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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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  • Caveonix's Kaus Phaltanker: Social Media Companies Should Advance Data Privacy by Empowering Users - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Caveonix’s Kaus Phaltanker: Social Media Companies Should Advance Data Privacy by Empowering Users

    Kaus Phaltankar, co-founder and CEO of Caveonix, said the lack of sensitivity towards data privacy and desensitization to the exploitation of personal data are some of the reasons why many consumers have become indifferent to the importance of safeguarding personal data.  Phaltankar wrote in an article published Friday on Intelligent CISO that social media companies […] More

  • Leidos Subsidiary Conducts Inaugural Test Launch of Hypersonic Test Bed; Tom Bell Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Leidos Subsidiary Conducts Inaugural Test Launch of Hypersonic Test Bed; Tom Bell Quoted

    Leidos subsidiary Dynetics completed on Saturday its first test launch of a hypersonic test bed from Rocket Lab‘s launch complex at a spaceport within NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. The inaugural launch was conducted as part of the Multi-Service Advanced Capability Hypersonic Test Bed program awarded by Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane under the […] More

  • Intel Launches Quantum Silicon Chip 'Tunnel Falls' - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Intel Launches Quantum Silicon Chip ‘Tunnel Falls’

    Intel has unveiled a new silicon chip designed to support quantum computing research efforts. Tunnel Falls is a 12-qubit device fabricated on 300-millimeter wafers and leverages Intel’s gate and contact processing methods and extreme ultraviolet lithography, the company said Thursday. The company also partnered with the Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the University of Maryland, […] More

  • Federal Agencies, Companies Compromised in Data Breach Linked to Ransomware Group 'Clop'; Jen Easterly, Robert Carey Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Federal Agencies, Companies Compromised in Data Breach Linked to Ransomware Group ‘Clop’; Jen Easterly, Robert Carey Quoted

    A Russian ransomware group called Clop gained access to data of the Department of Energy and other federal agencies, corporations and universities by exploiting a vulnerability in file transfer software MOVEit, The New York Times reported Thursday. Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, described the cyberattack as “opportunistic” and noted that […] More

  • IBM Study Advances Utility-Scale Quantum Computing With Error Mitigation - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    IBM Study Advances Utility-Scale Quantum Computing With Error Mitigation

    A team of researchers at IBM demonstrated the capability of a quantum computer to generate accurate results at a scale of more than 100 quantum bits using novel error mitigation techniques. IBM said Wednesday the error mitigation techniques were developed to address the noise or disturbances that cause errors in the computations of quantum computers. […] More

  • Paperless Innovations' Actus Platform Added to StateRAMP Authorized Product List; Mike Tocci Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paperless Innovations’ Actus Platform Added to StateRAMP Authorized Product List; Mike Tocci Quoted

    The State Risk and Authorization Management Program has added Paperless Innovations’ cloud-based procurement management platform Actus to the authorized product list after the offering passed the audit by third-party assessment organization Earthling Security and received authorization from the StateRAMP program management office. Earthling Security said Wednesday it assessed the Actus platform in Amazon Web Services […] More

  • Flashpoint National Security Solutions Forms Public Sector Advisory Board - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Flashpoint National Security Solutions Forms Public Sector Advisory Board

    Flashpoint’s government arm has named four national security leaders to its newly created advisory board tasked with providing strategic guidance, industry insights and perspectives to help expand its presence in the public sector and support government missions. Brian Brown, president of Flashpoint National Security Solutions, said in a statement published Tuesday the expertise and guidance […] More

  • HII to Provide Training Systems Sustainment Support Under $32.5B Air Force TSA IV Contract; Andy Green Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    HII to Provide Training Systems Sustainment Support Under $32.5B Air Force TSA IV Contract; Andy Green Quoted

    HII will provide design, analysis, development, production, installation, database generation, testing and sustainment support for training platforms under the fourth iteration of the Training Systems Acquisition contract with the U.S. Air Force. HII was one of the 37 companies that won spots on the potential 10-year, $32.5 billion TSA IV indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract awarded by the […] More

  • Boeing's Proposed Demonstrator Aircraft for NASA Project Designated as X-66A - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing’s Proposed Demonstrator Aircraft for NASA Project Designated as X-66A

    The U.S. Air Force has designated the aircraft that Boeing is building under NASA’s Sustainable Flight Demonstrator project as the X-66A. X-66A is an X-plane meant to help the U.S. achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 as stated in the White House’s Aviation Climate Action Plan, the space agency said Monday. An industry […] More

  • Google Cloud Looks to Automate Security Assessments Through OSCAL Adoption - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Google Cloud Looks to Automate Security Assessments Through OSCAL Adoption

    Google Cloud has submitted its security package for Department of Defense Impact Level 5 in a machine-readable format, called Open Security Control Assessment Language, via the government’s web-based application eMass. OSCAL represents security control assessments developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology and is meant to automate security assessments and facilitate the sharing […] More

  • Stacie Ohler Named Strategic Business Development Senior Director at Ultra I&C - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Stacie Ohler Named Strategic Business Development Senior Director at Ultra I&C

    Stacie Ohler, a defense industry veteran, has joined Ultra Intelligence & Communications as senior director of strategic business development, she announced in a LinkedIn post. She brings to the role over 15 years of defense and national security experience in program management, business development, research and development, acquisitions, operational planning, wargaming, campaign design and intelligence. […] More