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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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  • Nat’l Defense Magazine: DoD’s LPTA Contracts Up 10% Between FY 2009-13
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    Nat’l Defense Magazine: DoD’s LPTA Contracts Up 10% Between FY 2009-13

    The Defense Department’s increasing use of “lowest price-technically acceptable” procedures to buy information technology systems and services has raised some concerns among some IT defense contractors, National Defense reported Wednesday. Sandra Erwin writes DoD’s use of LPTA bids to award contracts rose from 26 percent of total awards in fiscal year 2009 to 36 percent in fiscal year 2013. Kevin […] More

  • Italy’s Boeing-Built Tanker Completes Foreign Aerial Refueling Test With US F-35A
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    Italy’s Boeing-Built Tanker Completes Foreign Aerial Refueling Test With US F-35A

    The Boeing-built KC-767A tanker from Italy has completed its first foreign aerial refueling test with the U.S. Air Force’s F-35A fighter plane, Breaking Defense reported Thursday. Colin Clark writes the Italian tanker completed the certification refueling test in California on July 29. The F-35A fighter aircraft received 16,000 pounds of fuel from the KC-767A tanker […] More

  • Serco Adds Navy C4ISR System Installation Task Order; Dan Allen Comments
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    Serco Adds Navy C4ISR System Installation Task Order; Dan Allen Comments

    Serco‘s North American subsidiary has received a nine-month, $13 million task order to install new command, communication, control, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platforms for the U.S. Navy. The contract also covers certification and testing services related to C4ISR systems, Serco Inc. said Thursday. Dan Allen, chairman and CEO of Serco Inc., said the company’s work under the […] More

  • NIST, NOAA Aim to Support Minority Businesses Through Partnership
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    NIST, NOAA Aim to Support Minority Businesses Through Partnership

    Two Commerce Department agencies have teamed up with the Minority Business Development Agency and the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer to launch a consortium to help minority-owned enterprises develop and commercialize their technology platforms and services. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology will collaborate with MBDA […] More

  • Lockheed’s Mahesh Kalva, Andrew Underhill: Health IT Groups Need to Craft Security Policies to Protect Private Cloud Data
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    Lockheed’s Mahesh Kalva, Andrew Underhill: Health IT Groups Need to Craft Security Policies to Protect Private Cloud Data

    Information technology staff at health organizations should craft risk management policies and adopt security measures to secure medical data in a private cloud platform, two chief technologists at Lockheed Martin wrote in a GCN article published Wednesday. Mahesh Kalva and Andrew Underhill said health care IT personnel must carry out certain measures  such as penetration auditing, firewall […] More

  • HP-Led Consortium, Fujitsu Land $2B in UK Defense IT Support Contracts; Michael Fallon Comments
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    HP-Led Consortium, Fujitsu Land $2B in UK Defense IT Support Contracts; Michael Fallon Comments

    A consortium led by Hewlett-Packard and Fujitsu have been awarded contracts worth up to $2.3 billion combined for information technology and communications services to the U.K.’s defense ministry. HP will collaborate with Airbus, Fujitsu and CGI under the Atlas Consortium to provide IT systems, software platforms and cloud services for U.K. defense offices and military bases under the $1.5 billion […] More

  • Dell, Innovation Institute Enter Health IT Development Partnership; Sid Nair Comments
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    Dell, Innovation Institute Enter Health IT Development Partnership; Sid Nair Comments

    The Innovation Institute has tapped Dell to become a founding partner of its California-based Innovation Lab to help develop health information technology platforms. Dell said Tuesday the Innovation Institute acts as an incubator for healthcare companies and evaluates, develops and commercialize medical tools and services through its Innovation Lab. The company will collaborate with the institute to […] More

  • Jacobs Lands Airside Engineering Support Contract with Australia’s Melbourne Airport
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    Jacobs Lands Airside Engineering Support Contract with Australia’s Melbourne Airport

    Jacobs Engineering Group has been awarded a contract by Australia’s Melbourne Airport to provide engineering support services for an airside project. Jacobs said Tuesday the contract covers master grading, civil infrastructure, drainage design and earthworks services for the Taxiway Zulu and Terminal 2 Aprons Project. The project calls for the development of a new apron […] More

  • CGI-Intrasoft Team Lands $215M European Parliament IT System Services Contract
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    CGI-Intrasoft Team Lands $215M European Parliament IT System Services Contract

    A consortium of CGI and Intrasoft International has secured a potential five-year, $215 million contract to develop, implement and maintain information systems for the European Parliament. CGI said Tuesday the framework agreement awarded by the parliament’s Directorate-General for Innovation and Technological Support has a base term of two years and three option years. ITEC works to provide […] More

  • Lockheed Rolls Out Tool for UAS Traffic Mgmt; Paul Engola Comments
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    Lockheed Rolls Out Tool for UAS Traffic Mgmt; Paul Engola Comments

    Lockheed Martin has introduced a traffic management platform designed to help operators of unmanned aerial systems share flight information with other pilots. Lockheed is working with NASA and other institutions to develop additional functions for the UTM system under the Space Act data sharing agreement, the company said Monday. “Our objective is an open, standards-based system […] More

  • SPA Lands Acquisition Oversight Support Contract With JIDA; Kirk Donald Comments
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    SPA Lands Acquisition Oversight Support Contract With JIDA; Kirk Donald Comments

    Systems Planning and Analysis has been awarded a potential three-year, $7.3 million contract to provide acquisition management support services for the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency. SPA said July 23 it will work to develop policies, procedures, systems and learning materials related to reporting, systemic analysis, program management and other aspects of acquisitions for JIDA’s Acquisition Policy […] More

  • USAF Awards $82M Propulsion R&D Contract to Engineering Research and Consulting
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    USAF Awards $82M Propulsion R&D Contract to Engineering Research and Consulting

    Engineering Research and Consulting has won a five-year, $82 million contract to carry out research and development efforts for the U.S. Air Force’s Propulsion Sciences III program. The cost-plus-fixed-fee contract was awarded through a competitive procurement process and covers support for the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Defense Department said Monday. The Alabama-based contractor will […] More