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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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  • Report: Margaret Peterlin Joins AT&T as Global External, Public Affairs VP
    in Executive Moves, News

    Report: Margaret Peterlin Joins AT&T as Global External, Public Affairs VP

    Margaret Peterlin, formerly chief of staff at the State Department, has been named vice president of global external and public affairs at AT&T, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. Peterlin directly reports to David McAtee, general counsel at AT&T, and her appointment comes following a reorganization at the telecommunications firm’s Washington, D.C.-based office. “Peterlin brings […] More

  • Dell EMC’s Steve Harris: Agencies Need Long-Term IT Modernization Plan to Reduce Technical Debt
    in Featured, General, Government Technology, News

    Dell EMC’s Steve Harris: Agencies Need Long-Term IT Modernization Plan to Reduce Technical Debt

    Steve Harris, senior vice president and general manager of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said federal agencies need a long-term plan for digital transformation in order to reduce technical debt and leverage the Technology Modernization Fund through the Modernizing Government Technology Act. Harris wrote in a FedScoop article posted Thursday organizations accumulate technical debt through […] More

  • Northrop, NASA Eye Cape Canaveral as Launch Site for Pegasus XL Rocket
    in News, Space News

    Northrop, NASA Eye Cape Canaveral as Launch Site for Pegasus XL Rocket

    Northrop Grumman and NASA are likely to launch the agency’s Ionospheric Connection Explorer satellite aboard the Pegasus XL rocket later this year from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Spaceflight Now reported Thursday. Officials who have knowledge of the mission said the launch of the ICON satellite designed to explore the connection between weather […] More

  • Boeing, Embraer to Launch JV Focused on KC-390, Defense Systems; Nelson Salgado Comments
    in Industry News, News

    Boeing, Embraer to Launch JV Focused on KC-390, Defense Systems; Nelson Salgado Comments

    Boeing and Embraer have agreed to form a strategic partnership to establish a joint venture that will promote and build new applications and markets for KC-390 military multi-mission aircraft and other defense platforms and services. Nelson Salgado, executive vice president for Embraer’s financial and investor relations, said in a statement published Thursday that joint investments in […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne Begins Engine Firing Tests Under DARPA Experimental Spaceplane Program
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne Begins Engine Firing Tests Under DARPA Experimental Spaceplane Program

    Aerojet Rocketdyne has started a series of 10 firing tests of an engine designed for use on Boeing’s Phantom Express unmanned vehicle as part of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Experimental Spaceplane program, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. The company performs the 100-second test firings of the AR-22 engine at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi for […] More

  • AeroVironment, NASA JPL Team Up on Mars Helicopter Development Project
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    AeroVironment, NASA JPL Team Up on Mars Helicopter Development Project

    AeroVironment has collaborated with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to develop an unmanned helicopter platform as part of the Mars Exploration Program. The company displayed during a press briefing at Nasdaq Marketsite in New York City a model of the Mars Helicopter that will be integrated into the Mars 2020 rover, AeroVironment said Tuesday. AeroVironment handed […] More

  • NASA Solar Probe to Launch Aboard ULA Heavy Rocket
    in Industry News, News

    NASA Solar Probe to Launch Aboard ULA Heavy Rocket

    A NASA spacecraft designed to gather information about the sun is scheduled to take off no earlier than Aug. 4 aboard the United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will determine how heat and energy move through the sun’s atmosphere by flying directly […] More

  • Northrop Continues Polar Satcom Ground System Support Under Follow-On Contract
    in C4ISR News, News

    Northrop Continues Polar Satcom Ground System Support Under Follow-On Contract

    Northrop Grumman started work on a potential 15-month, $23 million follow-on contract to provide operations and maintenance support for the U.S. Air Force’s Enhanced Polar System Control and Planning Segment platform. The contract that was awarded in September 2017 will run through December, Northrop said Monday. EPS works to provide troops in the North Polar Region […] More

  • Hortonworks, PSSC Labs to Build HPC Appliance for Cyber Platform; Shaun Bierweiler Comments
    in Cybersecurity News, Featured, General, News

    Hortonworks, PSSC Labs to Build HPC Appliance for Cyber Platform; Shaun Bierweiler Comments

    Hortonworks and PSSC Labs have teamed up to develop a high-performance computing system for use in conjunction with Hortonworks Cybersecurity Platform. PSSC’s CyberRax Cybersecurity Appliance is a turnkey platform that works to deliver cyber data with alert summaries, real-time processing and high-speed ingestion capabilities to users and supports 240 processor cores and 150 terabytes of data, the […] More

  • Northrop Kicks Off F-35 Center Fuselage Full-Rate Production
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    Northrop Kicks Off F-35 Center Fuselage Full-Rate Production

    Northrop Grumman has begun full-rate production of the center fuselage of the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II fighter aircraft. Northrop said Friday the phase marks the start of a production interval in which a fuselage will be manufactured every day and a half. Frank Carus, vice president and F-35 program manager at Northrop, said the […] More