Kodiak Robotics has announced that the deputy secretary of defense toured the company’s office in Mountain View, California, where she learned how commercial solutions could help the military. During her visit, Kathleen Hicks, a 2023 Wash100 winner and a past Potomac Officers Club speaker, met with Kodiak’s senior leadership and rode an autonomous truck. According […]
Gen. B. Chance Saltzman, the U.S. Space Force’s chief of space operations, cited during the opening of the inaugural Space Force Association’s Spacepower Conference on Tuesday the service’s accomplishments in 2023 and the Guardians’ role in each of them. Saltzman, a Wash 100 winner and a speaker in a past Potomac Officers Club event, named […]
Defense and aerospace technology company Northrop Grumman has announced a potential nine-year, $700 million Defense Intelligence Agency contract to create an integrated cloud and sensor solution to accelerate information delivery to warfighters. Work under the Neptune Phoenix deal will include utilizing model-based systems engineering to consolidate the DIA’s technical capabilities and applying digital engineering to […]
The General Services Administration has announced that Sonny Hashmi, commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service, will step down from his role on Dec. 29. Hashmi, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and Wash100 winner, has spent almost two years serving as FAS commissioner, GSA said. According to a press release, he is responsible for the agency’s nationwide […]
The Department of the Navy has established the Office of Strategic Assessment to spearhead the maritime statecraft that Secretary Carlos del Toro proposed toward a comprehensive U.S. naval and commercial maritime power. Del Toro, a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, said OSA will bring a key capability to ensure that the United […]
U.S. intelligence agencies looking for the most qualified cyber professionals should extend their search beyond the Washington, D.C., Beltway, according to Adele Merritt, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s chief information officer. Merritt, a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, underscored during an Intelligence and National Security Alliance event on Thursday the […]
U.S. Air Force Principal Cyber Adviser Wanda Jones-Heath, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said ensuring the service can defend against emerging threats will require adopting post-quantum cryptographic standards. She and other military officials at a General Dynamics Information Technology-hosted panel on Tuesday discussed how the Air Force will modernize its encryption infrastructure before fault-tolerant quantum […]
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall has warned that failure by Congress to pass a full budget for 2024 could delay the Collaborative Combat Aircraft program by a year. CCA is the U.S. Air Force’s effort to develop an autonomous pilot that can pair with humans, Breaking Defense reported Saturday. The service branch is asking for […]
Heidi Shyu, the Pentagon’s undersecretary of defense for research and engineering, revealed on Saturday that the Deputy’s Management Action Group has approved three capabilities tested under the Rapid Defense Experimentation Reserve, a program to accelerate the development of warfighting capabilities through prototyping. Shyu, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, […]
Government collaboration with private industry at all levels is needed to build a strong defense industrial base and manpower pipeline, William LaPlante, Department of Defense undersecretary for acquisition and sustainment and a Wash100 winner, said. LaPlante said at a panel discussion at the Reagan National Defense Forum that the collaboration has to be from “the […]
