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is a writer of news summaries about executive-level business activity in the government contracting sector. Her reports for ExecutiveBiz are focused on trends and events that drive the GovCon industry to include commercial technologies that private companies are developing for federal government use. She contributes news content to ExecutiveBiz’s sister sites GovCon Wire and ExecutiveGov.
A Dynetics subsidiary has received a 12-month, $59.3 million contract extension to provide information technology services to NASA‘s Marshall Space Flight Center. The extension period will run from Feb. 1 to Jan. 31, 2016, andĂ‚Â covers managerial and technical support at the space research facility, NASA said Friday. Dynetics Technical Services will continue to work with […] More
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman a $21.6 million contract to provide two additional modular mission packages for the military branch’s Littoral Combat Ship. Northrop said Monday the modules will be built to support LCS’ surface warfare and mine countermeasure operations. “As the mission package integrator for LCS we are committed to meeting the […] More
Amazon Web Services has added the AWS Trusted Advisor monitoring and alerting tool to the company’s cloud platform offering for U.S. government agencies. The tool will work to help GovCloud (US) region users to perform up to 19 checks and is designed to offer security, cost and system management suggestions, AWS said Thursday. All GovCloud […] More
Worldwide revenue from information technology-as-a-service platforms is forecast to grow 31 percent annually from 2014 to 2019, according to a new Research and Markets report. The market analystĂ‚Â said Thursday a growing demand for ITaaS offerings across the government sector and for low-cost enterprise infrastructure will help spur market growth. Vendors use the ITaaS technology delivery […] More
A TechNavio report predicts a 5.7 percent average growth for the worldwide health information technology market on a year-over-year basis through 2018. The research firm identified CareFusion, Cerner, Dell, McKesson and Philips Healthcare as among the key vendors in the sector, Reports and Intelligence said Thursday. The report indicates that government and private organizations have […] More
Prakash Panjwani, president and CEO of SafeNet, believes organizations must go beyond encryption to protect their most sensitive data against breach, GovInfoSecurity reported Thursday. Mathew Schwartz writes Panjwani said it is imperative that companies have strategies to mitigate the potential risks of computer hacking and has advised enterprise clients to prioritize security of their most […] More
Ball Aerospace & Technologies has integrated two of five scientific payloads into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration‘s Joint Polar Satellite System. The company installed its Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite-Nadir instrument and the Northrop Grumman-built Clouds and Earth’s Radiant Energy System on the JPSS-1 spacecraft bus, Ball Aerospace said Thursday. The environmental satellite is […] More
International Data Corp. has published a report that suggests a framework for information technology companies and professionals to drive service innovation with “third platform” computing technologies. IDC predicts third platform IT-as-a-service will be key for approximately 65 percent of industry’s global competitive strategies by 2016, the market intelligence firm said Wednesday. The platform is becoming […] More
FireEye has integrated two of its analytics platforms into a Viewfinity endpoint protection technology as the companies aim to help enterprise clients address threats faster. The merged product is designed to correlate application and endpoint access data collected by Viewfinity’s technology with enterprise network threat information from FireEye’s cloud-based Threat Analytics Platform and AX forensic […] More
Iridium Communications and software firm Appareo Systems have signed a partnership agreement to develop telematics and data connectivity platforms for agricultural and aviation applications. Appareo wants to leverage Iridium’s satellite network to help customers stay connected in areas not covered by conventional terrestrial networks, Iridium said Wednesday. Iridium is scheduled to launch its NEXT satellite […] More
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and Northrop Grumman have partnered to conduct a five-day command cyber readiness inspection at the agency’s Missile Defense Integration and Operations Center in Colorado. Northrop said Tuesday the evaluation sought to determine if computer networks at the site comply with the Defense Department‘s information assurance and network security and configuration […] More
Global spending on maintenance, repair and overhaul services for military ground vehicles is projected to show steady growth over the next 10 years, according to a new Visiongain report. Visiongain said Monday it forecasts that investments in military land vehicle MRO programs worldwide would reach $7.4 billion this year. The research firm also predicts military […] More
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