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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.
ICF has received a potential five-year, $11 million task order from professional services firm Mendez England & Associates to provide support services for a U.S. government program that seeks to advance food security efforts in partner countries. ICF will collaborate with ME&A to provide technical support for the Global Program Evaluation for Effectiveness and Learning […] More
General Dynamics’ Electric Boat subsidiary has awarded BAE Systems‘ U.S. arm a contract to produce payload module tubes for integration with the U.S. Navy’s Virginia-class Block V (SSN 774) submarines. The Virginia Payload Module tube is part of the submarine’s mid-body section and is designed to store and launch up to seven Tomahawk cruise missiles, BAE said […] More
Jim Williams, former acting administrator at the General Services Administration, has said he believes there would be a “renewed focus on customer service†in the next U.S. administration. Williams said in a video interview posted Wednesday on Maximus‘ website that he thinks the government should work to know and understand the citizens’ journey as well as […] More
Dell Technologies‘ network security business RSA has introduced updates to a set of platforms designed to help organizations facilitate detection and response to cyber threats. The RSA NetWitness Suite features new tools called “Hunter Packs†that work to provide intelligence data to help organizations detect known and unknown network vulnerabilities, the company said Wednesday. The Hunter Packs […] More
The New York City Department of Environmental Protection has awarded AECOM a potential five-year, $41.5 million contract to provide construction and program management services in support of the city’s Wastewater Resiliency Program. AECOM said Wednesday it will provide such services to facilitate upgrades to 14 wastewater treatment plants and over 50 pumping stations across the […] More
Tony Frazier, senior vice president of government solutions at DigitalGlobe, has said the addition of geospatial information services contractor The Radiant Group to DigitalGlobe would help the latter build up its services business. Frazier wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that he expects the potential combination with Radiant to help DigitalGlobe’s intelligence solutions business expand its customer base […] More
BAE Systems’ U.S. arm has received a potential 14-month, $8.1 million contract option to supply additional data loads to the U.S. Air Force in support of the Diminishing Manufacturing Sources and Material Shortages program. The exercised option on a previously awarded contract also covers maintenance support for previous data loads, as well as determination of lifecycle procurement, […] More
Concurrent Technologies Corp. has launched a new strategy designed to help the U.S. Navy address sensitization that results in corrosion cracking of 5xxx series aluminum alloys used in ship construction. Rob Mason, a principal materials scientist at CTC, introduced the strategy at the American Society of Naval Engineers-hosted Fleet Maintenance and Modernization Symposium held in September […] More
Microsoft has introduced new programs and services that seek to help government agencies adopt cloud platforms. Curt Kolcun, vice president of the U.S. public sector at Microsoft, wrote in an article published Tuesday that the company has made the Azure Government Marketplace and the Operations Management Suite portal available to Azure Government cloud users. The OMS portal works […] More
A Forcepoint study says that millennials’ attitudes toward the use of technology platforms could pose a security risk to the U.S. federal government’s information technology infrastructure. Forcepoint said Tuesday it surveyed over 670 millennials who were born between 1977 and 1994 and found that nearly 25 percent of respondents said they have downloaded third-party applications […] More
The U.S. Army has asked industry to submit concept papers for a potential four-year, $148 million program that aims to identify, develop and demonstrate long-range missile systems. A broad agency announcement posted Monday on FedBizOpps says the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center seeks new system- and component-level technology platforms designed to […] More
A Deloitte report says the total cost overrun for initiatives under the major defense acquisition program portfolio rose from $295 billion in 2008 to $468 billion in 2015. The consulting firm said Monday the Defense Department’s MDAP portfolio in 2015 recorded a 48.3 percent growth in cost with nearly 30 months in average schedule delays. The report is […] More
