William LaPlante, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment and a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, highlighted the importance of research and analytics in decision-making and defense acquisitions during the 20th annual Acquisition Research Symposium kickoff address. In his speech, LaPlante, a two-time Wash100 awardee, noted that data-driven analytics is needed to monitor production […]
The Department of Defense’s chief information officer said IT user experience should be a top priority to ensure that legacy technologies will not hamper warfighters’ abilities. Speaking at the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s TechNet Cyber conference, John Sherman, a 2023 Wash100 awardee shared that changes in user experience will come in the forms […]
The U.S. Marine Corps has inaugurated the Marine Innovation Unit, an organization composed of reservists who would find solutions for problems identified by active duty Marines. Speaking at the MIU inauguration ceremony, Carlos Del Toro, the secretary of the Department of the Navy and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said he wants the organization to facilitate […]
Former Deputy Secretary of Defense and now President and CEO of the National Defense Industrial Association David Norquist, a Wash100 Awardee, asked the government on Wednesday at the Defense Logistics Agency Supply Chain Alliance Conference and Exhibition in Richmond, Virginia, to assist the defense industrial base or risk compromising an already vulnerable supply chain that […]
The Department of Defense’s chief information officer said zero trust would have made it easier for officials to detect and prevent the national security document leak that happened in April. John Sherman, a 2023 Wash100 winner and a speaker at the Potomac Officers Club’s upcoming 4th Annual CIO Summit, said during the Armed Forces Communications […]
The Air Force aims to begin the production of the classified AIM-260 Joint Advanced Tactical Missile later in 2023. During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall, a 2023 Wash100 winner and an upcoming Potomac Officers Club speaker, said the department will seek funding to increase production line size and capacity. […]
The operational imperatives of Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall have been getting a lot of support from the Digital and Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, and Networks Directorates because they can help maintain the competitiveness of the Air Force and Space Force. The seven OIs are critical in modernizing and improving the operational posture of U.S. airmen […]
Michael Brown, former director of the Defense Innovation Unit and a 2022 Wash100 Awardee for leading Federal Tech Innovation, has been named partner at early-stage venture capital firm Shield Capital. Brown, who joined the firm as a venture partner in October 2022, drove innovation for the U.S. military and was responsible for expanding DIU’s national […]
Top officials from the Department of the Air Force and U.S. Space Force fielded questions from House Armed Services Committee members at an April 27 hearing regarding a new launch services acquisition strategy that divides contracts into two tracks based on mission scale. Under National Security Space Launch Phase 3, the first lane would have […]
Sen. Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, stressed in a letter addressed to technology companies the importance of being accountable for the security of the technologies they roll out to the public even as he argued for the need to regulate […]
