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 […]
Christopher Cleary, the principal cyber adviser at the Department of the Navy, has unveiled the Cyberspace Superiority Vision, a document intended to direct the reinforcement of the Navy’s information technology infrastructure by laying out a vision and key priorities. A past Potomac Officers Club speaker, Cleary said the core principles of “secure, survive and strike” […]
Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency, spoke on Tuesday about the function of “translator sats” planned for integration into the Transport Layer, an in-development low Earth orbit constellation meant to provide resilient communication capabilities to the entire U.S. military. He explained in a keynote address at a Mitchell Institute event that the payloads […]
Gen. James Dickinson, the commander of U.S. Space Command, spoke at an Oct. 20 AFCEA conference about his priorities and how they can be supported by the private sector. He underlined the need to establish a global sensor network to improve space domain awareness and said SPACECOM is seeking industry-sourced advanced technologies that do not […]
The U.S. Navy has unveiled its Cyberspace Superiority Vision, which aims to enable launching operations in cyberspace that result in non-kinetic effects on an adversary. Chris Cleary, the principal cyber adviser for the Department of the Navy and a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, said the vision supports the information superiority strategy focused on ensuring […]
A new set of members making up the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board gathered on Oct. 17 in a partially public meeting to discuss a variety of topics such as national defense and digital modernization strategies. The panel of technology experts from industry and academia now counts multiple Wash100 winners and past Potomac Officers Club speakers […]
Raj Iyer, the chief information officer of the Department of the Army, has shared plans for a new $1 billion multivendor indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract vehicle intended to aid commands in rapidly migrating their systems to the cloud. Iyer, a 2022 Wash100 recipient and past speaker at the Potomac Officers Club, told the press that the Army […]
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has released the intelligence community’s Annual Demographic Report for Fiscal Year 2021, which presents metrics and trends pertaining to the hiring and retention of women, minorities and persons with disabilities. The report also notes ongoing diversity and accessibility efforts by the IC as well as areas for […]
Gary Wang, Peraton’s vice president of cloud and application services, said the company will begin offering Appvance IQ. Wang, a previous Potomac Officers Club speaker, said AIQ is intended to boost software development and speed up release cycles. AIQ is an autonomous continuous testing platform built upon artificial intelligence. Its addition to the Peraton portfolio […]
The Department of the Air Force has begun providing a 100 percent child care fee waiver to direct-care employees for their first child enrolled in installation Child Development Programs. DAF also offered a 25 percent discount for all additional children on top of the existing fee reduction for multi-child enrollees. Other Child and Youth Program […]
