Michael Brown has taken a seat on Strider Technologies’ board of directors, where he will support executive efforts to rapidly scale the organization. A past Potomac Officers Club speaker and 2022 Wash100 winner, Brown said that Strider’s intelligence solutions aid in counteracting nation-states that poach talent, compromise supply chains and steal technology from government, industry […]
Bell Textron will conduct early development for the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft program under a $1.3 billion contract awarded by the U.S. Army. Maj. Gen. Robert Barrie, the program executive officer for aviation, explained that Bell will undertake preliminary design work and provide virtual prototypes. The goal of FLRAA is to phase out the […]
Gen. James Dickinson, the U.S. Space Command head and a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, has urged the U.S. military to collaborate with commercial launch companies with the capability to launch national security payloads in a compressed timeline from multiple locations. Speaking at an online Mitchell Institute event, Dickinson highlighted the need for responsive launch […]
The Office of the National Cyber Director will soon lead the implementation of a new strategy that is expected to transform the United States’ digital landscape and cybersecurity posture. Chris Inglis, the director of ONCD, a Wash100 winner and a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, said the White House agency worked with other federal agencies, […]
The U.S. Army is determining which of its munition programs can support a multiyear contract approach to enable large-scale procurement of high-priority munitions to support Ukraine in its fight against Russia and replenish U.S. stockpiles. The military branch started evaluating the programs in case bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate seeking to provide the Pentagon […]
Chris Scolese, director of the National Reconnaissance Office, said at an Intelligence and National Security Alliance event Tuesday that the agency is looking into artificial intelligence and machine learning to coordinate its spy satellites, conduct data analyses in orbit and accelerate responses to mission requests. During a separate event, the past Potomac Officers Club and […]
The Space Development Agency has posted a draft solicitation for the Battle Management Command, Control and Communications Application Factory, a planned internal software development environment for the U.S. Space Force. Capabilities produced by the facility are intended to support the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control program. During a National Security Space Association […]
The outgoing director of the U.S. Army‘s Enterprise Cloud Management Agency said the service’s efforts in cloud technology had gone a long way since he started in his role in 2019. Speaking at AFCEA Belvoir’s Industry Days event on Tuesday, Paul Puckett, whose term at ECMA concludes later this month, said the Army still needs […]
The U.S. Army plans to add iterative exercises in 2023 to continuously test and improve data operations. Lt. Gen. John Morrison, the Army’s G-6 deputy chief of staff, said during an AFCEA Belvoir conference that in addition to Project Convergence, the service will have “over a dozen” events that would focus on operational technologies. The […]
Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks has approved the creation of a new project focused on reducing weapon system sustainment costs. Speaking at the Professional Services Council’s Defense Services Conference, Christopher Lowman, the assistant secretary of defense for sustainment and a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, said the Pentagon plans to release a notice in December […]
