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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 Robert Moore: Agencies Eye Unified Endpoint Management, Zero Trust to Combat Cyberthreats
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    Carahsoft’s Robert Moore: Agencies Eye Unified Endpoint Management, Zero Trust to Combat Cyberthreats

    Robert Moore, state and local government market executive at Carahsoft Technology, highlighted key takeaways from a digital transformation roadshow held in Tallahassee, Florida, and one of the discussions at the event centered on the efforts of federal, state and local government agencies to counter cyberthreats. Moore wrote in a blog post published Monday that agencies […] More

  • Carahsoft’s Michael McCalip: Tech Industry, Agencies Could Help USMC Improve Cybersecurity, Meet Other Goals
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    Carahsoft’s Michael McCalip: Tech Industry, Agencies Could Help USMC Improve Cybersecurity, Meet Other Goals

    Michael McCalip, Navy relationship executive at Carahsoft Technology, said information technology professionals from government and industry could support the U.S. Marine Corps as the service branch moves to achieve its goals this year, such as improving cybersecurity, advancing expeditionary contracting and prepositioning and acquiring a minimum of 31 amphibious combat ships. “For example, transforming cybersecurity […] More

  • Northrop-Led Webb Telescope Industry Team Gets Collier Trophy; Kathy Warden Quoted
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    Northrop-Led Webb Telescope Industry Team Gets Collier Trophy; Kathy Warden Quoted

    A Northrop Grumman-led industry team has secured the National Aeronautic Association’s Robert J. Collier Trophy in recognition of its work on NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope. The company said Thursday it partnered with L3Harris Technologies, Ball Aerospace, Raytheon Technologies and NeXolve on the space deployable telescope, which launched in December 2021. Northrop led the design, […] More

  • Juvare Unveils Federal & Defense Business Unit
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    Juvare Unveils Federal & Defense Business Unit

    Juvare has launched a new business unit to advance the delivery of national security and crisis response software offerings to U.S. government customers. President Patrick Lane and Chief Operating Officer Patrick Macfarlane will oversee Juvare Federal & Defense, which will accelerate program delivery through its independent operating framework, the company said Wednesday. JFD offers a […] More

  • Ramaco Carbon, ORNL Eye Large-Scale Production of Key Electric Vehicle Battery Component
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    Ramaco Carbon, ORNL Eye Large-Scale Production of Key Electric Vehicle Battery Component

    Ramaco Carbon and the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory are partnering on a two-year project to develop a process to facilitate large-scale production of coal-derived graphite, a key component used in manufacturing batteries for electric vehicles. ORNL and Ramaco are jointly funding the project through a field work proposal for the Fossil Energy […] More

  • Lockheed Demos 5G Network-Enabled Analytics for Aircraft Maintenance
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    Lockheed Demos 5G Network-Enabled Analytics for Aircraft Maintenance

    Lockheed Martin used the Department of Defense’s 5G network to demonstrate the capability of its analytics tools to improve aircraft readiness by providing maintainers with real-time data to detect aircraft issues and speed up the decision-making process. Lockheed developed and demonstrated its applications before U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army officials as part of the […] More

  • Northrop Unveils Industry Team for Navy Airborne Communications Link Program Bid
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    Northrop Unveils Industry Team for Navy Airborne Communications Link Program Bid

    Northrop Grumman will work with Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works arm, Raytheon Technologies’ intelligence and space business, Long Wave and Crescent Systems as part of a team that will compete for a U.S. Navy program that seeks to replace the service’s fleet of E-6B Mercury aircraft. Henry Cyr, director of multidomain command and control capture programs […] More

  • Sierra Nevada Seeks to Help Defense Industry Counter Cyberthreats With Cloud-Based Offering; Elastic’s Chris Townsend Quoted
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    Sierra Nevada Seeks to Help Defense Industry Counter Cyberthreats With Cloud-Based Offering; Elastic’s Chris Townsend Quoted

    Sierra Nevada Corp. is offering a cloud-based managed security service meant to help defense industrial base customers protect their sensitive data, intellectual property and operational technology from cybersecurity threats. SNC said its Security Operations Center service offering is built on Microsoft’s Azure Government Cloud and uses the Elastic Security stack to safeguard OT systems, controlled […] More

  • SDA’s Initial 10 Tranche 0 Satellites Launch Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9; Derek Tournear Quoted
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    SDA’s Initial 10 Tranche 0 Satellites Launch Aboard SpaceX Falcon 9; Derek Tournear Quoted

    The first 10 satellites for the Tranche 0 Transport and Tracking Layer of the Space Development Agency’s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture launched Sunday aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The second batch of satellites for the Tranche 0 layer, which will demonstrate low-latency military communications to enable warfighters to […] More

  • Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary Achieves New Record Flight With Integrator UAS
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    Boeing’s Insitu Subsidiary Achieves New Record Flight With Integrator UAS

    Boeing subsidiary Insitu achieved a record duration flight of 25.5 hours with its 150-pound unmanned aircraft system on a multipayload mission. Insitu said Thursday the Integrator UAS enabled the customer to keep persistent eyes on a target without deploying two or more lower endurance platforms. “Customers can focus on the mission and have confidence to […] More

  • AWS Accelerator Program Seeks to Help Address Health Care Workforce Challenges; Dave Levy Quoted
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    AWS Accelerator Program Seeks to Help Address Health Care Workforce Challenges; Dave Levy Quoted

    Amazon Web Services is working to help health care organizations address workforce challenges through an accelerator program, Modern Healthcare reported Tuesday. AWS announced at a conference the selection of 23 startups for the program, which seeks to help business leaders improve their business model, cloud architecture and regulatory pathways over a five-week period. The company […] More