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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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  • Polycom’s Sean Berg: Public Sector Agencies Seek Collaboration Tools for Unified Communications, Workflows
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    Polycom’s Sean Berg: Public Sector Agencies Seek Collaboration Tools for Unified Communications, Workflows

    Sean Berg, vice president for Polycom’s public sector business, has said a “workplace of the future” concept continues to evolve for public sector agencies as mobile device use grows and millennials enter the workforce. Berg told Public Sector View in an interview posted Thursday that one trend he observes is growth in usage of video collaboration platforms that […] More

  • Trend Micro Gets DISA STIG Clearance for Security Tool Configuration Document
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    Trend Micro Gets DISA STIG Clearance for Security Tool Configuration Document

    Trend Micro has secured clearance from the Defense Information Systems Agency for its configuration document designed for use in the deployment of the company’s security tool on Defense Department-run networks. DISA cleared the configuration document for the Trend Micro Deep Security 9.x platform after the agency assessed the guidelines against Security Technical Implementation Guides technical […] More

  • Army Seeks Industry Info on Telemedicine IT Platforms, Services
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    Army Seeks Industry Info on Telemedicine IT Platforms, Services

    The U.S. Army has released a request for information on potential industry sources of information technology platforms and services in support of the service branch’s telehealth program for patients at home and other remote locations. The Army Medical Command said in a FedBizOpps notice published Monday the RFI is in response to a Feb. 3 memorandum issued by […] More

  • DoD, DHS Buy 100 Units of Battelle’s Drone Defense Tool; Dan Stamm Comments
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    DoD, DHS Buy 100 Units of Battelle’s Drone Defense Tool; Dan Stamm Comments

    Battelle has sold nearly 100 units of a portable drone defense system to the departments of Defense and Homeland Security. The nonprofit science organization’s DroneDefender technology works to disrupt the operations of unmanned aircraft systems at a range of up to 1,300 feet through the use of radio control frequency, Battelle said Wednesday. “The idea is to quickly […] More

  • GSA Schedules RFP Release for Veterans Tech Services 2 Contract Vehicle
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    GSA Schedules RFP Release for Veterans Tech Services 2 Contract Vehicle

    The General Services Administration plans to issue a request for proposals on the potential 10-year Veterans Technology Services 2 contract vehicle April 21. GSA said in a FedBizOpps presolicitation notice posted Tuesday the VETS 2 contract will cover information technology products and support services for federal agencies and will be a set-aside program for service-disabled, […] More

  • Microsoft, AWS, CSRA Near FedRAMP High Baseline Certifications for Cloud Platforms
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    Microsoft, AWS, CSRA Near FedRAMP High Baseline Certifications for Cloud Platforms

    Microsoft, Amazon Web Services and CSRA are in the process of securing high baseline certifications for their cloud platforms under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, Federal Times reported March 21. Aaron Boyd writes the cloud service providers are scheduled to receive their authorizations in April following their involvement in a pilot program that seeks […] More

  • Lockheed Lands $79M Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Modification
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    Lockheed Lands $79M Navy Undersea Warfare System Contract Modification

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential $79 million contract modification to produce Technical Insertion 14 baseline for the U.S. Navy’s underwater combat systems for fiscal 2016. The fixed-price-incentive-firm modification for the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Undersea Warfare System covers a part of a foreign military sales agreement with Japan and was awarded through a competitive procurement process, the […] More

  • Northrop-MSU Research Seeks to Manage Supercomputers’ Energy Consumption With Magnetic Memory Element
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    Northrop-MSU Research Seeks to Manage Supercomputers’ Energy Consumption With Magnetic Memory Element

    Northrop Grumman and Michigan State University have developed a magnetic memory component designed to manage the heat generation and energy consumption of supercomputers. Researchers at Northrop and MSU carried out the study as part of a grant from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, MSU said Friday. “One of the major impediments to superconducting computing technology […] More

  • GSA Picks Unisys Cloud Platform for FedRAMP Accelerated Pilot Program
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    GSA Picks Unisys Cloud Platform for FedRAMP Accelerated Pilot Program

    The General Services Administration has selected a Unisys-built government cloud offering to participate in a pilot program that aims to expedite the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program certification process. The FedRAMP Accelerated pilot initiative seeks to shorten the FedRAMP approval process to less than six months from the current time frame of six to 18 […] More

  • Report: Lockheed, Boeing Eye F-16, Super Hornet Production in India
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    Report: Lockheed, Boeing Eye F-16, Super Hornet Production in India

    Lockheed Martin and Boeing held a meeting with officials of India’s defense ministry Tuesday in New Delhi to discuss the possible production of F-16 Super Viper and F/A 18 Super Hornet fighter jets in India, the Economic Times reported Wednesday. Manu Pubby writes Keith Webster, director of international cooperation for the defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology […] More

  • BAE-Airbus-Finmeccanica Team Lands Eurofighter Typhoon Supply Contract With Kuwait
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    BAE-Airbus-Finmeccanica Team Lands Eurofighter Typhoon Supply Contract With Kuwait

    A consortium of BAE Systems, Airbus’ defense and space business and Finmeccanica’s Alenia Aermacchi subsidiary has won a contract to provide 28 Eurofighter Typhoon aircraft to Kuwait. The contract award to Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug comes after Kuwait signed an aircraft procurement agreement with the government of Italy in September 2015, Eurofighter said Tuesday. The consortium will produce […] More