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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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  • TCS-Intersec Team Seeks to Expand Presence in Location-Based Services Market; Keith Bhatia Comments
    in Big Data & Analytics News, News

    TCS-Intersec Team Seeks to Expand Presence in Location-Based Services Market; Keith Bhatia Comments

    TeleCommunications Systems and analytics software provider Intersec have forged a partnership in an effort to further build up their location-based service offerings. TCS and Intersec have started to provide LBS platforms to operators in Hong Kong, Saudi Arabia and Angola for use in mobile advertising and movement analysis through the strategic partnership, TCS said Tuesday. Both companies […] More

  • GSA Taps American Systems for Transition Coordination Support Task Order; Peter Smith Comments
    in Featured, General, News, Products & Service

    GSA Taps American Systems for Transition Coordination Support Task Order; Peter Smith Comments

    American Systems has been awarded a potential five-year, $34.3 million task order to provide transition planning and policy development support to the General Services Administration’s transition coordination center. GSA established TCC in an effort to help federal agencies transition from multiple telecommunication and legacy network contracts to the NS2020 Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract, the company […] More

  • InfoVista Lands DISA Contract for Network Performance Mgmt Tech on JRSS
    in News, Products & Service

    InfoVista Lands DISA Contract for Network Performance Mgmt Tech on JRSS

    InfoVista has secured a contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to provide its network performance management platform in support of the update on DISA’s Joint Information Environment Joint Regional Security Stacks. InfoVista said Monday it will also supply its service assurance system to enable the JRSS platform to support DISA’s virtual private network. The VPN […] More

  • Northrop Kicks Off Search for 3 X-47B UAV Pilots
    in Industry News, News

    Northrop Kicks Off Search for 3 X-47B UAV Pilots

    Northrop Grumman has begun its search for three pilots to operate the Northrop-built X-47B unmanned aerial vehicle. Northrop said in a job notice the selected candidates will work to determine the UAV’s compliance with operational suitability and specification requirements during flight tests. Northrop developed X-47B under the U.S. Navy‘s Unmanned Combat Air System Carrier Demonstration initiative. The drone is […] More

  • IDC: Global Mobility Spending to Reach Nearly $2T by 2019
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    IDC: Global Mobility Spending to Reach Nearly $2T by 2019

    A new International Data Corp. report predicts consumer and enterprise spending on mobile software, devices and services to hit $1.85 trillion by 2019, up from $1.66 trillion in 2015. IDC said Thursday the figure represents a compound annual growth rate of 2.7 percent over four years as commercial enterprises across industries seek to transform their operations. According to […] More

  • Kratos Subsidiary to Provide Spares, Logistics Support for AF Subscale Aerial Target System
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    Kratos Subsidiary to Provide Spares, Logistics Support for AF Subscale Aerial Target System

    A Kratos Defense & Security Solutions subsidiary has received a potential six-year, $37 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to supply spares for the Kratos-built BQM-167A Air Force Subscale Aerial Target system. Composite Engineering will also provide repairs and logistics support services for the AFSAT platform during operations at a test and training range in Utah and Tyndall […] More

  • WWT Unveils Denver Office for Engineering, Sales Operations; Jim Kavanaugh Comments
    in Industry News, News

    WWT Unveils Denver Office for Engineering, Sales Operations; Jim Kavanaugh Comments

    World Wide Technology has launched a regional office in Denver to house the operations of WWT Asynchrony Labs as well as accommodate its engineering and sales operations. WWT CEO Jim Kavanaugh said Friday the St. Louis-based systems integration firm plans to leverage Denver’s information technology workforce and resources to broaden the services it provides to […] More

  • Lockheed Taps ASRC Federal to Provide Development, Testing Support for Long-Range Radar
    in News, Products & Service

    Lockheed Taps ASRC Federal to Provide Development, Testing Support for Long-Range Radar

    Lockheed Martin has selected ASRC Federal’s mission solutions business to help test and develop the Long Range Discrimination Radar system for the Missile Defense Agency. ASRC Federal said Tuesday the LRDR system works to support the ballistic missile defense system in missile threat detection, interception and elimination. Lockheed currently develops the LRDR platform under a […] More

  • Airbus-OneWeb JV to Build 900-Satellite Constellation; Eric Beranger Comments
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    Airbus-OneWeb JV to Build 900-Satellite Constellation; Eric Beranger Comments

    Airbus’ defense and space business has teamed up with satellite Internet provider OneWeb to launch a new joint venture that will work to develop a constellation of 900 satellites designed to provide Internet communications services worldwide. Brian Holz, vice president of space systems at OneWeb, will serve as CEO of OneWeb Satellites joint venture, Airbus said […] More

  • PwC Survey: 91% of Enterprises Adopt Cyber Frameworks to Detect Network Vulnerabilities
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    PwC Survey: 91% of Enterprises Adopt Cyber Frameworks to Detect Network Vulnerabilities

    A new PwC survey says 91 percent of business organizations have implemented the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework and other risk-based security guidelines in an effort to detect and mitigate cyber threats. PwC polled at least 10,000 C-suite executives of information technology and security firms from more than 127 countries from May 7 through June […] More

  • NIST Seeks Public Input on Randomness in Data Encryption; Elaine Barker Comments
    in Cybersecurity News, News

    NIST Seeks Public Input on Randomness in Data Encryption; Elaine Barker Comments

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the second draft of a document that aims to help computer security professionals assess whether an entropy source of randomness is capable to protect sensitive information. NIST will accept public comments on the latest draft of its publication “Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random […] More