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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.
A team composed of AECOM and Flatiron Construction has been selected by the Colorado Department of Transportation to design and construct the C-470 highway’s express lanes in Denver’s south metro area as part of a $215 million project. AECOM said Tuesday Colorado DOT held a bidding process for the project on March 30 and selected […] More
Australia’s finance department has issued a request for proposals to establish a panel of telecommunications service providers in November that would provide transport data link services, managed wide-area network and Internet connection services to government agencies, ZDNet reported Monday. Corinne Reichert writes the proposed TSP would replace Australia’s Internet based network connection services committee and […] More
GP Strategies has been awarded two contracts to provide training administrative and consulting support services for Lockheed Martin’s aerospace and defense business over a three-year period. The contracts also cover course development, instructional design and other learning support services for all employees and facilities within Lockheed’s aerospace and defense business, GP Strategies said Tuesday. GP Strategies […] More
The General Services Administration has asked industry on behalf of the mobile services category team to provide information on how vendors sell enterprise mobile devices and services to federal agencies. GSA said in a FedBizOpps notice posted May 2 the request for information is part of MSCT’s compliance with the Office of Management and Budget’s […] More
The Federal Aviation Administration has teamed up with Sensofusion, Gryphon Sensors and Liteye Systems to perform research and develop platforms that work to detect and track unmanned aerial systems near airports as part of the Pathfinder program. FAA said Monday the initiative aims to detect unauthorized operations of drones at airports and facilitate the integration of UAS […] More
DEW Construction has received a $23 million contract from the General Services Administration to perform updates to the land port of entry facility in Derby Line, Vermont. Robert Zarnetske, administrator for the New England Region at GSA, said Monday the project is scheduled to start by the summer of 2016. “Upgrading one of the key […] More
Northrop Grumman has completed a critical design review of the electronic subsystem of the U.S. Navy’s AN/SLQ-32(V)7 electronic warfare platform. The company said Monday the CDR is part of the service branch’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program Block 3 development. The AN/SLQ-32(V)7 system works to detect and counter anti-ship missiles and other threats through signal analysis. Northrop […] More
Sandia National Laboratories has teamed up with the U.S. Marine Corps in an effort to help the service branch draft investment plans on microgrid and renewable energy projects through the use of the Microgrid Design Toolkit. MDT is a Sandia-built software platform that works to help users evaluate technology options, design microgrids and determine potential trade-offs […] More
NASA’s Planetary Data System has unveiled Mercury’s initial global digital elevation model produced through the use of at least 100,000 images and data collected by the space agency’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging spacecraft. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory said Friday the global DEM details the planet’s lowest and highest elevation and other topographic features. […] More
IBM and South Korea-based information technology firm SK Holdings C&C will collaborate on efforts to add Korean to the IBM-built Watson cognitive computing platform’s list of seven conversational languages. IBM said Sunday the partnership aims to provide application program interfaces and services designed to help South Korean application developers develop their own software apps in their native […] More
Cambridge International Systems has received a five-year contract from NASA to provide information technology management and other technical services in support of the Johnson Space Center’s Base Information Technology Security Program. The space agency made the award under the National Institutes of Health Information Technology Acquisition and Assessment Center Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 contract vehicle, […] More
Accellion has obtained what the company called an “in-process†certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer a private cloud platform to federal agencies. The company said Thursday it expects to achieve a full FedRAMP certification in 2016 for its Kiteworks Federal Cloud offering. Palo Alto, California-based Accellion’s Kiteworks is a software-as-a-service […] More
