Jerry Dotson, vice president of public sector at Avaya, wrote in a commentary published Thursday on Defense Systems that Department of Defense leaders should invest in the modernization of unified communications platforms to facilitate collaboration among remote employees, address voice and video challenges and maintain military readiness.
Read More »State Dept Aligns IT Governance; Stuart McGuigan Quoted
The Department of State announced that it will work to align its IT governance with bureau missions via the IT Executive Council (ITEC), FedScoop reported Friday. The ITEC was created in April 2019. “The goal of that is to bring together all of the collective requirements of the department, so we understand what needs to be done out there,” said the State Department CIO, Stuart McGuigan.
Read More »Senate Panel Asks Space Force to Assess Strategic Comms Gap Amid ESS Program Cuts; Lockheed’s Rick Ambrose Quoted
The Senate Appropriations Committee wants the U.S. Space Force to assess the potential gap in strategic communications as the service proposes budget cuts to the Evolved Strategic Satellite Communications program and plans to push back the planned replacement of Advanced Extremely High Frequency satellites with ESS satellites to 2032, Breaking Defense reported Wednesday.
Read More »NXTCOMM Creates Unit to Support Military Antenna Tech Requirements
NXT Communications has established a defense division focused on delivering antenna systems to provide special forces and other warfighters with satellite communications capability while on the move.
Read More »NASA Plans ICESat-2 Operations Support Extension Award to Northrop
NASA has indicated its intent to award Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) a sole-source contract to continue helping the agency operate and maintain an Earth observation satellite built to primarily measure ice sheets, according to a SAM notice posted Tuesday.
Read More »Mitre’s Tech Foundation Unveils Consortium to Promote 5G Collaboration, Innovation
Mitre’s tech foundation Engenuity has launched a consortium to bring together government, industry and academic institutions to advance 5G innovation. Founding members of the Open Generation Consortium are Ericsson, Nokia, Verizon (NYSE: VZ), Altiostar, FIRST iZ, HUSH Aerospace, Kittyhawk, CTIA - The Wireless Association, Northeastern University and Virginia Tech.
Read More »Gigamon’s Dennis Reilly: Pervasive Visibility Into All Data Could Help Agencies Implement Zero Trust
Dennis Reilly, vice president of federal at Gigamon, said agencies should have pervasive visibility into encrypted data and data in transit across cloud, on-premises data centers and virtual environments to better protect their information technology infrastructure from cyber adversaries.
Read More »DHS Seeks Feedback on Draft RFP for FirstSource III IT Contract
The Department of Homeland Security has asked industry to submit comments on a draft solicitation for the third iteration of the FirstSource contract for commercial information technology products and services and software platforms.
Read More »DoD Pegs Annual Defense Acquisition Program Cost at $2.02T
The Department of Defense issued Friday details on acquisition program cost changes for the December 2019 reporting period and said that its acquisition cost estimate for 86 programs covered by Selected Acquisition Reports for the period was $2.02T.
Read More »NGA Integrates Small Satellite Imagery Into Global GEOINT Delivery System
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has expanded its unclassified geospatial intelligence delivery system with images captured by commercial small satellites. NGA said Thursday that government agencies and international allies can now access small satellite imagery from Planet Federal and BlackSky Global through the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery platform to support various missions.
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