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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.
Bill Rowan, vice president of public sector at Splunk and a three-time Wash100 awardee, said Department of Defense customers have completed fielding the company’s cloud service offering to handle sensitive data at Impact Level 5. The company secured the Defense Security Information Systems Agency’s IL5 provisional authorization in 2021 that allows Splunk Cloud Platform to […] More
Tidelift, which provides platforms meant to improve the resilience of open source software supply chain, expanded its Series C financing to $33.5 million after securing additional investments from AEI HorizonX, a venture capital group formed by AE Industrial Partners and Boeing, and Cisco Investments. Tidelift said it will use the additional funding to expand its […] More
Kate Johnson, a veteran technology executive, will join Lumen Technologies to serve as president, CEO and a board member, effective Nov. 7. She will succeed the retiring Jeff Storey, who will stay with the company through the end of December to facilitate the transition process, Lumen said Tuesday. Johnson spent four years at Microsoft, where […] More
AT&T and Lockheed Martin conducted a test in August and achieved an 80 percent reduction in transfer time of health and usage data for analysis from a Sikorsky-built UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter to the 5G.MIL multisite pilot network using AT&T’s 5G private cellular network. The test demonstrated the interoperability between the 5G.MIL network and private […] More
Digital Intelligence Systems acquired MAKE, a Chicago-based professional and information technology recruiting firm, in August and DISYS CEO and Founder Mahfuz Ahmed said the McLean, Virginia-based staffing and services provider plans to purchase more companies to further expand its presence in the federal contracting market, the Washington Business Journal reported Thursday. “Being in the Washington […] More
SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 rocket to launch up to five of the six ground spare satellites of Iridium Communications in mid-2023 as part of the Iridium NEXT satellite constellation. The Iridium-9 mission will take off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and will serve as the company’s second rideshare with SpaceX, Iridium […] More
Boeing has awarded BAE Systems a contract to produce electronic warfare systems meant to provide F-15E and F-15EX Eagle fighter jets with self-defense capabilities and improved situational awareness. The low-rate initial production lot 2 contract calls for BAE to manufacture additional Eagle Passive Active Warning Survivability Systems for the fighter aircraft and brings the EPAWSS […] More
Booz Allen Hamilton and CyberSaint have teamed up to offer a software-as-a-service platform designed to help customers perform analytics to gain insights into their cybersecurity posture. Booz Allen will combine its risk model with CyberSaint’s information technology and cyber risk management software to come up with an offering that could help clients assess, quantify and […] More
Valiant Integrated Services will compete for task orders to provide modeling and simulation, exercises and assessment support for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency under a potential 10-year, $850 million contract vehicle. The company said Tuesday it will also carry out mission rehearsal, training and countermeasures assessments to address threats posed by weapons of mass destruction […] More
Albers Aerospace has been included in Inc. magazine’s annual list of “fastest-growing” U.S. companies. McKinney, Texas-based Albers said Friday it landed the top spot in the engineering category and placed No. 340 overall in the 2022 Inc. 5000 ranking. John Albers, president and CEO of Albers Aerospace, attributed the recognition to the company’s personnel and […] More
Northrop Grumman has received a potential one-year, $13 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to develop, implement, test and sustain the Radar Technology Insertion Program sensor. The company will also maintain and repair the Integrated Mission Management Computer for NATO under the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, the Department of Defense said Friday. The sole-source contract involves […] More
Boeing has launched two projects as part of the Hypersonics Challenge introduced by the Department of Defense and its Detroit-based manufacturing innovation institute LIFT. The company will work with Powdermet on the first project that seeks to demonstrate the production of metal matrix composites for hypersonic vehicle demonstrators, LIFT said Thursday. Boeing will team up […] More
