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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.
The U.S. Army has issued a solicitation in search of design proposals from industry for a new engine to replace General Electric-built T700-GE-701C/D engines that run on UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache helicopters, the Army website reported Tuesday. The Improved Turbine Engine Program is designed to equip Apache and Black Hawk aircraft with 3,000 […] More
Leidos and Boundless have forged a strategic alliance to further develop and market open-source geospatial software and cyber defense tools and services. The partnership will allow Leidos to use Boundless’ OpenGeo Suite geospatial platform to update its proprietary systems with open-source applications and support its integration initiatives that seek to address intelligence and national security efforts, Leidos […] More
Chris Young, senior vice president and general manager of Intel‘s security group, has said in an interview that regular software updates could help safeguard connected automobiles from potential cyber attacks. “When you find vulnerabilities or things that are wrong, the sooner you can respond and update your software on the device, the better the overall protections […] More
ICF International has won two contracts worth $36 million combined from the departments of Housing and Urban Development and Health and Human Services to provide database management support and continue work on a study. One potential four-year, $31.2 million recompete contract calls on ICF to continue its provide data collection, training and data analysis for the HUD Policy Development […] More
A joint venture of Thales Group and Raytheon has been awarded a contract to supply mobile radar systems to Latvia’s armed forces. ThalesRaytheonSystems said Wednesday it will deliver four Improved Sentinel AN/MPQ-64 F1 radars to Latvia. Sentinel is a mobile, three-dimensional radar system intended for missile system coordination, infrastructure protection and airborne surveillance operations. The phased-array […] More
AECOM will perform engineering, procurement and construction work on selective catalytic reduction components for a coal-fired power plant in New Mexico under a contract with Arizona Public Service. The contract covers the installation of SCR retrofits and related balance of plant systems and equipment at units 4 and 5 that APS operates at the New […] More
Established vendors continue to dominate the federal market for cloud platforms amid competition with commercial newcomers, Alex Rossino writes in a blog post for Deltek. Rossino, a principal research analyst at Deltek, cited IBM as the leading federal cloud vendor based on the value of awarded contracts from fiscal year 2011 to fiscal year 2015. IBM booked $603 […] More
Harris Corp. will manufacture new handheld radios for the U.S. Special Operations Forces under a potential six-year, $390 million contract. Harris said Tuesday its SOF Tactical Communications handheld radio is designed to help users simultaneously communicate over two channels and legacy systems. The STC radio has a Selective Availability Anti-Spoofing Module GPS receiver and a […] More
A business unit of BWX Technologies has been awarded $34.5 million in contracts to produce nuclear reactors and related components for the U.S. Navy’s aircraft carriers and submarines. BWXT‘s nuclear operations group will perform majority of the contract work at its facilities in Virginia, Ohio and Indiana in the next two years, BWX Technologies said Monday. […] More
Advanced Onion has secured a $1.8 million contract from the Defense Information Systems Agency to help find 21.5 million people whose personal data was compromised in a data breach at the Office of Personnel Management, Nextgov reported Monday. The technology company will work to build a system designed to log the reason for breach notification letters that […] More
Norfolk, Va.’s police department has started to implement a LexisNexis Risk Solutions-built reporting tool. Lexis Nexis’ Desk Officer Reporting System works to help users submit crime reports online and communicate directly with police personnel in multiple languages, including Spanish, LexisNexis said Monday. The police department also has become the first East Coast agency to allow users to buy […] More
A new report by Booz Allen Hamilton and not-for-profit ISC says women make up only 10 percent of the information security workforce and have a lower average salary than that of men when it comes to governance, risk and compliance roles. Frost & Sullivan polled nearly 14,000 data security professionals for the Women in Security: Wisely […] More
