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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.
Some defense companies have expressed optimism on the Trump administration’s plan to establish a new “space force†as they expect the proposed service branch to boost defense spending on space-related work, The Hill reported Wednesday. “It’s pretty exciting for all of us in the industry to see the intense level of interest that this administration and […] More
Raytheon CEO Thomas Kennedy has said organizations that seek to protect corporate intellectual property from insider threats should “implement a clear set of policies governing technology usage.†Kennedy, a two-time Wash100 awardee, wrote in a commentary posted Tuesday on Fortune that such policies could guide information technology teams as they work to detect malicious access attempts and determine […] More
Six companies have issued a joint statement at the CMS Blue Button 2.0 Developer Conference to address barriers to the use of technology platforms that work to facilitate health care interoperability. Microsoft, IBM, Google, Salesforce, Oracle and Amazon have vowed to work together to “unlock the potential in health care data, to deliver better outcomes at […] More
Aerojet Rocketdyne has conducted a hot-fire test of an engine technology the company built for NASA’s Space Launch System rocket. The company said Tuesday it performed the RS-25 engine test at the agency’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi and assessed the performance of the main combustion chamber during the 319-second engine fire test attended by NASA Administrator […] More
Hewlett Packard Enterprise has begun development work on a high-performance computing system designed to help the National Renewable Energy Laboratory speed up research and development of energy technology platforms across data sciences, vehicle and wind power areas. The Eagle supercomputer is built to process HPC workloads at a speed of up to 8 petaflops through […] More
Two CACI International employees have received the Office of the Secretary of the Defense Medal for Valor in recognition of their involvement in counterinsurgency and force member recovery efforts. CACI employees Brandon “Ray†Seabolt and Michael “Tony†Dunne accepted the award from Lt. Gen. Darsie Rogers, deputy director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the […] More
Acclaim Technical Services has named CEO Dave Cerne as board chairman and appointed Reginald Hyde and Chuck Hicks to the Reston, Va.-based intelligence and language services contractor’s board of directors. Cerne, who is also a board member at ATS, previously served as the company’s chief operating officer and vice president of business development, ATS reported. […] More
A survey by Deloitte and the National Association of State Auditors, Comptrollers and Treasurers has found that only 35 percent of respondents said they were satisfied with their organizations’ digital response, down from 64 percent in 2015. Deloitte and NASACT said Monday they polled 71 state auditors, treasurers and comptrollers in May and found 45 percent […] More
HackerOne and the Defense Department have unveiled a new bug bounty challenge that aims to build up the cybersecurity posture of the U.S. Marine Corps’ enterprise network. Nearly 100 expert security professionals and Marine Corps Cyberspace Command personnel hacked the service’s public-facing sites and identified 75 cyber vulnerabilities through the Hack the Marine Corps program […] More
Microsoft has made its Azure Stack hybrid cloud offering available to Azure Government cloud platform users. Natalia Mackevicius, program director for Azure Stack, wrote in a blog entry posted Monday the Azure Stack for Azure Government offering seeks to help government clients comply with data requirements by providing them access to the same set of DevOps tools, […] More
Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, senior vice president of government strategy and policy for Inmarsat Government, has said the government and the commercial satellite industry should adopt an “enterprise approach to partnerships†to protect and defend space assets from potential adversaries. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in a National Defense piece posted Friday that an example of that approach is the formation of […] More
A solar probe that Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory designed and produced for NASA took off Sunday aboard United Launch Alliance’s Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Parker Solar Probe will deploy its magnetometer boom and high-gain antenna in the mission’s first week and kick off in September […] More
