Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks shared perspectives on the Biden Administration’s Additive Manufacturing Forward initiative in a Pentagon meeting Wednesday with some of the program’s participants. Hicks, a 2023 Wash100 awardee and a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event, said AM Forward represents the power of partnerships that will ensure maintaining the […]
A new section was added to the Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual on Monday covering the obligation to take feasible precautions in verifying if a potential target is a military objective. Examples of such precautionary measures are included in the update to the manual, which was first issued in 2015. The DOD also […]
The United States and South Korea signed an agreement to improve security supply chains. William LaPlante, undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment and a previous Potomac Officers Club event speaker, and Eom Dong-hwan, minister for South Korea’s Defense Acquisition Program Administration, signed the Security of Supply Arrangement during a Defense Technological Industrial Cooperation Committee […]
The U.S. Army’s modernization priorities revolve around hiding bases, enhancing anti-drone capabilities and addressing artificial intelligence challenges, according to Army Undersecretary Gabe Camarillo. Noting Ukraine’s ability to target trackable Russian command posts, Camarillo, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, emphasized in a Defense One interview the importance of reducing Army field headquarters’ signatures, saying […]
The adoption of Radio Access Network and software-defined networking can weave 5G into the Department of Defense’s computing infrastructure, a DOD official said. Thomas Rondeau, the principal director for FutureG and 5G in the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, pointed out RAN’s critical role during DefenseScoop’s DefenseTalks in May. Rondeau, […]
Department of Defense Chief Information Officer John Sherman, a speaker at a past Potomac Officers Club event and a 2023 Wash100 winner, toured U.S. military installations in Hawaii earlier in July to coordinate interoperability of cyber, command, control and communication capabilities in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Sherman’s trip included a meeting with the INDOPACOM commander […]
The Department of Defense has created three new assistant defense secretary positions within the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering and announced the individuals appointed to the roles on an interim basis. Maynard Holliday, a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, was named acting assistant secretary of defense for critical technologies, Steven […]
Andrew Hunter, the Department of the Air Force’s assistant secretary for acquisition, technology and logistics, recently said that the service is looking into the financial implications of its Enterprise Information Technology as a Service program. The purpose of the EITaaS program is to offload IT-related work to commercial providers, thereby freeing up military personnel for […]
Derek Tournear, director of the Space Development Agency and a past Wash100 awardee, has said that construction is underway for the ground systems underpinning the initial portion of its missile tracking and data transport constellation. Speaking at a Potomac Officers Club event, he added that the ground systems are expected to be operational by May […]
Sen. Mark Warner, a three-time Wash100 award winner, said keeping U.S. competitiveness in the technology sector involves increasing U.S. participation in conferences and organizations setting standards for emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. Warner, a former Potomac Officers Club speaker, said at a German Marshall Fund event that the United States has become accustomed to […]
