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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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  • ULA Launches Lockheed-Built GOES-S Weather Satellite for NOAA - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    ULA Launches Lockheed-Built GOES-S Weather Satellite for NOAA

    A weather satellite that Lockheed Martin built for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration took off Thursday aboard a United Launch Alliance-built Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-S system will be called GOES-17 once it reaches the geostationary orbit within two weeks and will undergo a checkout and validation phase […] More

  • Cubic-Thales Team to Bid for UK Joint Fires Synthetic Training Project; Dave Buss Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Cubic-Thales Team to Bid for UK Joint Fires Synthetic Training Project; Dave Buss Comments

    Cubic’s global defense business and Thales have partnered to compete for the U.K. defense ministry’s Joint Fires Synthetic Training project. Cubic said Thursday the JFST project is part of the Training and Simulation Systems Program and seeks to provide joint fires systems to support the training of the British armed forces across ground, aerial and littoral […] More

  • Industry Urges DHS to Standardize Contractor Vetting Process - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Industry Urges DHS to Standardize Contractor Vetting Process

    Some industry representatives have called on Congress to help the Department of Homeland Security standardize and streamline the vetting and security clearance process for government contracting personnel, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Industry stakeholders told lawmakers Tuesday at a House Homeland Security’s oversight and management efficiency subpanel hearing that DHS leaders should advance the implementation […] More

  • Navy Integrates New Targeting Systems, Radars Into Block III Super Hornet Fighter Jets - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Navy Integrates New Targeting Systems, Radars Into Block III Super Hornet Fighter Jets

    The U.S. Navy has begun to incorporate new technology platforms into the Block III version of the Boeing-built F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet in an effort to address emerging threats, the National Interest reported Wednesday. Some of the technologies that will be installed on the Block III Super Hornet aircraft include the Advanced Targeting Forward Looking […] More

  • Gen. John Hyten: Stratcom Eyes Low-Yield, Nuclear Cruise Missile Tech for Zumwalt-Class Destroyers - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gen. John Hyten: Stratcom Eyes Low-Yield, Nuclear Cruise Missile Tech for Zumwalt-Class Destroyers

    Air Force Gen. John Hyten, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, has said Stratcom considers equipping the U.S. Navy’s Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyers (DDG-1000) with low-yield, sea-launched cruise missiles, Military.com reported Monday. Hyten’s statement came after the Defense Department issued the Nuclear Posture Review that aims to advance the use of low-yield nuclear weapons such as SLCMs […] More

  • Gus Hunt: Accenture’s Federal Arm to Open Cyber Support Center in San Antonio, TX - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Gus Hunt: Accenture’s Federal Arm to Open Cyber Support Center in San Antonio, TX

    Gus Hunt, cybersecurity strategy lead at Accenture’s federal services business, has said the company plans to establish a security operations center in San Antonio, Texas, that would provide cybersecurity support to federal agencies that lack budget to hire cyber professionals, the San Antonio Express-News reported Monday. “It allows us to deliver managed, shared services to […] More

  • Report: Stratolaunch Aircraft Completes Land Control Test - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Stratolaunch Aircraft Completes Land Control Test

    Stratolaunch Systems has completed a ground-based control test of its aircraft designed to facilitate air launches of rockets in order to bring satellites into low-Earth orbit, ValueWalk reported Wednesday. Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder who established Stratolaunch in 2011, said in a Twitter post that the Seattle, Washington-based company’s aircraft recorded 46 miles per hour in top […] More

  • Radiant Solutions to Back NGA-DIUx Machine Learning Tech Challenge: Tony Frazier Comments - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Radiant Solutions to Back NGA-DIUx Machine Learning Tech Challenge: Tony Frazier Comments

    Maxar Technologies’ Radiant Solutions business has received a contract from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to help expedite the development of machine learning algorithms designed to gather data from satellite images. Radiant Solutions said Tuesday it will provide NGA access to high-resolution satellite images of at least 1 million labeled objects to help the agency launch […] More

  • Report: Navy, USMC Identify $1.7B in Unfunded Priorities - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Report: Navy, USMC Identify $1.7B in Unfunded Priorities

    The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Marine Corps have submitted to Congress their fiscal 2019 “unfunded priority lists” that requested $1.7 billion in total funds to support projects that were not included in the official budget request, USNI News reported Tuesday. The Navy seeks $1.5 billion for its budget wish list that includes the procurement […] More

  • DoD, ODNI Respectively Seek $21B, $60B in Fiscal 2019 Intell Program Funds - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    DoD, ODNI Respectively Seek $21B, $60B in Fiscal 2019 Intell Program Funds

    The Defense Department and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence have publicly released their fiscal 2019 budget requests for their respective intelligence initiatives. DoD said Tuesday it has requested a top-line budget of $21.2 billion to support its Military Intelligence Program. The budget both includes the MIP base budget and allocation for overseas contingency operations, the Pentagon […] More

  • OMB Asks Agencies to Submit Project Proposals for Tech Modernization Fund Under MGT Act - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    OMB Asks Agencies to Submit Project Proposals for Tech Modernization Fund Under MGT Act

    The Office of Management and Budget has issued a memorandum that outlines measures and goals federal agencies should implement to comply with the Modernizing Government Technology Act that aims to facilitate information technology system upgrades, Nextgov reported Tuesday. OMB Director Mick Mulvaney said in the Tuesday memo agencies seeking to receive funds through the potential […] More

  • Boeing, Northrop Begin Ground-Based ICBM Design Concept Development - top government contractors - best government contracting event
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    Boeing, Northrop Begin Ground-Based ICBM Design Concept Development

    Boeing and Northrop Grumman have started to develop designs of the Ground-Based Strategic Deterrent intercontinental ballistic missile for the U.S. Air Force, SpaceNews reported Tuesday. The service branch awarded in August 2017 approximately $678 million in combined contracts to Boeing and Northrop to perform technology maturation and risk reduction work on the GBSD program. GBSD […] More