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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.
Stan Deal, president and CEO of Boeing’s global services business, has said he is working with the heads of the Chicago-based aerospace firm’s defense and commercial segments to find new growth opportunities, AINonline reported Friday. Deal said he collaborates with CEO Dennis Muilenburg; Leanne Caret, president of Boeing’s defense, space and security segment; Greg Smith, chief […] More
Lockheed Martin has issued a request for information as it considers whether to recompete the F-35 aircraft’s communications, navigation and identification equipment and electronic warfare platform in order to reduce the systems’ lifecycle costs, Defense News reported July 10. “We’re evaluating right now the RFI responses and determining if it’s a good time to go do […] More
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft left the International Space Station on Friday to deploy six CubeSats into orbit. The company said Sunday the spacecraft, also known as S.S. J.R. Thompson, will use the NanoRacks deployer to field AeroCube 12A and 12B satellites from Aerospace Corp. and four other CubeSats that will join Spire Global’s constellation of weather satellites to […] More
Leanne Caret, president and CEO of Boeing’s defense, space and security segment, has said the company will handle data sharing in the age of artificial intelligence on “an individual basis,†Defense News reported Sunday. Caret, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, noted that sharing of data to advance development work on AI would depend on the nature of the client, […] More
Dave Wajsgras, president of Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, on Tuesday conducted a cybersecurity discussion with Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and Kathleen Murphy, a Virginia state delegate. The University of Virginia’s six-member student team that won in a Raytheon-sponsored national cyber contest also took part in the discussion at the company’s Northern Virginia campus, […] More
Federal contract obligations reached $512 billion in fiscal 2017, hitting the highest level since agencies spent $522 billion in fiscal 2012, Bloomberg Government reported Thursday. The 2018 BGOV200 report showed that contract obligations received by the top 200 government contractors in fiscal 2017 accounted for 64 percent, or approximately $327 billion, of the total contract spending […] More
Perspecta will serve as the conference sponsor of the Open Source Electronic Health Record Alliance’s three-day summit that will kick off on Wednesday, July 18, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Maryland. “We look forward to a highly interactive conference, and plan to demonstrate our latest efforts in platform development and […] More
Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon’s intelligence, information and services business, has said the U.S. military needs a multidomain command-and-control platform that could help them make decisions in the future battlespace. “Developing these tools requires investing in truly open architectures, analytics, [artificial intelligence] and human/machine teaming capabilities that can connect and […] More
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft docked at the International Space Station tested on Tuesday its reboost capability through a 50-second engine firing activity, Spaceflight Now reported Wednesday. Ground controllers at Northrop’s Dulles, Va.-based mission operations facility transmitted commands to the spacecraft to fire its IHI Aerospace-supplied BT-4 main engine, which generated approximately 100 pounds of thrust […] More
Aimee Kennedy, senior vice president of philanthropy and education at Battelle, has been appointed to a new panel authorized by Congress to advise the Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education on STEM-related issues. Kennedy is one of the 18 members named by the National Science Foundation to the STEM Education Advisory Panel established through […] More
ORock Technologies has received a Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification for its Red Hat OpenStack-based cloud platform. A Defense Department agency granted the FedRAMP authorization to operate to ORockCloud at the moderate impact level for hybrid cloud deployments and Platform-as-a-Service and Infrastructure-as-a-Service models, ORock said Tuesday. “The ORockCloud brings to market the realization of […] More
Bart & Associates has adopted the name B&A and a new corporate logo in a move to reflect the company’s commitment to deliver innovative solutions across integration and analytics, modernization and transformation, operations and enablement, agile delivery, human capital management and certified hosting areas. Jonathan Evans, president and CEO of B&A, said in a statement […] More
