Parsons, a defense engineering company, has received a potential $160 million contract to continue providing enterprise construction management services to the Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration. The blanket purchase agreement includes a one-year base period of performance and four one-year option periods, Parsons said. Jon Moretta, president of engineered systems at Parsons, […]
The Department of Defense must dramatically revamp its approach to software design and architecture to keep up with evolving warfighting needs, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank said in a report. In a report titled “Software-Defined Warfare,” the Center for Strategic and International Studies‘ Strategic Technologies Program said Pentagon systems must be able to support faster […]
The Department of Energy has launched its fourth Energy Earthshot initiative, this time aiming to lower the cost of geothermal energy by 90 percent to $45 per megawatt hour by 2035. Energy Earthshots seek to accelerate breakthroughs in clean energy solutions to address the climate crisis and create new clean energy jobs. The first three were focused […]
The Department of Defense has announced its latest cohort of fellows under the Laboratory-University Collaboration Initiative, a pilot program aimed at introducing university scientists and students into the Pentagon’s research environment. LUCI was launched in 2016 and has since supported basic research in areas such as applied mathematics, cognitive neuroscience, engineering biology and quantum information […]
The Department of State has sponsored the development of a nine-day cybersecurity workshop aimed at training U.S. allies to combat North Korean malware. The effort is being led by the department’s newly established Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy, which is tasked with coordinating digital diplomacy and encouraging responsible state behavior in cyberspace. Titled “Unhiding […]
Cloud technology unlocks many technical advantages such as on-demand access to data, higher storage capacities and integrated data analytics, according to Salesforce. In recognition of the technology’s potential, the U.S. federal government has launched many efforts to take full advantage of cloud and ensure its security. In 2019, the Trump administration released a report that […]
Tom Lash serves as general manager of national security and federal delivery at Amazon Web Services. AWS is one of the hyperscale cloud service providers selected to compete for work under the Department of Defense’s $9 billion Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contract. Lash has 25 years of leadership experience working with clients from the defense, […]
Tony Garcia, a member of the Potomac Officers Club, serves as senior vice president of defense and national security at DMI, an IT services and consulting company based in Bethesda, Maryland. DMI helps clients solve business challenges through cloud-based platform-as-a-service, serverless and container technologies, the company says on its website. As SVP, Garcia leads a […]
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency‘s Source Operations and Management Directorate is expanding its work with the private sector, a top official said. The Source Operations and Management Directorate is in charge of providing geospatial intelligence products and services to customers from the Department of Defense and the intelligence community. GEOINT is the use of imagery and […]
President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Nickolas Guertin for the role of assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition. Guertin currently is currently the director of operational test and evaluation in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the White House said. In his current role, Guertin is responsible […]
