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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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  • Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: ‘Operational Security Posture’ Key to Computer Network Defense
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    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: ‘Operational Security Posture’ Key to Computer Network Defense

    Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said enterprises should establish what he called an “operational security posture” in order to safeguard data networks, endpoints and cloud services from malware and other cyber threats amid the adoption of Internet-connected devices. Nadella made the remarks Monday at the Microsoft-hosted Government Cloud Forum held in Washington. He said this approach requires a comprehensive […] More

  • Lockheed Unveils New Ground-Based Radar Platform
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    Lockheed Unveils New Ground-Based Radar Platform

    Lockheed Martin has introduced a ground-based radar platform designed to reduce array power consumption. The gallium nitride-based Digital Array Row Transceiver platform is a line-replaceable unit that consists of a row transmitter and row receiver, Lockheed said Tuesday. DART has been deployed in TPS-77 Multi Role Radar system that works for aerial surveillance operations and can be […] More

  • TSA Seeks IT Engineering, Application Architecture Support for Customer Engagement Division
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    TSA Seeks IT Engineering, Application Architecture Support for Customer Engagement Division

    The Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration has requested information on potential vendors that can provide information technology consulting, engineering and application architecture services for the office of information technology’s customer engagement and development division. TSA said in a FedBizOpps notice published Friday potential contractors will work to support efforts to update application systems […] More

  • SPAWAR Taps BAE-Rockwell Collins JV for On-Ship Communications System; Jack Stevens Comments
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    SPAWAR Taps BAE-Rockwell Collins JV for On-Ship Communications System; Jack Stevens Comments

    A joint venture of BAE Systems and Rockwell Collins has secured a potential two-year, $32 million contract to deliver Multifunctional Information Distribution System-On-Ship platforms for integration with surface warships of the U.S. Navy and foreign naval forces. Data Link Solutions will provide up to 12 Lot 4 production MOS units under the firm-fixed-price contract awarded by the […] More

  • Hughes, Signal Mountain Complete Satcom Network Deployment for USGS Seismic System
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    Hughes, Signal Mountain Complete Satcom Network Deployment for USGS Seismic System

    Signal Mountain Networks and its subcontractor Hughes Network Systems have completed the deployment of a satellite communications network at 80 locations under a potential four-year, $1 million contract with the U.S. Geological Survey. The satcom network is meant for data collection efforts in the U.S. and Caribbean in support of the USGS Global Seismographic Network’s […] More

  • Lockheed Gets Contract Modification to Update Aegis BMD on Navy Ships
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    Lockheed Gets Contract Modification to Update Aegis BMD on Navy Ships

    Lockheed Martin has received a potential one-year, $36.7 million contract modification to provide engineering support and upgrade the Aegis Ballistis Missile Defense system aboard the U.S. Navy’s DDG-51-class guided missile destroyers and CG57-class cruisers. The company will perform work in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Virginia through September 2016 under the service branch’s Aegis Modernization Advanced Capability […] More

  • NIST: FY 2013 Federal Tech Transfer Efforts Generated $185M in Active Licenses-Related Income
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    NIST: FY 2013 Federal Tech Transfer Efforts Generated $185M in Active Licenses-Related Income

    The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued a new report on federal laboratories’ technology transfer efforts in fiscal year 2013 as part of the Obama administration’s Lab-to-Market Cross-Agency Priority Goal. NIST said Tuesday 5,492 active income bearing licenses resulted in approximately $185 million income in fiscal 2013. Other findings of the Federal Laboratory Technology […] More

  • Huntington Ingalls, Coast Guard Name Legend-Class Cutter ‘Munro’
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    Huntington Ingalls, Coast Guard Name Legend-Class Cutter ‘Munro’

    Huntington Ingalls Industries and the U.S. Coast Guard christened the agency’s sixth National Security Cutter ship during a christening ceremony Saturday at the company’s shipyard in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The company’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division unveiled the Legend-class NSC ship’s name as Munro at the ceremony attended by nearly 600 guests, HII said Saturday. Munro, a 418-foot-long vessel, is named after Signalman First Class Douglas Munro, […] More

  • Reuters: Northrop Eyes Hawkeye Sales With Other Foreign Countries
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    Reuters: Northrop Eyes Hawkeye Sales With Other Foreign Countries

    Northrop Grumman is talking with countries in the Persian Gulf, North Africa and Asia on potential purchases of the country’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye aircraft despite the United Arab Emirates’ decision to not buy that plane, Reuters reported Friday. Andrea Shalal writes the UAE agreed earlier in the week to purchase $1.27 billion in Saab-built early warning planes. Northrop officials told Reuters Japan […] More

  • Transcom Seeks C5 Support for Joint Enabling Capabilities Command
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    Transcom Seeks C5 Support for Joint Enabling Capabilities Command

    The U.S. Transportation Command wants information on potential contractors that can provide command, control, cyber, communications and collaboration support for the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command. Transcom said in a FedBizOpps notice published Nov. 9 that it is in search of vendors that can provide cyber defense, life-cycle sustainment, software management, automatic data processing equipment degaussing and disposal […] More

  • Aurora Flight Sciences Lands Contract Modification for Navy Unmanned Aerial Cargo Platform
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    Aurora Flight Sciences Lands Contract Modification for Navy Unmanned Aerial Cargo Platform

    Aurora Flight Sciences has received a potential two-year, $11 million contract modification to build an autonomous airborne cargo platform for the U.S. Navy. The Autonomous Aerial Cargo Utility System is an Office of Naval Research-funded program that seeks to allow remote-controlled, vertical take-off and landing platforms to perform cargo deliveries in unprepared landing sites, the […] More

  • DHS Taps TCS for 2nd Phase Geo-Targeting Emergency Alert System Research
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    DHS Taps TCS for 2nd Phase Geo-Targeting Emergency Alert System Research

    The Department of Homeland Security has picked TeleCommunications Systems to perform the second phase of a study to examine how geo-targeting methods can help transmit mobile-based emergency alerts to the public through algorithms. TCS has teamed up with ClearTalk Wireless to conduct field tests and validate theoretical concepts via the latter’s mobile network for the eight-month study, TCS said […] More