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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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  • Cobham Teams Up With 4 Firms to Seek Shenzhen Airlines Boeing 737-800 Certifications for Broadband Terminal
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    Cobham Teams Up With 4 Firms to Seek Shenzhen Airlines Boeing 737-800 Certifications for Broadband Terminal

    Cobham’s satellite communications business has teamed up with four companies to draft the Federal Aviation Administration supplemental type certificate to facilitate the use of the Aviator 300 SwiftBroadband system onboard Shenzhen Airlines’ Boeing 737-800 fleet The Cobham-built Aviator 300 terminal has an intermediate gain antenna and works to support broadband connectivity with data transmission of up to 332 […] More

  • Air Force Subjects 2nd Boeing KC-46A to Initial Flight Test; Col. John Newberry Comments
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    Air Force Subjects 2nd Boeing KC-46A to Initial Flight Test; Col. John Newberry Comments

    The U.S. Air Force has put the second Boeing-built KC-46A Pegasus tanker aircraft through its first flight test nearly two months after the company completed an initial refueling test of the first tanker with an F-16 jet. Boeing test pilots carried out operational checks on the plane’s flight controls, engines and environmental systems after the aircraft […] More

  • GTRI-Root9B-Ziften Alliance to Offer Cyber Risk Mitigation Tools; Greg Byles Comments
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    GTRI-Root9B-Ziften Alliance to Offer Cyber Risk Mitigation Tools; Greg Byles Comments

    Global Technology Resources Inc. has forged a strategic cyber alliance with Ziften and Root9B to help government and commercial clients detect and mitigate threats to their information technology systems. The companies will combine their cyber risk mitigation platforms and services and will work to build up their service delivery and integration models in an effort to […] More

  • KPMG-(ISC)2 Team to Conduct Federal Cybersecurity Survey; Dan Waddell Comments
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    KPMG-(ISC)2 Team to Conduct Federal Cybersecurity Survey; Dan Waddell Comments

    KPMG and nonprofit organization (ISC)2 have teamed up to poll government information security leaders on cybersecurity issues within the federal government. The survey will ask federal executives with data security responsibilities, chief information officers and chief information security officers on how they plan to implement the Cybersecurity National Action Plan, (ISC)2 said Wednesday. The survey will also […] More

  • Report: San Bernardino Police Used Thomson Reuters Tool to Track Suspects; Steve Rubley Comments
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    Report: San Bernardino Police Used Thomson Reuters Tool to Track Suspects; Steve Rubley Comments

    Police officers in San Bernardino County in California used a Thomson Reuters-built investigative platform to locate the suspects involved in a terrorist attack at a county training seminar on Dec. 2, the San Bernardino Sun reported Wednesday. Doug Saunders writes the police officers used Clear, an online database that works to help law enforcement and […] More

  • USPS Seeks Info on Centralized Analytics Platform
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    USPS Seeks Info on Centralized Analytics Platform

    The U.S. Postal Service has asked industry to provide information on a centralized analytics software platform that will work to carry out machine learning methods and provide USPS data-driven insights for use in decision-making. USPS said in a FedBizOpps notice published Feb. 16 that it will consider commercial-off-the-shelf analytics tools that can be customized to […] More

  • Mark Testoni: In-Memory Computing Tools Can Help CIOs Detect, Respond to Cyber Attacks in Real Time
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    Mark Testoni: In-Memory Computing Tools Can Help CIOs Detect, Respond to Cyber Attacks in Real Time

    Mark Testoni, president and CEO of SAP National Security Services, has said the adoption of in-memory computing platforms can help chief information officers detect and respond to cyber threats as they happen. Testoni, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2016,  wrote in an article published Monday on The Guardian that corporate CIOs should understand that data breaches and other forms of […] More

  • Acendre to Offer Talent Management Platforms to USDA Finance Hub
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    Acendre to Offer Talent Management Platforms to USDA Finance Hub

    The Agriculture Department has awarded Acendre a spot on a potential five-year, $92 million blanket purchase agreement to provide human resources platforms for USDA’s national finance center. NFC supports more than 170 federal agencies as a certified shared services center of the Office of Personnel Management, Acendre said Tuesday. Under the BPA, Acendre will offer […] More

  • Navy Taps BAE-Rockwell Collins JV for $52M MIDS JTRS Supply Contract
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    Navy Taps BAE-Rockwell Collins JV for $52M MIDS JTRS Supply Contract

    A joint venture of BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins will produce and provide U.S. and allied forces with lot 4 Multifunctional Information Distribution System Joint Tactical Radio System terminals under a potential $51.8 million contract with the U.S. Navy. Data Link Solutions will perform work in Iowa and New Jersey through August 2017 under the award from […] More

  • UK Navy Tests BAE Systems-Built C2 Platform on Astute-Class Submarine Torpedo
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    UK Navy Tests BAE Systems-Built C2 Platform on Astute-Class Submarine Torpedo

    The U.K. navy used a BAE Systems PLC-built command-and-control platform to test-fire a torpedo onboard Artful, an Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine. BAE’s submarines business designed and integrated the Common Combat System in partnership with Dell, VMware and Aish Technologies, BAE said Monday. The submarine crew members used the system to process data from the vessel’s sensors, analyze sonar […] More

  • Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance
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    Lockheed Martin Adds LogRhythm to Cybersecurity Alliance

    Lockheed Martin will work with LogRhythm on cybersecurity systems integration pilot programs after the latter signed up for the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance. LogRhythm also agreed to offer its security intelligence platform and share cybersecurity-focused best practices with Lockheed as a member of the alliance, Lockheed said Monday. The LogRhythm-built security intelligence tool works to […] More