By Mick Fox, Chief Operating Officer, TechnoMile If you’ve traveled by plane, you’ve perhaps paused to appreciate the role of our nation’s air traffic controllers. They are a group of dedicated individuals responsible for directing tens of thousands of aircraft safely through their assigned flight paths each day. If you’re an aviator — eit...
It’s a cliché at this point to say the government moves slowly in terms of technology modernization and procurement of new tools and services. However, sometimes societal occurrences and world events come knocking and shake bureaucracy out of its glacial processes, forcing the federal sector to act sooner and faster. The combined effects of major...
Ted Colbert, president and CEO of Boeing’s (NYSE: BA) defense, space and security business, said driving stability and predictability are his top priorities and advancing these priorities highlights the need to have a well-trained workforce and address supply chain challenges. Colbert told Aviation Week in a podcast aired June 2 that BDS hired abo...
Carahsoft Technology has introduced a website to help government customers explore applications customized for the Salesforce cloud platform and view their procurement options. The Carahsoft AppExchange Public Sector Guided Tour Site serves as a resource of specialized tools and support services related to more than 7,000 offerings from Salesforce i...
Quantum computing is a rapidly-growing technology that, when fully developed, will far surpass the capabilities of classical computers. But although these capabilities are still years out from being realized, public and private sector leaders are already anticipating the threats that will emerge from quantum computing, and they’re working to stay ...
Leaders at the U.S. Department of Defense have been looking for a way to centralize their Joint All Domain Command and Control endeavor. Under this ideal state, communications and data sharing would be interlocked in a seamless mesh network that includes all six military branches and is functional at the edge: wherever a warfighter is active....
SpaceX and United Launch Alliance secured six new assignments each under a follow-on U.S. Space Force procurement vehicles for national security space launch services. Space Systems Command said Thursday that SpaceX will launch five missions for the Space Development Agency’s missile warning and tracking constellation and one classified USSF m...
Firefly Aerospace, an AE Industrial Partners portfolio company, has acquired Spaceflight for an undisclosed sum to further strengthen its portfolio of on-orbit hosting and servicing, responsive launch and in-space mobility, lunar delivery operations and other space transportation services. Spaceflight has supported the fielding of more than 460 payl...
With the growth and availability of open source data combined with an increasingly urgent need for speed in accessing data, organizations are shifting the way they think about classification and cybersecurity. Executive Mosaic recently spoke with Scott Price, general manager of Microsoft’s Industry Solutions Divisio...
When Leidos Vice President and Tech Fellow John Mears was trying to log in to his Internal Revenue Service account, he failed, because their knowledge-based authentication system didn’t provide the proper options, mistaking him for another John Mears in a neighboring state. Aware President and CEO Robert Eckel had a similar exp...
