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, […]
While many are pointing to a brewing future conflict as happening overseas—especially in or near the Indo-Pacific region—a top U.S. Army lieutenant general and technology official believes it’s occurring right here at home instead, “lurking in our networks.” “Our cyber warriors are now the frontline force … Networks are targeted before the first kinetic strike […]
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 […]
Now more than ever, a steady leader in missile defense is critical for the U.S. to remain safe and competitive on the world stage. With conflicts brewing in the Middle East pertaining to nuclear weapons and the U.S. preparing its Golden Dome missile defense system, clear and dedicated leadership is essential in the federal government […]
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 2025 DOD Summer Series from Potomac Officers Club is setting the stage for three months of invaluable insights, top-level networking and exclusive updates from leading military and defense experts. For the first time ever, government contracting innovators can attend all three service branch-focused conferences—the 2025 Army Summit on June 18, the 2025 Air and […]
There isn’t a bigger buzzword in government contracting right now — or the the technology space in general — than artificial intelligence. For the last few years, AI has dominated the conversation and been at the center of many modernization plans in both public and private sector organizations. But Nitin Natarajan, former deputy director of […]
The Unified Network Plan is the U.S. Army’s roadmap to get all of its systems and devices to communicate and interoperate seamlessly. It is part and parcel with Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, or CJADC2, the Department of Defense-wide effort to likewise unite technologies across all domains (land, air, sea, space) and with Project […]
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 […]
