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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in Contract Awards, NewsHPI Federal Taps Perspecta to Help With NGEN-R End-User Hardware Contract; Mac Curtis Quoted
HP’s government arm has awarded Perspecta a contract worth more than $120M to help with the end-user hardware portion of the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Enterprise Network Recompete contract, Inside Defense reported Friday.
in Executive Moves, NewsJoyce Hunter Named ICIT Executive Director; Parham Eftekhari Appointed Board Chairman
Joyce Hunter, a veteran information technology leader, has been named executive director of the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology, a nonprofit cybersecurity think tank. Parham Eftekhari, ICIT founder and most recently executive director, has transitioned to the role of chairman of the board of directors.
AWS’ Dave Levy on Early Learnings From COVID-19 HPC Consortium
Dave Levy, vice president of federal business at Amazon Web Services and a 2020 Wash100 Award recipient, said there are three early lessons from the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium and one is the capability of new technology platforms to help researchers expedite their work. "Tools including deep learning and artificial intelligence are reducing time to insight for researchers around the world," Levy wrote in a blog post published Thursday.
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Palantir to Back VA’s COVID-19 Response Under Data Analysis Contract
Palantir has received a potential $5M contract to provide the Department of Veterans Affairs with its Gotham software to help track and analyze data related to coronavirus outbreak areas and generate insights from hospital inventory, social services data and supply chain capacity to facilitate the decision-making process, FedScoop reported Tuesday.
NIST Wants Orgs to Contribute Products to Support 5G Cybersecurity Demo Project
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking organizations to share their products and technical expertise in support of a project that seeks to demonstrate how components of the 5G network architecture can offer security capabilities to meet industry’s compliance requirements and reduce identified risks.
Pure Storage’s Gary Newgaard: Modern Data Experience Key to Maintaining Telework-Ready Environment
Gary Newgaard, vice president of public sector at Pure Storage, wrote in a GCN guest piece published Tuesday that government agencies should have the right infrastructure and a modern data experience to meet expanded telework requirements.
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SpaceX Vet Zach Dunn Joins Relativity Space as Factory Development VP
Zach Dunn, formerly senior vice president of production and launch at SpaceX, has been named VP of factory development at California-based Relativity Space, Ars Technica reported Tuesday.
in NewsL3Harris CEO William Brown: Stable Funding, Faster Acquisitions Key to a More Resilient Defense Supply Chain
William “Bill†Brown, chairman and CEO of L3Harris Technologies and a previous Wash100 awardee, wrote in a commentary published Monday on Defense News that there are several actions the Department of Defense and industry should implement to strengthen the country’s defense supply chain and one is ensuring sustained budgets.
Air Force Concludes Initial Review of Northrop’s GBSD System Design
The U.S. Air Force conducted in late April a three-day preliminary design review of Northrop Grumman’s proposed system for the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile program, the service branch reported Friday.
Meagan Metzger on How DoD Can Identify Right Commercial Tech to Meet Critical Needs
Meagan Metzger, founder and CEO of Dcode and an advisory board member at Booz Allen Hamilton, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on Defense News that the Department of Defense and other federal agencies seeking to rapidly deploy commercial technology platforms should collaborate with private sector partners with experience screening tech companies for government contracts.