Jane Edwards

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is a staff writer at Executive Mosaic covering mergers and acquisitions, contract awards, contracting opportunities and executive moves in the government contracting space for GovCon Wire.

Former Mitre Exec William LaPlante Named Draper President, CEOExecutive Moves

Former Mitre Exec William LaPlante Named Draper President, CEO

William LaPlante, formerly a senior executive at Mitre, will assume the president and CEO roles at Charles Stark Draper Laboratory…
Protest of Pentagon’s JEDI Cloud Contract Award Decision Likely to Continue Into 2021Contract Awards

Protest of Pentagon’s JEDI Cloud Contract Award Decision Likely to Continue Into 2021

The Department of Defense reaffirmed its decision to award the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract to Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) in early September but…
Six Companies Join Quantum Economic Development Consortium’s Steering Panel; Michael Kratsios QuotedNews

Six Companies Join Quantum Economic Development Consortium’s Steering Panel; Michael Kratsios Quoted

Boeing (NYSE: BA), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Google, ColdQuanta, QC Ware and Zapata Computing signed participation agreements to join the steering…
T-Rex Solutions Buys Zot in Intell Community Services Expansion Push; Seth Moore QuotedM&A Activity

T-Rex Solutions Buys Zot in Intell Community Services Expansion Push; Seth Moore Quoted

T-Rex Solutions has acquired information technology engineering services firm Zot for an undisclosed sum as part of efforts to expand…
Jerry McGinn: Reshoring Critical US Industrial Capabilities Needs Little Help From AlliesGovCon Expert

Jerry McGinn: Reshoring Critical US Industrial Capabilities Needs Little Help From Allies

Jerry McGinn, executive director of the Center for Government Contracting at George Mason University’s School of Business and GovCon Expert for…
CACI Gets $450M DHS Desktop Support BPA; John Mengucci QuotedContract Awards

CACI Gets $450M DHS Desktop Support BPA; John Mengucci Quoted

CACI International (NYSE: CACI) has received a potential five-year, $450M blanket purchase agreement from the Department of Homeland Security for desktop support…
Accenture Federal Services Names Christopher Copeland as CTO, Kyle Michl as Chief Innovation OfficerExecutive Moves

Accenture Federal Services Names Christopher Copeland as CTO, Kyle Michl as Chief Innovation Officer

Accenture’s (NYSE: ACN) federal arm has appointed company veterans Christopher Copeland and Kyle Michl as chief technology officer and chief…
Okta’s Habib Hourani: TIC 3.0 Guidance, Adaptive Security Model Help Agencies Protect Cloud IT EnvironmentsNews

Okta’s Habib Hourani: TIC 3.0 Guidance, Adaptive Security Model Help Agencies Protect Cloud IT Environments

Habib Hourani, a solutions engineer at San Francisco-based identity management services provider Okta (Nasdaq: OKTA), said the U.S. government is…
Vectrus Wins $196M Navy Base Operations Support IDIQContract Awards

Vectrus Wins $196M Navy Base Operations Support IDIQ

Vectrus (NYSE: VEC) has won a potential five-year, $196.1M contract from the U.S. Navy to provide base operations services at Naval Station…
CenturyLink Rebrands as Lumen Technologies; Jeff Storey QuotedNews

CenturyLink Rebrands as Lumen Technologies; Jeff Storey Quoted

CenturyLink has changed its name to Lumen Technologies to reflect the company’s commitment to helping lead enterprises through the 4th…