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 […]
Potomac Officers Club is honored to announce Lt. Gen. Karl Gingrich, deputy chief of staff, G-8 programs, as the keynote speaker for the 2025 Army Summit. Taking place on June 18 at the Hilton McLean in Virginia, this milestone event will explore the future vision of the Army amidst its 250th anniversary celebrations. Lt. Gen. […]
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 assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy role was created a year ago to manage the strategy and operations of the Pentagon’s cyberspace activities in a civilian-facing manner. Ashley Manning, an experienced defense and international relations official, performed the duties of this role for its first several months and effectively got the program going. […]
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 […]
The Potomac Officers Club—the capital region’s go-to organization for government contracting events—is excited to unveil Lt. Gen. Jeth Rey, deputy chief of staff, G-6, at the U.S. Army, as a keynote speaker at the 2025 Army Summit. The June 18 event will be a nexus for the military and industry leaders who make the Army’s […]
Gen. Michael Guetlein is no stranger to attendees of Potomac Officers Club summits. The U.S. Space Force vice chief of space operations and 2025 Wash100 Award winner has briefed GovCon executives on multiple occasions, sharing unique and actionable insights into future Space Force requirements, plans and programs and the best ways for industry to partner […]
