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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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  • Lumen Makes Workforce Development Commitments Through White House Infrastructure Talent Challenge - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Lumen Makes Workforce Development Commitments Through White House Infrastructure Talent Challenge

    Lumen Technologies joined other companies and organizations in signing the White House Infrastructure Talent Challenge and made pledges to build up the workforce through investments in workforce development and training programs. Lumen said Wednesday it will invest more than $80 million each year to hire nearly 1,000 employees to support the expansion of its fiber […] More

  • Paperless Innovations' Procurement Automation Offering Gets FedRAMP 'In Process’ Status; Mike Tocci Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Paperless Innovations’ Procurement Automation Offering Gets FedRAMP ‘In Process’ Status; Mike Tocci Quoted

    A procurement automation platform from Paperless Innovations has achieved “In Process” designation at the moderate impact level under the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program. The FedRAMP In Process status will enable Paperless to offer to federal, state and local government agencies its cloud-based Actus platform meant to help organizations automate management of procurement card […] More

  • Data Foundation-Guidehouse Survey: 63% of Federal CDOs Report Progress on Federal Data Strategy 2021 Action Plan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Data Foundation-Guidehouse Survey: 63% of Federal CDOs Report Progress on Federal Data Strategy 2021 Action Plan

    The federal government released a 2021 action plan outlining specific measures that agencies should take to advance the Federal Data Strategy and a survey by Data Foundation and Guidehouse showed that 63 percent of federal chief data officers said they began or completed implementing five of the six priority agency actions listed in the plan. […] More

  • USSF-44 National Security Mission Lifts Off Aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    USSF-44 National Security Mission Lifts Off Aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy

    A National Security Space Launch mission, called U.S. Space Force-44, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket lifted off Tuesday from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in Florida to deploy multiple satellites into geosynchronous Earth orbit. The Space Force said Tuesday the Space Launch Delta 45 unit supported the USSF-44 mission, which included the Long […] More

  • DISA Approves STIG for Rancher Government Solutions RKE2 Kubernetes Distribution Platform - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DISA Approves STIG for Rancher Government Solutions RKE2 Kubernetes Distribution Platform

    The Defense Information Systems Agency has cleared and issued the Security Technical Implementation Guide for Rancher Government Solutions’ RKE2 offering. RKE2, also known as RKE Government, is RGS’ next-generation Kubernetes distribution platform designed to adhere to security requirements of federal government agencies by regularly scanning components for common vulnerabilities and exposures, among other functions. DISA […] More

  • Duane Fotheringham: HII Aligns Underwater Drone Development With Navy’s Vision of Plug-and-Play Tech - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Duane Fotheringham: HII Aligns Underwater Drone Development With Navy’s Vision of Plug-and-Play Tech

    The U.S. Navy selected Remus 300 unmanned underwater vehicle for the Lionfish small UUV program in March and Duane Fotheringham, president of unmanned systems at HII Mission Technologies, said the company is adopting an open systems architecture in UUV and autonomy software development to align with the service’s vision of fielding technologies that can plug […] More

  • Carahsoft’s Brian O’Donnell on Helping Agencies Take Holistic Approach to Cybersecurity - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Carahsoft’s Brian O’Donnell on Helping Agencies Take Holistic Approach to Cybersecurity

    Brian O’Donnell, a vice president at Carahsoft Technology, talked about how the company helps government agency customers shift from endpoint detection and response toward a more holistic approach to cybersecurity. “With the executive orders that came out this year and the instruction towards zero trust, we’ve seen that some of those EDR implementations help to […] More

  • Agencies Turn to Plug-and-Play Tech; ServiceNow’s Jonathan Alboum Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Agencies Turn to Plug-and-Play Tech; ServiceNow’s Jonathan Alboum Quoted

    Some federal agencies including the U.S. Postal Service and the International Development Finance Corporation are now adopting preconfigured, plug-and-play technologies to speed up deployment and meet their operational requirements, FedTech Magazine reported Thursday. Jonathan Alboum, federal chief technology officer at ServiceNow, said the use of plug-and-play systems not only reflects the transition to a service- […] More

  • Jon Kirchner Named Chief Product Officer at BlackSky - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Jon Kirchner Named Chief Product Officer at BlackSky

    Jon Kirchner, a 30-year industry executive, has been named chief product officer at geospatial intelligence company BlackSky Technology. He will be part of BlackSky’s executive leadership team and oversee the delivery of intelligence and dynamic monitoring products and services to customers, the company said Wednesday. “Jon’s leadership will play a critical role as we advance […] More

  • DHS to Host Industry Day on Cloud Services Procurement Plan - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DHS to Host Industry Day on Cloud Services Procurement Plan

    The Department of Homeland Security will hold an industry day on Nov. 7 to discuss the Enterprise CLoud Infrastructure Provider Suite program currently in development. DHS will provide an overview of the award structure, projected spend and scope of the proposed ECLIPS program and host a question-and-answer session related to the effort, according to a […] More

  • Empower AI's Allen Badeau: Agencies Should Advance AI Integration to Accelerate Decision Making - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Empower AI’s Allen Badeau: Agencies Should Advance AI Integration to Accelerate Decision Making

    Allen Badeau, chief technology officer of Empower AI, said the Department of Defense and other government agencies should treat artificial intelligence as a core technology element and as part of their foundational information technology infrastructure as they look to advance the use of AI to speed up the decision-making process. Badeau wrote in an opinion […] More

  • iTech AG to Work With GovCIO Subsidiary on EPA IT Support Task Order; Randall Brown Quoted - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    iTech AG to Work With GovCIO Subsidiary on EPA IT Support Task Order; Randall Brown Quoted

    Technology consulting firm iTech AG announced that it will support GovCIO’s Salient CRGT subsidiary as the latter delivers information technology services to the Environmental Protection Agency as part of EPA’s Enterprise Support Services and Endpoint Technology program. In September, GovCIO announced the award of a potential seven-year, $524 million task order through the General Services […] More