Artificial intelligence was a popular topic of conversation at Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Homeland Security Summit. Panelists on the From Lab to Launch: Advanced AI Applications in National Security panel discussed the technology’s benefits and limitations and what they hope to get out of it in their day-to-day work to make it truly transformational. How […]

The Golden Dome proposed homeland missile defense system is the most highly anticipated Department of Defense business opportunity in decades. An independent estimate has the program costing at least $252 billion over a 20-year timeframe and the White House has already put down a $25 billion down payment to get the program started. Missile defense […]

Potomac Officers Club, the national capital region’s leading GovCon networking organization, is delighted to announce that Gary Owen, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration chief operating officer, will give a keynote address at the 2025 Homeland Security Summit this Wednesday, Nov. 12, at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia. The 2025 Homeland Security Summit is POC’s […]

Potomac Officers Club, the national capital region’s premier GovCon networking organization, is excited to announce that Joseph Edlow, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services director, will give a keynote address at the 2025 Homeland Security Summit on Nov. 12 at the Hyatt Regency in Reston, Virginia. The 2025 Homeland Security Summit is POC’s premier venue for […]

AI promises to transform homeland security in the U.S. by improving the accuracy, speed and ease of many of the Department of Homeland Security’s key missions. It has the potential to advance automation, enhance data analysis and bolster the nation’s resilience against cyber threats, among other uses. Potomac Officers Club sat down with a pair […]

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, or ARPA-H, is designed to tackle the toughest problems in healthcare. It advances programs in biomedical and health research that have both great potential and high impact for projects that need help not available through usual research or commercial methods. ARPA-H in 2025 made a number of contract […]

Kristi Noem, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and a 2025 Wash100 Award winner, has positioned technology at the heart of her agenda. She is refocusing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on cyber and overseeing the Coast Guard’s procurement of advanced unmanned aircraft. As governor of South Dakota, Noem made strategic investments to […]

The Department of Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification 2.0 program—dubbed CMMC 2.0—is the Pentagon’s biggest effort to improve cybersecurity and better protect department information in decades. The program provides DOD with improved confidence that GovCons and subcontractors are meeting the requirements for processing controlled unclassified information, or CUI. It’s also a requirement for bidding on […]

U.S. intelligence professionals have outsized influence in policy and budgets beyond their spy personas. Operating at the intersection of national security, foreign affairs and advanced technology, their careers often span decades in field operations, strategic leadership, technical innovation and policy development, giving them a deep understanding of mission priorities, operational risk and interagency coordination. Potomac […]