The Potomac Officers Club is thrilled to announce Jane Rathbun, U.S. Navy chief information officer and two-time Wash100 Award winner, as a keynote speaker for the 2025 Navy Summit. Scheduled for August 26 at the Hilton McLean in northern Virginia, this highly-anticipated event will gather top voices from government and industry sectors to discuss critical […]
AUKUS, the blockbuster, multi-billion dollar security cooperation effort by the U.S., United Kingdom and Australia, is meant to share advanced submarine technology amongst allies. But an announcement by the Department of Defense that it is reviewing the effort has sent shockwaves through the program. The DOD is reviewing the pact to evaluate if it fits […]
NASA anticipates more business opportunities for optical data relay technology where it uses lasers to increase its communications throughput by 10-20 times what is possible with legacy radio frequency communications. Greg Heckler, NASA program executive for commercialization and Space Communications and Navigation, or SCaN, told the Potomac Officers Club that NASA programs like the Artemis […]
The U.S. Navy is preparing to release a new generative AI tool as part of an effort to accelerate these technologies to its workforce to help augment their day-to-day work. This capability, called DoN GPT, works at the enterprise level and is used in the Navy’s Flank Speed secure cloud computing environment for routine work, […]
The Potomac Officers Club is excited to announce Capt. Joel Uzarski, NavalX director, as a keynote speaker for the 2025 Navy Summit. The August 26 conference is an unrivaled opportunity to hear directly from a leader whose expertise and leadership is significantly contributing to advancing naval innovation. Learn more about Capt. Uzarski and secure your […]
Service-providing GovCons that typically operate based on hours worked rather than outcomes achieved can expect to be targeted for further contracting reform, a top Army official said Wednesday at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Army Summit. Leonel Garciga, U.S. Army chief information officer and a two-time Wash100 Award winner, said he would kill “butts in […]
Guy Beougher became an expert on AI after having an epiphany while working for the Defense Logistics Agency. DLA about five years ago was using chatbots, he said, but they weren’t yielding a reduction in labor despite automating human processes. Beougher understands the power of AI and what it can do to improve Department of […]
The Department of Defense has issued another memorandum instructing acquisition officials to better consider commercial products to the maximum extent possible and, now, they better not cut corners in doing so. John Tenaglia, DOD principal director for defense policy, contracting and acquisition policy, said in a May 27 memo that the department must redouble its […]
David McKeown has lots of IT challenges at the Department of Defense and he wants industry to help him. McKeown, performing the duties of the DOD deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and chief information security officer, expects requests for information to be issued for continuous monitoring and automation in the Risk Management Framework as […]
The U.S. Army’s broader effort to modernize its tactical communications network will leverage novel commercial technologies and provide lots of partnership chances for GovCons, according to a former high-ranking service official. Gabe Camarillo, former under secretary of the Army and a speaker at the Potomac Officers Club’s 2025 Army Summit, told Potomac Officers Club in […]
