SolarWinds, the victim of a major Russia-linked hack of U.S. federal networks, has hired a new consulting business formed by former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Director Christopher Krebs. Krebs, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and 2020 Wash100 winner, said he plans to dedicate himself to the new business, which was stood up to […]
Ellen Lord, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, told attendees at MITRE’s 5G Summit that the Department of Defense is heavily invested in 5G use cases to demonstrate how they tie into the National Defense Strategy. According to Lord, a 2020 Wash100 winner and past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, the DOD is keen […]
Top thought leaders and experts on strategic cyberspace issues shared their thoughts about the great power competition at the recently concluded Cyber Beacon Conference, which was hosted by the College of Information and Cyberspace at National Defense University. During the conference, one of the event’s lead planners, Joseph Billingsley, drew attention to Maj. Gen. Kevin […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency plans to create a storefront where companies can access information and learn how to sell their products to the Department of Defense, a top official said. DARPA Director Victoria Coleman, a speaker at the Potomac Officers Club's upcoming Annual Defense Research and Development Summit, said the storefront will help […]
The Department of Defense has launched a program allowing certain defense companies to gain broader access to classified information. DOD acquisition chief Ellen Lord, a past Potomac Officers Club even speaker and four-time Wash100 winner, said the special access program contractor portfolio program was created in response to the increased level of technical protection needed […]
Former National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Director Letitia Long has joined Octo’s board of directors, bringing with her vast experience and understanding of the intelligence community. Long is a trailblazer in the IC, having served as the first female director of a major intelligence agency. During her four-year stint as NGA director, Long, a past Potomac Officers […]
The Air Force Research Lab plans to conduct a series of upcoming flight tests on its futuristic flying car, called the “organic resupply bus,” to assess its applications in a wide range of missions, including distributed logistics, medical evacuation, firefighting, disaster response, search and rescue and humanitarian relief operations. The flight tests are part of […]
The Navy is in the early stages of testing and refining the specifications of its plan to build hundreds of new unmanned assets, an official said. Navy acquisition chief James Geurts, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and 2020 Wash100 winner, said that it is difficult to design a 2021 budget plan that aligns […]
Maria Roat, deputy federal chief information officer at the Office of Management and Budget and a 2020 Wash100 inductee, said the soon-to-be-released Federal Data Strategy 2021 will highlight secured cross-agency collaboration, promote data skills training and emphasize data management maturity. During her CIO stint at the Small Business Administration, Roat served as co-lead for the […]
Timothy Grayson, director for strategic technology office at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said the agency’s Mosaic Warfare concept could enable Joint All-Domain Command and Control commanders to construct their own mission-tailored systems to meet a particular mission objective. The JADC2 is the Pentagon’s idea of […]
