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.

General Dynamics’ Knifefish UUV Program Gets Milestone C ApprovalContract Awards

General Dynamics’ Knifefish UUV Program Gets Milestone C Approval

An unmanned undersea vehicle General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) built to support the U.S. Navy’s mine countermeasure missions has received Milestone…
Ellen Lord: DoD Sees ‘No Major Concerns’ With Proposed Raytheon-UTC MergerM&A Activity

Ellen Lord: DoD Sees ‘No Major Concerns’ With Proposed Raytheon-UTC Merger

Ellen Lord, defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment and a 2019 Wash100 winner, said the Department of Defense sees “no…
Corelight’s Brian Dye: Data-Driven Approach, Open Source Tools Key to Building Defensive Cyber ProgramNews

Corelight’s Brian Dye: Data-Driven Approach, Open Source Tools Key to Building Defensive Cyber Program

Brian Dye, chief product officer at cybersecurity firm Corelight, has said agencies should implement data-driven security approach and open source-based…
Boeing-Built X-37B Space Plane Breaks Program Mark of 717 DaysNews

Boeing-Built X-37B Space Plane Breaks Program Mark of 717 Days

A Boeing-built (NYSE: BA) space plane has recorded nearly 719 days in orbit since the U.S. Air Force launched the unmanned spacecraft…
CBP Moves Customs Duties Collection Processing Tech to IBM Cloud; Sam Gordy QuotedNews

CBP Moves Customs Duties Collection Processing Tech to IBM Cloud; Sam Gordy Quoted

The Customs and Border Protection migrated its Automated Commercial System’s collections processing functions to IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) SmartCloud for Government…
General Dynamics NASSCO Gets $1.63B Navy Expeditionary Sea Base Contract ModificationContract Awards

General Dynamics NASSCO Gets $1.63B Navy Expeditionary Sea Base Contract Modification

A General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) NASSCO subsidiary has secured a potential $1.63B contract modification to build and design the sixth…
Stephen Prosser Added to Deep Water Point’s Intell Community TeamExecutive Moves

Stephen Prosser Added to Deep Water Point’s Intell Community Team

Stephen Prosser, a veteran intelligence community leader, has joined the IC team of Annapolis, Md.-based federal management consulting firm Deep…
Red Hat’s David Egts on Four Best Practices to Advance Federal IT ModernizationNews

Red Hat’s David Egts on Four Best Practices to Advance Federal IT Modernization

David Egts, chief technologist for North America public sector at Red Hat, wrote in an FCW commentary piece published Thursday…
HPE, NASA Develop ‘Aitken’ Supercomputer to Support Manned Lunar MissionsNews

HPE, NASA Develop ‘Aitken’ Supercomputer to Support Manned Lunar Missions

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (NYSE: HPE) has developed a supercomputer named after astronomer Robert Grant Aitken designed to help NASA’s Ames Research…
VMware Strikes $2.7B in Deals for Pivotal, Carbon Black; Pat Gelsinger QuotedM&A Activity

VMware Strikes $2.7B in Deals for Pivotal, Carbon Black; Pat Gelsinger Quoted

VMware (NYSE: VMW) has agreed to acquire Pivotal Software (NYSE: PVTL) for approximately $2.7B and cybersecurity firm Carbon Black (Nasdaq: CBLK)…