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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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  • Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: FedRAMP Should Continue Evolution Toward ‘Accelerated Process’
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    Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: FedRAMP Should Continue Evolution Toward ‘Accelerated Process’

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer of Dell EMC’s federal business, has said he believes the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program should continue to streamline and play a role as government agencies work to advance their digital modernization efforts. “The goal is to get to a point where a vendor holding one [authority to operate] can go […] More

  • L3-Air Tractor Team to Join USAF Light Attack Aircraft Demo
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    L3-Air Tractor Team to Join USAF Light Attack Aircraft Demo

    A team of L3 Technologies and Air Tractor will bring their light-attack aircraft to Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico to participate in the U.S. Air Force’s OA-X demonstration, DoD Buzz reported Monday. The companies will demonstrate their AT-802L Longsword aircraft through a two-day flight test that will kick off on Aug. 8. AT-802L […] More

  • Airbus Lands UK Military Comms Satellite Development Contract
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    Airbus Lands UK Military Comms Satellite Development Contract

    Airbus’ defense and space business has received a sole-source contract from the U.K. defense ministry to develop, test and launch a military communications satellite, Defense News reported Monday. The Skynet 6A geostationary spacecraft is expected to enter service by mid-2025 and is designed to replace U.K. military satellites in the Skynet 5 constellation that are near the […] More

  • Wayne Rehberger: TASC’s Intell Business Main Driver Behind Merger With Engility
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    Wayne Rehberger: TASC’s Intell Business Main Driver Behind Merger With Engility

    Wayne Rehberger, chief financial officer of Engility Holdings, has said the company’s decision to acquire professional services provider TASC in 2014 through a $1.3 billion stock deal was driven by the latter’s intelligence business, Virginia Business reported Friday. Rehberger said TASC’s intelligence business “helped balance Engility’s strategic portfolio.” He was instrumental in the 2015 integration of both […] More

  • Iridium Sets Sept. 30 Launch Date for 3rd ‘NEXT’ Satellite Batch
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    Iridium Sets Sept. 30 Launch Date for 3rd ‘NEXT’ Satellite Batch

    Iridium Communications plans to launch the third batch of 10 Iridium NEXT satellites on Sept. 30 aboard a SpaceX-built Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The scheduled launch would bring the total number of Iridium NEXT satellites in space to 30 as part of a potential $3 billion program to replace an existing constellation with 75 new communications satellites […] More

  • Wes Bush: Northrop Begins EMD Phase for Air National Guard F-16 Radar Upgrade Program
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    Wes Bush: Northrop Begins EMD Phase for Air National Guard F-16 Radar Upgrade Program

    Northrop Grumman CEO Wes Bush has said the company is in the engineering, manufacturing development stage for the Air National Guard’s program to upgrade the active electronically scanned array radar aboard the Lockheed Martin-built F-16 Fighter Falcon aircraft, the National Interest reported Wednesday. Bush told investors Wednesday the company will update 72 AESA radars on the service […] More

  • Lockheed Demos Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Variant
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    Lockheed Demos Surface-Launched Anti-Ship Missile Variant

    Lockheed Martin conducted an initial flight test of a surface-launch variant of its Long Range Anti-Ship Missile Wednesday at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The company said Thursday it used a topside canister with an angled launch platform to deploy the surface-launched LRASM and simulate a ship-launched environment. LRASM, booster adapter and the Mk-114 booster […] More

  • Hortonworks’ Shaun Bierweiler: Open-Source Tech Key to Big Data Mgmt
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    Hortonworks’ Shaun Bierweiler: Open-Source Tech Key to Big Data Mgmt

    Shaun Bierweiler, vice president of public sector at Hortonworks, has said local and state government agencies should adopt open-source technology platforms to handle large volumes of data, StateScoop reported Wednesday. Bierweiler said big data management tools based on open-source work to help government leaders gain access to intelligence data and analytics needed to carry out […] More

  • Lockheed Begins Mobile Rocket Launcher Delivery Under FMS Contract
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    Lockheed Begins Mobile Rocket Launcher Delivery Under FMS Contract

    Lockheed Martin has handed over the first mobile rocket launcher system to the Defense Department under a foreign military sales contract awarded in December 2015. The company produced the launcher and chassis components for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System at its Camden, Arkansas-based facility, Lockheed said Wednesday. The U.S. Army tapped Lockheed to build 12 […] More

  • Accenture Report: First Half of 2017 Saw Increased Use of Deception Tactics, Rise in Ransomware
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    Accenture Report: First Half of 2017 Saw Increased Use of Deception Tactics, Rise in Ransomware

    A new report from Accenture’s security business has found that organizations have experienced a rise in ransomware attacks and use of phishing campaigns and deception tactics such as steganography, anti-analysis code and command-and-control servers during the first half of 2017. The 2017 Cyber Threatscape Report is based on research and analysis conducted by Accenture Security’s iDefense […] More

  • D-Wave to Provide Oak Ridge National Lab Cloud Access to Quantum Computing Platform
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    D-Wave to Provide Oak Ridge National Lab Cloud Access to Quantum Computing Platform

    D-Wave Systems has agreed to provide the Energy Department’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory cloud access to its D-Wave 2000Q quantum computing system in an effort to advance development of hybrid computing applications. D-Wave will collaborate with Tennessee-based ORNL to leverage the quantum computer to help address DOE’s environmental, energy, nuclear and other scientific challenges through […] More