Margaret Palmieri, deputy chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, said budget issues could impact the Joint All-Domain Command and Control‘s accessibility. Speaking at a Hudson Institute event, Palmieri, who will speak at an upcoming Potomac Officers Club event, shared that while JADC2 achieved minimum viable capability during the Global Information Dominance Experiment 8, the Department […]
The Department of Defense has issued a new memo addressing who will be responsible for ensuring the security of cloud services at FedRAMP moderate level. Ray Iyer, global head of the public sector at ServiceNow and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said the new DOD memo ensures that the contractor is responsible for […]
The Department of Defense will be awarding more than $55 million worth of federal grants for projects to improve energy efficiency and resilience at multiple locations. Kathleen Hicks, deputy secretary for defense and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said the funding will help the department strengthen its energy resilience and operational capabilities while […]
The Department of Defense has directed Northrop Grumman to start low-rate manufacturing of the B-21 Raider stealth bomber, following the initial ground and flight tests of the warplane’s prototype, William LaPlante, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, said. The go-ahead was also granted based on the “mature plans for manufacturing” of the Northrop team, […]
Ann Dunkin, chief information officer at the Department of Energy and a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, said the agency has measures in place for responsibly using artificial intelligence for internal operations. In a Fed Gov Today interview, Dunkin shared that the department wants to make sure that employees can use AI and machine learning […]
The Space Development Agency has awarded three contractors to develop 54 satellites to support the Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture effort. Companies tapped to join the project are L3Harris Technologies, Lockheed Martin and Sierra Space, which are each expected to deliver and operate 19 space vehicles that will be part of the Tranche 2 Tracking Layer […]
McLean, Virginia-based incubation firm Red Cell Partners has announced the appointment of George Barnes, former National Security Agency deputy director, as president of the company’s newly established Cyber Practice. Barnes, a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, retired as NSA deputy director in September 2023 after six years in the post. He will […]
The U.S. Army will focus on consolidating the Army National Guard, the Army Reserve and the Army Materiel Command’s information technology networks in 2024, onward to centralizing the service branch to just a single IT network by 2027. A unified network connection of the enterprise and tactical edge is one of the Army’s major modernization […]
Defense Information Systems Agency Director Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner, past POC speaker and 2023 Wash100 winner, said the agency will soon create a new intelligence unit. Speaking at the annual Army IT Day conference of AFCEA’s Northern Virginia chapter on Thursday, Skinner said the unit, which he announced in May 2023, will help the combat […]
Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro, a past Potomac Officers Club and 2023 Wash100 awardee, has directed Nickolas Guertin, the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition and Vice Adm. James Downey, the commander of the Naval Sea Systems Command, to review the service’s shipbuilding portfolio. According to Del Toro, the review would […]
