech to Sequence Coronavirus Genome
Two biologists from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory are conducting on-site sequencing of the genome of the SARS-CoV-2Â virus that causes COVID-19 using hand-held sequencing systems.
in M&A Activity, NewsJerry DeMuro, Tom Arseneault: BAE’s US Arm Sees Opportunities in Two Businesses From Raytheon-UTC Merger
Jerry DeMuro, CEO of BAE Systems’ U.S. subsidiary and a three-time Wash100 award winner, and Tom Arseneault, company president and chief operating officer and a 2020 Wash100 awardee, told C4ISRNET in an interview published Monday about the opportunities they see in the company’s proposed acquisition of two businesses from Raytheon and United Technologies Corp.
Report: Lockheed Partners With SEAKR to Work on Protected Tactical Satcom Payload
Lockheed Martin selected Colorado-based space electronics provider SEAKR Engineering to help build a satellite communications payload for the U.S. Space Force, SpaceNews reported Sunday. Sources said Lockheed and SEAKR are expected to announce this week their partnership on the Protected Tactical Satcom program.
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: ‘Commercial First’ Strategy Could Help Gov’t Implement Integrated Satcom Architecture
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy at Inmarsat Government, wrote in a MilsatMagazine article that there are several measures the U.S. government can consider to further advance the development of an integrated satellite communications architecture and one is the implementation of a "commercial first" strategy.
DHS Discloses EIS Contract Transition Plans in Draft Solicitation
The Department of Homeland Security released a draft solicitation to transition its headquarters data network to the General Services Administration's $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract, FCW reported Thursday.
Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Pragyansmita Nayak on How Agencies Can Leverage Data
Pragyansmita Nayak, chief data scientist at Hitachi Vantara Federal, wrote in a Signal Magazine article published Tuesday that government chief information officers and their teams seeking to leverage data should advance a "digital cultural transformation" to enable agencies to “think both strategically and tactically in collecting, analyzing and acting upon data-based intelligence."
COVID-19 Likely to Delay Transition to EIS Telecom Contract; CenturyLink’s David Young Quoted
Some contractors and experts said they expect to see a disruption in the transition to the General Services Administration's $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions telecommunications contract as federal agencies demand for more telework capacity amid the coronavirus pandemic, FCW reported Wednesday.
Rocket Lab Gets NASA Certification for Launch Vehicle; Peter Beck Quoted
Rocket Lab has received Category 1 certification from NASA for its Electron launch vehicle. The certification was awarded after Rocket Lab’s Electron vehicle delivered 13 NASA CubeSats to orbit in December 2018 as part of the ELaNa-19 mission and following the completion of a review of the company’s rocket production processes and facilities in 2019, the company said Tuesday.
US Government, Tech Firms Eye Use of Smartphone Location Data to Fight COVID-19
The U.S. government is in discussions with health professionals and technology companies such as Google and Facebook about possible ways to obtain insights from smartphone location data to fight the new coronavirus, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
in M&A Activity, NewsRoger Krone: Leidos Pairing Dynetics With Innovation Center
Roger Krone, chairman and CEO of Leidos and a 2020 Wash100 award winner, said the company is combining Dynetics with its Leidos Innovation Center and has not lost any of the top 50 Dynetics employees since the Reston, Va.-based technology services contractor closed the acquisition in late January, Inside Defense reported Tuesday.