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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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  • Technical Computing Company JuliaHub Secures AEI HorizonX Investment - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Technical Computing Company JuliaHub Secures AEI HorizonX Investment

    JuliaHub, a technical computing and scientific machine learning company, has received a strategic investment worth $13 million from AEI HorizonX, a venture capital platform formed by AE Industrial Partners and Boeing. Cambridge, Massachusetts-based JuliaHub was founded by the developers of an open-source programming language, called Julia, that enables engineers, researchers and developers to design, build […] More

  • Defense Tech Companies, Investors Urge DOD to Advance Acquisition Reform, Address Barriers to Innovation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Defense Tech Companies, Investors Urge DOD to Advance Acquisition Reform, Address Barriers to Innovation

    A group of 12 defense technology companies and venture capital firms provided the Department of Defense with four recommendations to reform acquisition, make revisions to specific planning, programming, budgeting and execution structures and address challenges to innovation. In a Friday letter to Defense Secretary and 2023 Wash100 awardee Lloyd Austin, the companies said they endorse […] More

  • SandboxAQ Secures DISA Quantum-Resistant Cryptography Prototype OTA; Jen Sovada Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    SandboxAQ Secures DISA Quantum-Resistant Cryptography Prototype OTA; Jen Sovada Quoted

    SandboxAQ will implement its cryptographic management platform under a prototype other transaction authority agreement with the Defense Information Systems Agency. The company said Tuesday it will work with Microsoft and Deloitte & Touche as it delivers its SandboxAQ Security Suite to DISA through the prototype OTA. The SandboxAQ Security Suite works to provide agile cryptography […] More

  • Carahsoft's Alex Whitworth: CISA Supports Critical Infrastructure Organizations With Cybersecurity Performance Goals - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: CISA Supports Critical Infrastructure Organizations With Cybersecurity Performance Goals

    Alex Whitworth, cybersecurity solutions vertical executive at Carahsoft Technology, said the cross-sector cybersecurity performance goals released by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency provide information technology and operational technology practices that could help organizations improve the cyber resilience of critical infrastructure. These practices are grouped into eight categories, including account security, data security, governance and […] More

  • GSA Issues RFI for CISA EINSTEIN System Modernization Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    GSA Issues RFI for CISA EINSTEIN System Modernization Effort

    The General Services Administration is soliciting technical feedback and insights from industry on technologies and techniques that could be used to detect and respond to cyberthreats within federal agency networks. GSA is issuing the follow-up request for information on behalf of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as the latter intends to modernize the EINSTEIN […] More

  • Intel-HPE-DOE Team Completes Compute Blade Installation Work on Aurora Supercomputer - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel-HPE-DOE Team Completes Compute Blade Installation Work on Aurora Supercomputer

    Intel, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and the Department of Energy have finished the installation of 10,624 compute blades into the Aurora exascale supercomputer at DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. Aurora uses the HPE Slingshot high-performance fabric and comes with 1,024 storage nodes designed to provide 220 petabytes of capacity, Intel said Thursday. The supercomputer is […] More

  • Bechtel Concludes Chemical Weapons Destruction Operations in Colorado; Michael Costas Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Bechtel Concludes Chemical Weapons Destruction Operations in Colorado; Michael Costas Quoted

    Bechtel has completed the safe destruction of mustard agent-filled munitions at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado. The Bechtel Pueblo Team destroyed over 780,000 projectiles and mortar rounds under three campaigns involving three various sizes of chemical weapons and reported the milestone to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the company […] More

  • Hitachi Vantara Federal's Gary Hix: Agencies Should Advance Sustainability as They Approach IT Modernization - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Hitachi Vantara Federal’s Gary Hix: Agencies Should Advance Sustainability as They Approach IT Modernization

    Gary Hix, chief technology officer of Hitachi Vantara Federal, said federal agencies should consider the business case for advancing sustainability to help address the climate crisis as they pursue information technology modernization efforts. “In a fortuitous twist, sustainability and digital transformation go together as transformation drives sustainability. Moving to newer technologies will reduce emissions, because […] More

  • Siemens Government Technologies' Michael House: Smart Building Tech Could Help Agencies Increase Energy Resilience - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Siemens Government Technologies’ Michael House: Smart Building Tech Could Help Agencies Increase Energy Resilience

    Michael House, vice president of infrastructure and energy solutions at Siemens Government Technologies, said federal agencies could help address climate change and improve energy resilience and sustainability by adopting smart building technologies. In a LinkedIn article published Monday, House discussed how smart lighting, HVAC controls, storage systems such as mobile microgrids and solar panels and […] More

  • CGI Federal's Sid Getz: Financial Management System Modernization Helps VA Advance Automation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    CGI Federal’s Sid Getz: Financial Management System Modernization Helps VA Advance Automation

    Sid Getz, senior vice president for consulting services at CGI Federal, said the modernization of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ financial management system through the Financial Management Business Transformation program has helped VA improve the decision-making process, automate processes, maintain clean audits and comply with federal accounting regulations. Getz appeared on Tuesday before lawmakers during […] More

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    LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ Haywood Talcove: Agencies Should Recognize AI-Related Risk to Government Programs

    Haywood Talcove, CEO of the government group at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, said criminals can take advantage of artificial intelligence algorithms, particularly generative AI, to perform fraud across several sectors and that government agencies should acknowledge the threat posed by AI tools to their organizations and entitlement programs. Talcove wrote in an opinion piece published Monday […] More

  • RTX to Shift JADC2 Work to Collins Aerospace Under Realignment Effort - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    RTX to Shift JADC2 Work to Collins Aerospace Under Realignment Effort

    Raytheon Technologies, now known as RTX following a rebranding effort, will move about 4,700 positions and work related to Joint All-Domain Command and Control to Collins Aerospace, effective July 1, as part of a business realignment initiative, C4ISRNET reported Monday. In January, the defense and aerospace contractor announced plans to restructure its four businesses into […] More