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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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  • Accellion Gets ‘In-Process’ FedRAMP Certification for Private Cloud Platform; Yorgen Edholm Comments
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    Accellion Gets ‘In-Process’ FedRAMP Certification for Private Cloud Platform; Yorgen Edholm Comments

    Accellion has obtained what the company called an “in-process” certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program to offer a private cloud platform to federal agencies. The company said Thursday it expects to achieve a full FedRAMP certification in 2016 for its Kiteworks Federal Cloud offering. Palo Alto, California-based Accellion’s Kiteworks is a software-as-a-service […] More

  • Harris, PrecisionHawk Expand UAS Airspace Mgmt Partnership; Ed Sayadian Comments
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    Harris, PrecisionHawk Expand UAS Airspace Mgmt Partnership; Ed Sayadian Comments

    Harris Corp. and PrecisionHawk have agreed to expand their alliance in an effort to launch platforms designed to meet situational awareness and operational requirements of unmanned aerial system pilots. The companies will use the PrecisionHawk-built Low Altitude Traffic and Airspace Safety platform to develop and deploy tools that will work to support airspace management operations […] More

  • Air Force Eyes Auto Takeoff, Landing Platform for General Atomics Reaper UAV; Chris Pehrson, Travis Burdine Comment
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    Air Force Eyes Auto Takeoff, Landing Platform for General Atomics Reaper UAV; Chris Pehrson, Travis Burdine Comment

    The U.S. Air Force plans to integrate a system with the General Atomics-built MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle that will work to help the UAV perform take off and land automatically, Flightglobal reported Wednesday. Chris Pehrson, senior director of strategic development for General Atomics’ aeronautical systems business, told Flightglobal reporter James Drew that the auto takeoff and landing platform […] More

  • GSA Picks eGlobalTech for Program Mgmt Support Contract
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    GSA Picks eGlobalTech for Program Mgmt Support Contract

    The General Services Administration has awarded eGlobalTech a $15 million contract to provide program management services to GSA’s office of government-wide policy. Contract work covers sustainment and analysis support and provision of project management professionals, analysts and managers to help OGP in its process modification and strategic planning efforts, eGlobalTech said Wednesday. GSA’s OGP oversees the development of […] More

  • Northrop, RFID Global to Present Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection Tools at DARPA Demo Day
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    Northrop, RFID Global to Present Counterfeit Electronic Part Detection Tools at DARPA Demo Day

    Northrop Grumman and its partner RFID Global Solution will showcase at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency-hosted Demo Day a miniaturized chip and software designed to detect counterfeit electronic components. RFID Global said Tuesday it developed the Visi-Trac software application in support of a $12.3 million contract that Northrop received from DARPA in 2015 for the agency’s […] More

  • Rockwell Collins Completes Integrated Instrumentation System Production Readiness Review
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    Rockwell Collins Completes Integrated Instrumentation System Production Readiness Review

    Rockwell Collins has concluded the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System‘s production readiness review in collaboration with the CRIIS System Program Office and the Test Resource Management Center. The company said Wednesday the Defense Department requires the PRR before it allows the system to move to the production phase. Rockwell Collins’ CRIIS is designed to replace the Advanced […] More

  • Exelis to Supply Precision Approach Radars to US Military
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    Exelis to Supply Precision Approach Radars to US Military

    Harris Corp. subsidiary Exelis has been awarded a potential five-year, $70.3 million contract to provide 42 Precision Approach Radars to the U.S. Navy, Army and Air Force as replacements for AN-FPN-63(V) radar systems. The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract also includes ancillary installation, uninterruptible power supplies and training support services for the three service branches, the Defense Department said Wednesday. The Exelis-built PAR system comprises […] More

  • UK NHS to Provide Google’s DeepMind Access to Patient Data Under Data Sharing Agreement
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    UK NHS to Provide Google’s DeepMind Access to Patient Data Under Data Sharing Agreement

    Google’s DeepMind subsidiary and the U.K. National Health Service have signed an agreement that would allow DeepMind to gain access to healthcare information of approximately 1.6 million patients of three Royal Free NHS Trust-run hospitals in London, New Scientist reported Friday. Hal Hodson writes the data sharing agreement between NHS and Google’s artificial intelligence firm […] More

  • Inmarsat’s Kai Tang: First Responders Need Mobile Satcom Tools, Services in Disasters, Humanitarian Relief Missions
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    Inmarsat’s Kai Tang: First Responders Need Mobile Satcom Tools, Services in Disasters, Humanitarian Relief Missions

    Kai Tang, vice president of the U.S. government business unit at Inmarsat, has told MilsatMagazine that first responders and nongovernmental organizations need to quickly mobilize during humanitarian relief missions and disasters through the use of satellite communications services. Tang said in an interview published in the magazine’s April 2016 edition that Inmarsat seeks to address […] More

  • Boeing’s Insitu Forms Commercial Business Unit, Sells UAS Software to University Client
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    Boeing’s Insitu Forms Commercial Business Unit, Sells UAS Software to University Client

    Boeing’s Insitu subsidiary has established a business unit that will work to assist commercial clients in their data collection and processing efforts through unmanned aerial systems. Insitu said Monday the new unit will offer several products and services including aerial vehicles, Inexa Control software designed to operate UAS and Catalina and TacitView software for multi-sensor […] More

  • Honeywell, NASA Demo Software, Cockpit Displays for Sonic Boom Prediction; Brett Pauer Comments
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    Honeywell, NASA Demo Software, Cockpit Displays for Sonic Boom Prediction; Brett Pauer Comments

    Honeywell and NASA have developed and flight-tested a software tool and cockpit displays designed to help supersonic jet pilots predict sonic booms under a two-year contract with the space agency. Honeywell said Tuesday the contract was awarded in 2015 as part of the space agency’s Commercial Supersonic Technology Project that aims to mitigate sonic booms’ impact on […] More

  • DOJ Requests Info on Body-Worn Cameras for Market Survey
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    DOJ Requests Info on Body-Worn Cameras for Market Survey

    The Justice Department has issued a request for information in support of the National Institute of Justice’s upcoming market survey that aims to identify commercial body-worn cameras designed for use in law enforcement operations. DOJ’s justice programs office said in a Federal Register notice posted Thursday the survey will work to help law enforcement agencies’ purchasing agents […] More