Jennifer Swanson, the deputy assistant secretary of the Army for data, engineering and software and a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, had an interview with C4ISRNET earlier in December about the service’s approach to data amid concerns by leadership about the growing amount of information that needs to be processed. She discussed plans to implement […]
The Senate has confirmed Evelyn Wang as director of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, where she will lead funding and commercialization efforts for early-stage energy research that could affect generation, storage and use. She was most recently the head of the mechanical engineering department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has […]
The Amazon Web Services Marketplace for the U.S. Intelligence Community now offers Rubrik Security Cloud, which is meant to provide zero-trust data protection capabilities using machine learning. Specifically, Rubrik aims to offer a way to easily set up an enterprise-level cybersecurity platform that offers data resilience, observability and remediation capabilities. According to Brendan McCarthy, vice […]
Terran Orbital has completed a subcontractor order to deliver 10 satellite buses to Lockheed Martin, the holder of a contract to provide spacecraft for the Tranche 0 Transport Layer. The Boca Raton, Florida-based aerospace firm supplied the buses over a six-week period. According to Marc Bell, Terran’s CEO and co-founder, his company will also design […]
One Stop Systems has secured a five-year sole-source contract extension to provide the U.S. Navy with ruggedized transportable flash storage arrays, spares and a variety of support services for P-8A reconnaissance aircraft. The California-based computer hardware manufacturer holds a prime position on the follow-on deal, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, OSS said […]
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has introduced a technical rule to amend the regulation establishing the Protected Critical Infrastructure Information program, which is aimed at protecting voluntarily given information pertaining to the security of critical infrastructure maintained by the public and private sectors. The original regulation had gone unchanged since it was published in […]
Halyna O’Sullivan is federal account executive at Instabase, a San Francisco, California-headquartered software development firm that offers low-code capabilities. Her skill set includes enterprise sales, marketing and management of accounts, customer relationships and overall business. A member of the Potomac Officers Club, she most recently served in enterprise account executive roles at Zoom and Kubernetes […]
Vice. Adm. Frank Whitworth, the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, said that the Joint Regional Edge Node could be deployed as early as fiscal year 2024. The past Potomac Officers Club speaker and 2022 Wash100 awardee told attendees at the Department of Defense Intelligence Information System Worldwide Conference that JREN would provide a speedier […]
The Technology Modernization Fund will allocate $100 million toward customer experience initiatives at the U.S. Agency for International Development and the U.S. Railroad Retirement Board. USAID is developing an enterprise-wide customer relationship management system while the RRB is planning to introduce online self-services for accessing benefits. Clare Martorana, the TMF board chair and a 2022 […]
Mythics will provide Oracle infrastructure hosting support to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s cloud platform under a five-year blanket purchase agreement. The Virginia-based vendor of Oracle products has worked with Department of Homeland Security component agencies since 2004. According to Matt Perron, vice president of sales, the award adds to “growing confidence” in the Gen […]
