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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 Alex Whitworth: DFARS, CMMC 2.0 Have Complementary Roles in Protecting Data, National Security - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s Alex Whitworth: DFARS, CMMC 2.0 Have Complementary Roles in Protecting Data, National Security

    Alex Whitworth, director of sales at Carahsoft Technology, said that although the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement and the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program have differences when it comes to their compliance assessment, both standards complement each other in safeguarding data and national security and advancing the interests of defense contractors. He wrote in a […] More

  • Marc Boysworth Named Aeyon Senior Principal Data Scientist - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Marc Boysworth Named Aeyon Senior Principal Data Scientist

    Data scientist Marc Boysworth has joined government services provider Aeyon as senior principal data scientist. He brings over two decades of expertise in data science and analytics as he leads the Aeyon Center of Excellence and helps improve ACE’s automation, data culture, technical infrastructure, advanced analytics, data governance, knowledge management and data visualization offerings, the […] More

  • Jacobs, Palantir Build Analytics Tool for Waste, Wastewater Treatment Facilities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jacobs, Palantir Build Analytics Tool for Waste, Wastewater Treatment Facilities

    Jacobs and Palantir Technologies have developed and piloted a data analytics platform designed to gather and analyze data from water and wastewater treatment plants to help operators manage operations and maintenance of such facilities. The two companies used process optimization platforms and machine learning modules to build the analytics tool in the Palantir Foundry operating […] More

  • Mitre Engenuity Unveils Results of ATT&CK Evaluations of 16 Cybersecurity Vendors - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Mitre Engenuity Unveils Results of ATT&CK Evaluations of 16 Cybersecurity Vendors

    Mitre Engenuity has released the results of its assessment of 16 security service providers and their capabilities to analyze the behavior of a cyberthreat actor as part of the ATT&CK Evaluations program. The Evals program’s purple team assessed the companies using the Mitre ATT&CK knowledge base of cyber adversary behavior to emulate the techniques and […] More

  • NetImpact Gets Microsoft Preferred Solution Badge for Cybersecurity Offering; PV Puvvada Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    NetImpact Gets Microsoft Preferred Solution Badge for Cybersecurity Offering; PV Puvvada Quoted

    NetImpact Strategies has received the Preferred Solution badge from Microsoft for its commercial-off-the-shelf software designed to help organizations automate the implementation of information security policies and manage their security posture. NetImpact said Tuesday its DX360 Security Accreditation, Remediation, Management of Operations and Risk in Microsoft AppSource is a cybersecurity platform that could help organizations manage […] More

  • Northrop Conducts Initial Flight Tests of Integrated Battle Command System - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Northrop Conducts Initial Flight Tests of Integrated Battle Command System

    Northrop Grumman completed a series of operational test flights of the Integrated Battle Command System, which the company built for the U.S. Army, as part of the initial operational test and evaluation phase. The IOT&E test flights kicked off in January and ran for 10 months at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, Northrop […] More

  • General Atomics Tests Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Tech for DARPA's DRACO Program - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    General Atomics Tests Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Tech for DARPA’s DRACO Program

    General Atomics completed a baseline design of a nuclear thermal propulsion reactor and engine and tested the components of the reactor as part of the initial phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations program. The company said Monday it assessed the high-temperature fuel elements of the NTP reactor […] More

  • LMI Unveils Supply Chain Risk Management Tool; Patrick Mahoney Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    LMI Unveils Supply Chain Risk Management Tool; Patrick Mahoney Quoted

    LMI has launched a platform designed to help program managers and analysts gain insights into risks and opportunities in their supply chains and accelerate the decision-making process to mitigate risks posed by foreign ownership, transportation and other supply chain problems. LogSmart Supply uses machine learning and simulation engines to enable managers to run custom risk […] More

  • Sophos' Rob Lalumondier on Government Cybersecurity Policies, Employee Productivity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Sophos’ Rob Lalumondier on Government Cybersecurity Policies, Employee Productivity

    Rob Lalumondier, vice president of federal at Sophos, shared his thoughts on President Joe Biden’s cybersecurity executive order and how the policy advances the adoption of technologies including multifactor authentication and zero trust infrastructure at agencies. “In addition, we’re also seeing the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law that has been widely discussed and the much needed billion […] More

  • Kratos, Air Force Conduct XQ-58A Valkyrie Block 2 Flight Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Kratos, Air Force Conduct XQ-58A Valkyrie Block 2 Flight Test

    Kratos Defense & Security Solutions and the U.S. Air Force performed a test flight of the XQ-58A Valkyrie unmanned combat aerial vehicle at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona as part of the Block 2 Valkyrie Maturation Program. Kratos and the Air Force Research Laboratory demonstrated the aircraft’s encrypted communications with redundant radios for operational and […] More

  • Inmarsat Government Picks Rocket Lab for L-Band Radio Development; Peter Beck Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Inmarsat Government Picks Rocket Lab for L-Band Radio Development; Peter Beck Quoted

    Rocket Lab will develop and produce an L-band radio for the InCommand telemetry, command and control service of Inmarsat’s U.S. government arm in support of a NASA project that seeks to advance the development of commercial near-Earth satellite communications services. Rocket Lab said Thursday it will link its Frontier-L radio to Inmarsat’s ELERA L-band network […] More

  • Jeremy Banik: NRO Eyes RFP Release for Hyperspectral Satellite Data - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jeremy Banik: NRO Eyes RFP Release for Hyperspectral Satellite Data

    Jeremy Banik, deputy director of the commercial systems program office at the National Reconnaissance Office, said NRO is close to completing a solicitation to procure commercial hyperspectral satellite data and expects to issue the request for proposals before the end of 2022, Via Satellite reported Thursday. “I’m looking forward to exploring [hyperspectral], this emerging phenomenology […] More