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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NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Inches Closer to Final Assembly; Mark Kirasich Quoted
NASA engineers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida are expected in the coming weeks to integrate the crew module with the service module for the agency’s Orion spacecraft in preparation for the vehicle’s unmanned test flight mission to the lunar orbit, Artemis 1, in 2020, Spaceflight Now reported Monday.
T-Rex CEO Seth Moore on Federal IT Modernization, Cloud Migration
Seth Moore, president and CEO of government information technology services contractor T-Rex Solutions, told CIO Review in an interview that identifying how to fund IT modernization efforts is one of the challenges facing government agencies.
Exyn Raises $16M in Funding Round to Advance Autonomous Robot Tech Development
Autonomous robot systems developer Exyn Technologies has secured $16M in a round of Series A financing led by Centricus and backed by In-Q-Tel, Yamaha Motors Ventures, Corecam Family Office, IP Group and Red and Blue Ventures.
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Sheila Sorrells Named Federal Business Dev’t Director at Search Firm Elastic
Sheila Sorrells, a more than 20-year public sector market veteran, has joined search company Elastic as director of federal business development, G2Xchange ETC reported Friday.
AppDynamics’ Sami Begg Suggests Six Measures to Facilitate Federal Cloud Migration
Sami Begg, sales engineering manager for U.S. federal at Cisco’s AppDynamics subsidiary, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on FCW that there are six steps federal agencies can implement as they migrate their applications and workloads to the cloud and the first one is application mapping.
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John Zanni: Acronis SCS Advances ‘Edge’ Data Security in Support of US Public Sector
John Zanni, CEO of cybersecurity company Acronis SCS, told ChannelE2EÂ in an interview published Thursday that the company is focused on serving U.S. public sector agencies by providing them with edge-focused and future-proof backup and recovery platforms.
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HII Installs Upper Bow Section on JFK Aircraft Carrier
Huntington Ingalls Industries has completed the flight deck of the John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) aircraft carrier with the installation of the ship’s upper bow section at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division in Virginia.
Scaled Composites to Help Build Prototype of Skyworks’ VertiJet VTOL
Skyworks Global and Northrop Grumman’s Scaled Composites subsidiary have partnered to develop a prototype of a vertical takeoff and landing aircraft, Avionics International reported Wednesday.
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John Johnson: Defense Community Should Take ‘Tangible Action’ to Support Lower-Tier Suppliers
John Johnson, former vice president and general manager of the electronic systems sector at Northrop Grumman, wrote in a commentary published Wednesday on National Defense that the number of lower-tiered defense suppliers has been declining due to defense budget instability associated with the changing political climate.
Chris Bogdan: Booz Allen Targets Ground-Based Portion of Military Space Programs
Chris Bogdan, a senior vice president at Booz Allen Hamilton, told SpaceNews in an interview published Wednesday that the company is pursuing the ground-based area of military space systems and sees growth opportunities in satellite ground control stations, cybersecurity and data analytics, among other areas.