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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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  • Carahsoft’s Tim Boltz: Higher Education Institutions Should Have Cloud Migration Strategy
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    Carahsoft’s Tim Boltz: Higher Education Institutions Should Have Cloud Migration Strategy

    Tim Boltz, education program executive at Carahsoft Technology, said higher education institutions looking to advance digital modernization should have a strategy in place to facilitate the migration to the cloud. “As teams weigh where cloud solutions will take them next, understanding and articulating the need to include data-intensive computing, security, reporting, and analysis is imperative. […] More

  • L3Harris-Air Tractor Team’s Sky Warden Aircraft Moves to Low-Rate Initial Production
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    L3Harris-Air Tractor Team’s Sky Warden Aircraft Moves to Low-Rate Initial Production

    A team composed of L3Harris Technologies and Air Tractor has transitioned to the low-rate initial production phase to build their single-engine light attack aircraft for U.S. Special Operations Command, FlightGlobal reported Saturday. In August 2022, SOCOM awarded the industry team a potential $3 billion contract to provide the AT-802U Sky Warden platform for the Armed […] More

  • Day & Zimmermann’s Doug Magee: People Key to Supporting National Security Mission
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    Day & Zimmermann’s Doug Magee: People Key to Supporting National Security Mission

    Doug Magee, president of government services group at Day & Zimmermann, emphasized the importance of people as a valuable resource in advancing and supporting the U.S. national security mission. In a blog post published Thursday, Magee mentioned the need to advance innovation by integrating emerging technologies and other tools that would enable employees to perform […] More

  • HP Federal’s Tommy Gardner on Multifactor Authentication
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    HP Federal’s Tommy Gardner on Multifactor Authentication

    Industry and government experts talked about the future of cybersecurity at a summit held in Tallahassee, Florida, and panelists highlighted multifactor authentication and zero trust during a discussion at the event, Government Technology reported Thursday. Tommy Gardner, chief technology officer of HP Federal, stressed the importance of implementing different forms of MFA. “The problem is […] More

  • IBM Seeks to Help Agencies Safeguard Data in Post-Quantum Era With Quantum-Safe Tech, Roadmap
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    IBM Seeks to Help Agencies Safeguard Data in Post-Quantum Era With Quantum-Safe Tech, Roadmap

    IBM has unveiled a set of capabilities designed to help government agencies, businesses and other organizations protect critical data as they transition to post-quantum cryptography. The IBM Quantum Safe technology is composed of three tools: IBM Quantum Safe Explorer, Quantum Safe Advisor and Quantum Safe Remediator, the company said Wednesday. The IBM Quantum Safe Explorer, […] More

  • State, Local Agencies Turn to Data Fabric to Link Disparate Info Sources; Denodo’s Bill Sullivan Quoted
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    State, Local Agencies Turn to Data Fabric to Link Disparate Info Sources; Denodo’s Bill Sullivan Quoted

    State and local government agencies looking to generate insights from large volumes of data and speed up the decision-making process are turning to an emerging data management design concept, called data fabric, to facilitate the retrieval, integration and sharing of information across disparate data sources, StateTech Magazine reported Wednesday. One of the two approaches to […] More

  • Anduril, Aalyria Partner to Deliver All-Domain C2 Capabilities to Government Customers
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    Anduril, Aalyria Partner to Deliver All-Domain C2 Capabilities to Government Customers

    Anduril Industries and Aalyria intend to advance command and control of national security capabilities across all domains by combining their two technologies under a teaming agreement. Anduril said Tuesday it will integrate its Lattice software with Aalyria’s Spacetime networking orchestration platform through the partnership. The Lattice open operating system works to create an operating view […] More

  • ITRC-LexisNexis Report: Identity Fraud Returned to Pre-Pandemic Levels for Most Agencies; Haywood Talcove Quoted
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    ITRC-LexisNexis Report: Identity Fraud Returned to Pre-Pandemic Levels for Most Agencies; Haywood Talcove Quoted

    A new report by the Identity Theft Resource Center and LexisNexis Risk Solutions has found that 63 percent of surveyed government officials said their agencies have gone back to pre-pandemic levels of identity-related benefit fraud. The IDentification in a Post-Pandemic World Report covered responses from 986 government executives, general consumers and self-identified identity crime victims […] More

  • SolarWinds Survey: Public Sector IT Leaders See Foreign Governments as Greatest Security Threat Source
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    SolarWinds Survey: Public Sector IT Leaders See Foreign Governments as Greatest Security Threat Source

    A new SolarWinds survey has found that 60 percent of public sector information technology decision-makers said they consider foreign governments as the top source of security threats to their organizations, while 58 percent and 52 percent of respondents cited untrained insiders and the general hacking community as primary threat sources, respectively. The software company said […] More

  • Maxar Offers New Satellite Bus to L3Harris, Other Defense Contractors; Dan Jablonsky Quoted
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    Maxar Offers New Satellite Bus to L3Harris, Other Defense Contractors; Dan Jablonsky Quoted

    Maxar Technologies is scheduled to hand over to L3Harris Technologies the first of 16 satellite buses meant for a Space Development Agency constellation in low-Earth orbit in early 2024, SpaceNews reported Monday. L3Harris selected the Westminster, Colorado-based space technology company to provide the Maxar 300 satellite bus for SDA’s Tracking Layer.  In July 2022, SDA […] More

  • UberEther Launches Access Management Tool for Government Clients
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    UberEther Launches Access Management Tool for Government Clients

    UberEther has unveiled an identity, credential and access management platform meant to help government agencies and suppliers update their legacy identity systems. IAM Advantage is a preconfigured platform that can be fielded in the cloud or hybrid platforms, on-premises or in disconnected environments and integrates technologies from several identity providers, including Radiant Logic, SailPoint, Ping […] More