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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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  • Airbus Taps Northrop Unit to Provide L-Band Mesh Reflectors for Inmarsat 6 Satellites
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    Airbus Taps Northrop Unit to Provide L-Band Mesh Reflectors for Inmarsat 6 Satellites

    Airbus’ defense and space segment has selected a Northrop Grumman subsidiary to supply mesh reflectors for two of Inmarsat‘s communications satellites. Northrop’s Astro Aerospace business will provide its AstroMesh reflectors for integration with Inmarsat 6 satellites designed to provide L-band communication services, Northrop said Thursday. John Alvarez, general manager of Astro Aerospace, said the company’s […] More

  • Leonardo’s DRS Subsidiary to Build T-100 Trainer Production Facility in Alabama
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    Leonardo’s DRS Subsidiary to Build T-100 Trainer Production Facility in Alabama

    Leonardo’s U.S.-based subsidiary DRS plans to establish a Tuskegee, Alabama-based facility to manufacture its proposed aircraft for the U.S. Air Force’s T-X trainer jet program. The Leonardo DRS-led industry team will set up its final assembly and manufacturing facility for its proposed T-100 Integrated Training System at Moton Field Municipal Airport in Tuskegee in an effort to leverage […] More

  • AWS Gets FedRAMP P-ATO Approvals for 9 New GovCloud (US) Services
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    AWS Gets FedRAMP P-ATO Approvals for 9 New GovCloud (US) Services

    Amazon Web Services has received provisional authority-to-operate from the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s joint authorization board for nine services designed for use in the AWS GovCloud (US) Region platform. The board issued the P-ATO approvals after it evaluated AWS’ cloud service offerings against FedRAMP’s high-impact level security requirements, AWS said Wednesday. AWS said AWS CloudFormation is one […] More

  • Northrop, Terma Ink Deal for Additional F-35 Parts Production Opportunities
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    Northrop, Terma Ink Deal for Additional F-35 Parts Production Opportunities

    Northrop Grumman and Terma have signed an agreement that provides the latter an opportunity to manufacture additional components for the Lockheed Martin-built F-35 Lightning II aircraft beyond the companies’ existing contracts. Jens Maaloe, Terma president and CEO, said in a statement released Wednesday the company has invested in its production and technology facilities in Denmark […] More

  • Cybernance Lands DHS SAFETY Act Award for Cyber Risk Governance Platform
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    Cybernance Lands DHS SAFETY Act Award for Cyber Risk Governance Platform

    Cybernance has received the Support Anti-Terrorism by Fostering Effective Technologies Act award from the Department of Homeland Security for its cyber risk governance software platform. The SAFETY Act award seeks to certify Cybernance Platform as a Qualified Anti-Terrorism Technology and provide sellers and users of the product with risk management and liability protection from third-party litigation should an act […] More

  • Divine Imaging Wins $60M DLA COTS Item Supply IDIQ
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    Divine Imaging Wins $60M DLA COTS Item Supply IDIQ

    Malibu, California-based Divine Imaging has won a potential five-year, $60 million contract to supply commercial off-the-shelf items to the Defense Logistics Agency for use by the U.S. Army, U.S. Navy and other service branches. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract has a one-year base term and four option years, Divine Imaging said Wednesday. DLA received 24 proposals for the contract […] More

  • Vencore Lands DoD Contract to Develop Cellular Tech for Aerial Telemetry Applications
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    Vencore Lands DoD Contract to Develop Cellular Tech for Aerial Telemetry Applications

    Vencore’s research arm has received a potential three-year, $6 million contract from the Defense Department to develop a cellular technology platform for use in aeronautical mobile telemetry. Vencore Labs will build a prototype system under DoD’s Cellular Range Telemetry Network program, the company said Tuesday. The proposed prototype will leverage commercial cellular technology platforms designed to […] More

  • Unisys’ PV Puvvada: Agency Leaders Need to Recognize Millennials’ Career Expectations
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    Unisys’ PV Puvvada: Agency Leaders Need to Recognize Millennials’ Career Expectations

    PV Puvvada, president of Unisys’ federal systems business, has said government agency leaders should work to build up a “modern and flexible workforce” by assessing the expectations of employees such as millennials. “The key is to recognize that millennials have high expectations of how they will progress through their careers and want to understand their […] More

  • NIC’s Pete Eichorn: Agencies Should Apply Microservices in Govt Digital Services Devt
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    NIC’s Pete Eichorn: Agencies Should Apply Microservices in Govt Digital Services Devt

    Pete Eichorn, director of technology at Kansas-based government information services provider NIC, has said agencies should work to adopt microservices to develop and build up government digital services and keep up with citizens’ expectations. Eichorn wrote in a GCN article published Monday that microservices work to operate independently and communicate via an application programming interface […] More

  • Lockheed, Northrop Conclude Soft-Kill Demonstrator Integration for Army Modular Active Protection Platform
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    Lockheed, Northrop Conclude Soft-Kill Demonstrator Integration for Army Modular Active Protection Platform

    Lockheed Martin has teamed up with Northrop Grumman to complete initial integration work on a soft-kill demonstrator platform for the U.S. Army’s Modular Active Protection System. Lockheed said Tuesday it combined its Open Architecture Processor with Northrop’s Multifunction Electro-Optic System countermeasure equipment and Passive Infrared Cueing Sensor to develop an open-architecture soft-kill platform for MAPS. Both companies performed the […] More

  • Bloomberg: DoD to Decide on $29B King Stallion Helicopter Procurement Program With Lockheed
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    Bloomberg: DoD to Decide on $29B King Stallion Helicopter Procurement Program With Lockheed

    The Defense Department is set to assess whether to approve a $29 billion program to buy 200 heavy-lift cargo helicopters from Lockheed Martin for use by the U.S. Marine Corps, Bloomberg reported Monday. Anthony Capaccio and Julie Johnsson write the defense acquisition board will meet Thursday to decide on the proposed low-rate production of 24 Sikorsky-built […] More

  • Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Modernizing Govt Tech Act Seeks to Help Agencies Fund IT Upgrades
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    Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh: Modernizing Govt Tech Act Seeks to Help Agencies Fund IT Upgrades

    Cameron Chehreh, chief technology officer at Dell EMC’s federal business, has said he would support the Modernizing Government Technology Act introduced by Rep. Will Hurd (R-Texas) because the bill aims to provide agency executives access to capital needed to fund information technology modernization efforts. Chehreh told MeriTalk in a Data Center Brainstorm interview held Thursday in […] More