Fran Zenzen, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the vice president of business development for national security at nonprofit science and technology organization Battelle. Zenzen is an expert in revitalizing business development activities and enhancing profitability. She is experienced in handling solutions used by the Department of Defense and intelligence agencies. She has been with […]
The outgoing director of the U.S. Army‘s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency said the service’s efforts in cloud technology had gone a long way since he started in his role in 2019. Speaking at AFCEA Belvoir’s Industry Days event on Tuesday, Paul Puckett, whose term at ECMA concludes later this month, said the Army still needs […]
The Department of the Air Force has issued a request for information for an anticipated follow-on contract for the Cloud One program. Cloud One is the Air Force’s platform for IT capabilities and secure computing. It grants secure access to commercial cloud services and environments and automates cloud services and networking. According to the RFI, […]
The General Services Administration has released new beta versions of the USA .gov website and its Spanish counterpart as part of efforts to improve customer experience. Leilani Martinez, acting director of GSA’s public experience portfolio, said GSA noted how and why individuals access the websites and used the information to build the pages from scratch. […]
Robotics and autonomous systems provider QinetiQ US has secured a potential three-year, $48 million task order to support the U.S. Army‘s C5ISR Center. Under the task order, QinetiQ will provide research, development and engineering support for image processing and advanced optics technologies. The contractor will also develop and sustain software algorithms, computer programming, hardware integration, […]
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson has appointed Jimmy Kenyon as the director of the Glenn Research Center. Kenyon will oversee various NASA missions, including the Gateway Power and Propulsion Element, the Orion spacecraft and Space Launch System rocket development and other aeronautics research. He will also lead over 3,200 employees and contractors who design, develop and […]
The Department of Defense will release its zero trust strategy in the coming days following approval from the department’s chief information officer. The strategy will outline the Pentagon’s approach to achieving zero trust, which includes over 100 activities and key elements that are designed to keep data secure. Some of the focus areas are automation, […]
Ahmed Ayad, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the vice president and growth leader of ManTech International‘s defense sector portfolio. Ayad oversees business development, capture, sector growth and proposal operations for ManTech’s defense clients. He also sets metrics, builds relationships with customers and oversees proposal operations. He has been with ManTech since October 2019, according […]
The U.S. Army plans to add iterative exercises in 2023 to continuously test and improve data operations. Lt. Gen. John Morrison, the Army’s G-6 deputy chief of staff, said during an AFCEA Belvoir conference that in addition to Project Convergence, the service will have “over a dozen” events that would focus on operational technologies. The […]
The Department of Defense has been working with private companies to meet mission requirements ever since the end of the Cold War. According to a 2018 report from the Congressional Research Service, the DOD uses contractors to free up work for uniformed personnel, secure expertise in specialized fields and receive support in developing critical support […]
