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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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  • Matt Desch: Iridium Eyes 2018 for Certus Communications Service Commercial Launch
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    Matt Desch: Iridium Eyes 2018 for Certus Communications Service Commercial Launch

    Iridium Communications CEO Matt Desch has said the company expects its Certus multi-service communications platform to enter the commercial market in 2018 before the complete Iridium NEXT satellite network becomes fully operational. Desch told Runway Girl Network in an interview published Thursday that Iridium eyes the maritime sector for Certus 350 with plans to introduce Certus 700 to the commercial […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Hands Over GPS Anti-Jam Tech to Air Force
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    Rockwell Collins Hands Over GPS Anti-Jam Tech to Air Force

    Rockwell Collins has delivered to the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command a GPS platform designed to provide anti-jam protection capability to various aerial platforms. The Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver is based on open systems architecture that works to provide jamming resistance and anti-spoofing functionality to fixed-wing aircraft, transport planes, bombers, unmanned aircraft systems and other […] More

  • VMware’s Bill Rowan: DoD, DOJ IT Execs Agree on Hybrid Cloud’s Value
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    VMware’s Bill Rowan: DoD, DOJ IT Execs Agree on Hybrid Cloud’s Value

    Bill Rowan, vice president of federal sales at VMware, has said information technology leaders from U.S. service branches and the Justice Department agree when it comes to the value of hybrid cloud technology, WTOP reported Wednesday. He participated in a Federal News Radio-hosted panel discussion with Daniel Corbin, chief technology adviser at the U.S. Marine Corps‘ C4 Headquarters; Randall Conway, […] More

  • Report: Orbital ATK, Air Force Set Aug. 25 Launch for ORS-5 Satellite
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    Report: Orbital ATK, Air Force Set Aug. 25 Launch for ORS-5 Satellite

    A U.S. Air Force satellite is scheduled Friday to launch into orbit aboard the Orbital ATK-built Minotaur IV rocket that will lift off from a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Spaceflight Insider reported Wednesday. The Operationally Responsive Space 5 satellite will work to provide situational awareness capabilities as the U.S. military […] More

  • Kratos Launches Geolocation Tool for Satellite Interference Mitigation
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    Kratos Launches Geolocation Tool for Satellite Interference Mitigation

    Kratos Defense and Security Solutions has unveiled a new geolocation platform that works to determine the physical location of very small aperture terminals in an effort to mitigate satellite interference. The satID platform comes with a time division multiple access geolocation module designed to classify, process and filter signals from VSATs and provide signal removal […] More

  • Navy Adopts Rubrik Cloud Data Management Tool to Streamline Backup Operations
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    Navy Adopts Rubrik Cloud Data Management Tool to Streamline Backup Operations

    The U.S. Navy has begun to implement Rubrik’s software-defined converged platform in an effort to automate backup operations and manage data across public and private cloud environments. The service branch’s Commander, Navy Installations Command reported a reduction in the total cost of ownership and achieved cost savings after it deployed Rubrik’s Cloud Data Management platform, […] More

  • DLT-Tableau Team to Integrate Business Intell, Analytics Platforms for Public Sector Clients
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    DLT-Tableau Team to Integrate Business Intell, Analytics Platforms for Public Sector Clients

    DLT Solutions and Tableau Software have forged a partnership to facilitate the delivery of Tableau’s business analytics software to federal agencies and other public sector clients. Tableau will integrate its software platform into DLT’s AnalyticsStack under the partnership to perform data analytics and business intelligence functions in the latter’s analytics layer in an effort to help users […] More

  • Navy Taps Northrop to Train Squadron for 2-Part Fire Scout UAS Demo
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    Navy Taps Northrop to Train Squadron for 2-Part Fire Scout UAS Demo

    Northrop Grumman has helped the U.S. Navy train a detachment of air vehicle operators from the service branch’s helicopter sea combat squadron 23 to perform a two-part flight demonstration of the Northrop-built MQ-8B Fire Scout autonomous helicopter. The Navy conducted in May the first part of the demonstration in which AVOs at a naval auxiliary landing […] More

  • American Systems Lands Navy Task Order for IED Forensic Analysis Support; Peter Smith Comments
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    American Systems Lands Navy Task Order for IED Forensic Analysis Support; Peter Smith Comments

    American Systems has received a potential five-year, $36.1 million task order from the U.S. Navy to perform forensic and technical analysis of improvised explosive devices and other explosive ordnance components. The company said Monday it will assist the expeditionary exploitation unit one as EXU-1 works to develop and revise the doctrine and documents of the Navy, […] More

  • General Atomics’ David Alexander: IP Theft ‘Detrimental’ to National Security
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    General Atomics’ David Alexander: IP Theft ‘Detrimental’ to National Security

    David Alexander, president of General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business, has lauded and expressed support to President Donald Trump’s commitment to counter the theft of U.S. intellectual property. “The U.S. defense industry has certainly been subject to these aggressive actions and intellectual property theft has been extremely detrimental to U.S. national security,” Alexander said in a […] More