The U.S. Space Force is requesting $340 million in fiscal year 2024 funding to finance the development of operational test and training infrastructure that will help prepare guardians for future space conflicts, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday. Saltzman, a 2023 Wash100 winner and speaker at […]
ServiceNow has appointed Raj Iyer, the former chief information officer of the Department of the Army and a two-time Wash100 winner, as the head of the company’s public sector business. Iyer, who spoke at the Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual CIO Summit in April 2022, will lead an organization that offers digital modernization, data services, […]
Lauren Knausenberger, the Department of the Air Force’s chief information officer, spoke at a Billington Cybersecurity event about the service’s progress on zero trust implementation and future plans. She said that she expects “to have a central image employing our zero trust end point solution” and complementary automation before she vacates the CIO position in […]
Kathleen Hicks, the Pentagon’s deputy secretary of defense, responded to concerns from Republican lawmakers regarding the sufficiency of the White House’s proposed $842 billion defense budget amid growing military spending from China. Speaking to the press Monday, she said “[c]omparing who spends what on what” would not itself determine combat success. A 2023 Wash100 awardee […]
The Department of the Air Force is seeking industry support to achieve its information technology modernization goals. At a recent Washington Technology event, Winston Beauchamp, DAF’s deputy chief information officer, said the industry can help the Air Force understand how to secure the exchange of identity information and role-based information across integrated and federated systems. […]
The Department of Defense has announced a total of $2 million for the latest funding round of the Defense Education and Civilian University Research partnership. Six teams composed of faculty members from civilian and military universities will undertake research projects set to last three to four years each. DECUR, a program under the Minerva Research […]
The secretary of the Department of the Air Force said there are plans to incorporate 1,000 unmanned aerial vehicles in its fleet as drone wingmen. Speaking at the Air and Space Forces Association’s AFA Warfare Symposium on Tuesday, 2023 Wash100 winner Frank Kendall shared that two collaborative combat aircraft will be paired with 200 Next-Generation […]
Raytheon Technologies will serve as the lead systems integrator for maritime upgrades to the U.S. Navy’s relocatable over-the-horizon radar, which will be used to detect from up to 3,000 kilometers away ships and aircraft aiming to smuggle drugs into the United States. Specific tasks include the installation of digital receivers, high-power transmitters, tracking capabilities and […]
An official from the Department of the Air Force said data modernization is a significant undertaking because of the size of the organization. Aaron Bishop, the chief information security officer at the DAF and a speaker at the Potomac Officers Club’s 3rd Annual CIO Summit, said one challenge for the department is the vast number […]
U.S. Army Gen. James Dickinson, commander of U.S. Space Command, discussed ongoing efforts to increase the number of space situational awareness data-sharing agreements with allied countries and the commercial and education sectors. He told attendees of the third annual SPACECOM Legal Conference in Colorado that 169 such partnerships are currently being maintained, of which 129 […]
