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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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  • Carahsoft Adds Sonim Technologies’ Mobile Platforms to 2 Govt Contracts
    in Mobility, News

    Carahsoft Adds Sonim Technologies’ Mobile Platforms to 2 Govt Contracts

    Carahsoft Technology has agreed to offer Sonim Technologies’ mobile devices and related accessories to U.S. public sector customers through Carahsoft’s two government contracts. Sonim’s mobile devices such as the XP7 smartphone will be available to government agencies through Carahsoft’s National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance and Cooperative Purchasing Network contracts, Sonim said Thursday. “Sonim is excited to be included among Carahsoft’s […] More

  • ExxonMobil Taps Lockheed to Support Automation System Devt; Paula Hartley, Vijay Swarup Comment
    in Industry News, News, Products & Service

    ExxonMobil Taps Lockheed to Support Automation System Devt; Paula Hartley, Vijay Swarup Comment

    Lockheed Martin has secured a contract from ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Co. to provide systems integration support for the development of an automation system for production facilities, the companies said Thursday. Lockheed will work to leverage its experience in the implementation of commercial processing and open architecture standards in order to meet ExxonMobil’s requirements for a […] More

  • Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Completes GPS III Satellite Thermal Vacuum Test
    in C4ISR News, Featured, General, News

    Rick Ambrose: Lockheed Completes GPS III Satellite Thermal Vacuum Test

    Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin‘s space systems segment, has said the company has concluded a thermal vacuum test on the first satellite for the U.S. Air Force’s GPS III program, Space News reported Wednesday. Mike Gruss writes Ambrose made the announcement through a post on his Twitter account. Lockheed is contracted to develop eight GPS III satellites […] More

  • IBM Concludes Upgrade Work on NOAA’s Weather Forecasting Supercomputers; Kathryn Sullivan Comments
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    IBM Concludes Upgrade Work on NOAA’s Weather Forecasting Supercomputers; Kathryn Sullivan Comments

    IBM has completed upgrade work on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s supercomputing systems intended for weather and climate forecasts under a $44.5 million contract. The company worked to increase the operational computing capacity of the Luna and Surge supercomputers from 776 teraflops to 2.89 petaflops each, the Commerce Department reported Wednesday. “The faster runs and better spatial […] More

  • AF Requests Info on Sense-and-Avoid Tech Sources for Remotely Piloted Aircraft
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    AF Requests Info on Sense-and-Avoid Tech Sources for Remotely Piloted Aircraft

    The U.S. Air Force has sought information on potential industry sources that can equip remotely piloted aircraft with platforms that work to “sense and avoid” other aerial vehicles in order to prevent collisions in airspace. The service branch said in a FedBizOpps notice posted Tuesday it will assess potential SAA technology systems based on nine technology […] More

  • Coast Guard Seeks Industry Information on New Icebreakers; Adm. Paul Zukunft Comments
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    Coast Guard Seeks Industry Information on New Icebreakers; Adm. Paul Zukunft Comments

    The U.S. Coast Guard has issued a request for information on potential contractors that can build new icebreakers intended to perform missions in the Arctic, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday. Sydney Freedberg Jr. writes the service branch issued notional requirements and a notional schedule for the Polar Icebreaker Replacement Program through a special notice published Wednesday […] More

  • Lockheed Picks Northrop to Supply Inertial Measurement Unit for Satellite Bus
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    Lockheed Picks Northrop to Supply Inertial Measurement Unit for Satellite Bus

    Lockheed Martin has awarded Northrop Grumman a contract to supply an inertial measurement unit for the Lockheed-built LM 300 satellite bus. The Northrop-made LN-200S IMU is a small fiber optic-based navigational tool that works to provide vehicle control systems with angular motion and acceleration data, Northrop said Tuesday. The LN-200S IMU has been integrated with satellites […] More

  • Army Taps QSM for Software Estimation Support Contract; Joe Madden Comments
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    Army Taps QSM for Software Estimation Support Contract; Joe Madden Comments

    Quantitative Software Management has secured a five-year contract to provide software estimation and tracking support to the U.S. Army’s office of the deputy assistant secretary for cost and economics. QSM will work to help ODASA-CE identify and reduce software risks through cost estimates preparation and software inputs collection through collaboration with programming offices, the company […] More

  • NOAA Receives 2nd Lockheed-Built Lightning Mapper for GOES-S Weather Satellite
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    NOAA Receives 2nd Lockheed-Built Lightning Mapper for GOES-S Weather Satellite

    Lockheed Martin has handed to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration the second Geostationary Lightning Mapper for integration with NOAA’s second Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite. The GLM sensor will fly onboard the GOES-S spacecraft and will work to monitor lightning from geostationary orbit in order to detect and provide warnings on tornadoes, storms and other severe […] More

  • AT&T to Provide Cloud Adoption Support to FCC; Mike Leff Comments
    in Featured, General, Government Cloud, News

    AT&T to Provide Cloud Adoption Support to FCC; Mike Leff Comments

    AT&T has been awarded a five-year contract to provide the Federal Communications Commission with an Internet Protocol service to help FCC adopt cloud services. The IP service will work to establish a connection between data centers and offices to help FCC gain access to various cloud service providers as well as alter Internet and network needs, AT&T […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Satellite Operators, DoD to Collaborate on Commercial Integration Cell Program
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    Inmarsat’s Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch: Satellite Operators, DoD to Collaborate on Commercial Integration Cell Program

    Rebecca Cowen-Hirsch, a senior vice president at Inmarsat, has said her company and five other satellite contractors will collaborate with the Defense Department to test the Commercial Integration Cell program within DoD’s Joint Space Operations Center. Cowen-Hirsch wrote in an Inmarsat blog post published Monday that she expects the program to help improve the Pentagon’s space operations and […] More

  • Aerojet Rocketdyne, NASA to Collaborate on CubeSat Propulsion System Development
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    Aerojet Rocketdyne, NASA to Collaborate on CubeSat Propulsion System Development

    Aerojet Rocketdyne and NASA have formed a partnership to further development work on a propulsion system designed for CubeSats and other types of nanosatellites. Aerojet Rocketdyne will work to integrate a green propellant called AF-M315E with the MPS-130 CubeSat propulsion platform under NASA’s Utilizing Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Tipping Point Technologies program, the company said Monday. The company will […] More