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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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  • MDA Corp. Wins DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Ground Station Upgrade Contract
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    MDA Corp. Wins DigitalGlobe WorldView-4 Ground Station Upgrade Contract

    MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has secured a contract to introduce updates to DigitalGlobe’s international ground stations for customers to directly receive and process Earth imagery and geospatial data from DigitalGlobe’s future WorldView-4 commercial satellite. MDA said Thursday WorldView-4 is scheduled to launch in September 2016 to provide customers with multi-spectral images of the Earth’s surface. The company aims […] More

  • CenturyLink to Mentor Pathway Partners Through GSA Program; Tim Meehan Comments
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    CenturyLink to Mentor Pathway Partners Through GSA Program; Tim Meehan Comments

    CenturyLink has received approval from the General Services Administration to serve as a mentor to Pathway Partners for three years under GSA’s Mentor Protege Program. The Mentor-Protege Program aims to develop partnerships between small businesses and GSA prime contractors, promote business development among smaller firms and help such companies compete for federal contracts, CenturyLink said […] More

  • QTS Adds Vormetric Encryption Platform to Data Security Offerings; Jim Reinhart Comments
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    QTS Adds Vormetric Encryption Platform to Data Security Offerings; Jim Reinhart Comments

    QTS Realty Trust and Vormetric have teamed up to help QTS’ government and commercial data center customers in efforts to meet data compliance requirements and protect their network infrastructures from potential data breaches. The partnership will allow QTS to provide its clients with Vormetric’s software platform, which works to secure data through encryption, user access control […] More

  • DigitalGlobe Taps Raytheon for 2016 WorldView-4 Satellite Launch Mission Planning Support
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    DigitalGlobe Taps Raytheon for 2016 WorldView-4 Satellite Launch Mission Planning Support

    DigitalGlobe has selected Raytheon‘s Constellation Scheduling System to provide mission planning and launch support for DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-4 commercial satellite in September 2016. Raytheon said Thursday CSS is a commercial geospatial system that works to provide automatic scheduling and mission planning support for satellite operators and geospatial data providers. DigitalGlobe announced last year its plans to expedite […] More

  • DARPA Selects SRI International, SwRI for Toxic Chemical Conversion Contracts; Tyler McQuade Comments
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    DARPA Selects SRI International, SwRI for Toxic Chemical Conversion Contracts; Tyler McQuade Comments

    The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has awarded SRI International and Southwest Research Institute contracts to develop and design system prototypes to convert toxic chemicals into soil and other non-hazardous compounds. DARPA said Wednesday it made the awards under the agency’s Agnostic Compact Demilitarization of Chemical Agents initiative. ACDC aims to develop new transportable platforms that will work to neutralize […] More

  • Northrop Demos Ground-Based Targeting System Against UAS; Kay Burch Comments
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    Northrop Demos Ground-Based Targeting System Against UAS; Kay Burch Comments

    Northrop Grumman has conducted a demonstration of a ground-based system to test its production of targeting data and detection and monitoring of an adversary’s unmanned aircraft system. The company demonstrated the Venom platform at the U.S. Army’s Maneuver-Fires Integrated Experiment held in Oklahoma, Northrop said Tuesday. The Venom system tracked small drones and provided two land-based […] More

  • Hera Systems Obtains Spacecraft Source Code License From NASA Ames; Bobby Machinski Comments
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    Hera Systems Obtains Spacecraft Source Code License From NASA Ames; Bobby Machinski Comments

    Hera Systems has gained access to a source code related to two pending patents for the Cost Optimized Test of Spacecraft Avionics and Technologies spacecraft through a licensing agreement with NASA’s Ames Research Center. The company said Wednesday it will use the source code of COTSAT’s star tracker and spacecraft modular software in order to […] More

  • ARGO Systems Lands $90M Navy Power System Support IDIQ
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    ARGO Systems Lands $90M Navy Power System Support IDIQ

    ARGO Systems has won a potential five-year, $90 million contract from the U.S. Navy to provide support services for critical power systems at government facilities worldwide. The Naval Facilities Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center awarded the indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract through a competitive acquisition process with three offers received, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The award covers planning, […] More

  • Dell Survey: 82% of Federal Agencies Use NIST Cyber Framework
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    Dell Survey: 82% of Federal Agencies Use NIST Cyber Framework

    A new Dell survey has found that 82 percent of federal information technology personnel say their agencies use the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity in efforts to improve security of computer networks. The NIST cybersecurity framework aims to help agencies “identify, detect, protect, respond and recover from cyber threats,” Paul Christman, […] More

  • AT&T Receives Education Dept Mobile Service Support Contract; Mike Leff Comments
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    AT&T Receives Education Dept Mobile Service Support Contract; Mike Leff Comments

    AT&T has secured a three-year contract to provide mobile devices and related management support services for the Education Department. The contract covers data and voice services, smartphones and tablet devices, onsite support and mobile device management services, AT&T said Tuesday. Mike Leff, vice president for civilian agencies at AT&T’s government solutions business, said the company’s mobility […] More

  • MDA Taps a.i. solutions for $73M BMD System Support Contract
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    MDA Taps a.i. solutions for $73M BMD System Support Contract

    The Missile Defense Agency has awarded a.i. solutions a potential three-year, $73 million contract to provide engineering, consulting and mission assurance support services for the Ballistic Missile Defense System. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract also covers risk management quality assurance process, system fielding, sustainment, ground and flight tests, configuration management, parts, and test anomaly and technical risk […] More

  • State Dept Clears $70M Boeing Munitions Tail Kit FMS Deal With Turkey
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    State Dept Clears $70M Boeing Munitions Tail Kit FMS Deal With Turkey

    The State Department has approved Turkey’s request to buy Joint Direct Attack Munitions tail kits and related components from the U.S. under a potential $70 million foreign military sales agreement. Boeing will act as the principal contractor for the sale that covers JDAM GBU-31(V)1, GBU-31(V)3, GBU-38, GBU-54 JDAM laser kits, FMU-152A/B fuzes and BLU-109 hard target […] More