Perry Knight, a retired U.S. Army colonel, has been appointed senior executive service member at the Defense Logistics Agency and as DLA Distribution’s sixth deputy commander. Knight has been taking on the role of acting deputy commander since January. He also has been holding the position of chief of staff since July 2006, the agency […]
Greg Allen, chief for strategy and communications at the Pentagon’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, said JAIC will stand to benefit if the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 is signed into law. The bill, besides providing the center its own board of advisers and allow the organization to move up its status in […]
The Department of State has awarded Janus Global Operations, a subsidiary of professional services Caliburn International, a spot on a potential 10-year, $15B Worldwide Protective Services III contract. In a statement, the Virginia-based defense contractor said it was selected based on its capability to carry out ongoing security task orders in Iraq and Somalia under […]
Maria Roat, deputy federal chief information officer at the Office of Management and Budget and a 2020 Wash100 inductee, said the soon-to-be-released Federal Data Strategy 2021 will highlight secured cross-agency collaboration, promote data skills training and emphasize data management maturity. During her CIO stint at the Small Business Administration, Roat served as co-lead for the […]
Timothy Grayson, director for strategic technology office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said the agency’s Mosaic Warfare concept could enable Joint All-Domain Command and Control commanders to construct their own mission-tailored systems to meet a particular mission objective. The JADC2 is the Pentagon’s idea of […]
Tortuga Logic, a cybersecurity company headquartered in San Jose, California, has received a $12M SBIR Phase III contract to develop the latest hardware security solutions. Ansys, a software organization based in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, will collaborate on the deal to enhance side-channel leakage analysis workflow, Intelligence Community News reported Monday. Andreas Kuehlmann, Tortuga Logic executive chair […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a non-regulatory organization within the Department of Commerce, has urged security and information technology practitioners to adopt a zero trust policy to maintain and monitor cloud security. In a new report, NIST said private companies and federal agencies should be given assurance that their data is protected and […]
The use of robotic process automation systems has improved the Department of Logistic Agency’s productivity in various parts of its business, including employee onboarding, demand planning, coding of materials and its enterprise business system. According to a new report from the federal RPA community, the agency tops all others in terms of RPA tools implementation, […]
Cynthia Shelton serves as vice president within a Vice President, Division Manager within SAIC’s National Security and Space Sector, a role she has held since April 2019. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC specializes in IT solutions, logistics and supply chain, systems engineering, training and simulation, intelligence, cyber and cloud, IT modernization, space and data analytics, […]
Patrick Binning is the mission area executive for national security space at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He is in charge of the programs that address space solutions to critical national security issues. As one of APL’s 12 mission areas, the unit offers advanced technology development, innovative engineering and technical guidance to members […]
