Members of the Machinists’ Union Local S6 have voted to reject a three-year contract from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works that covers shipyard work for the Navy’s destroyer fleet. Some 4.3K shipyard workers, or 87 percent of the union, staged a work stoppage in protest over the contract at midnight Sunday, thus suspending work for […]
The Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile program, which will replace the Minuteman III ICBMs, is set to advance after it passed a Department of Defense statutory review prompted by a cost overrun of more than 25 percent above baseline projections. William LaPlante, DOD undersecretary for acquisitions and a 2024 Wash100 awardee and speaker in a past […]
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro has confirmed that Erik Raven is departing his post as the military service’s undersecretary in August. Del Toro, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, praised Raven’s leadership in advancing the Department of the Navy’s key priorities and highlighted his dedication to bolstering both the Navy and the […]
The use of artificial intelligence has been growing among members of the U.S. intelligence community, according to Lakshmi Raman, director of artificial intelligence innovation at the CIA. Speaking at the recent Amazon Web Services Summit in Washington, D.C., Raman, a past Potomac Officers Club event speaker, said more agencies are using generative AI to write […]
The U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office Missiles and Space and Army Contracting Command in Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, has awarded Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control a multiyear, $4.5 billion contract for Patriot Advanced Capability-3 Missile Segment Enhancement missiles production. Specifically, the contract award entails the procurement of 870 PAC-3 MSE missiles and related equipment for […]
The U.S. Space Force has begun the first synchronized deployment phase, also known as the Commit phase, of its Space Force Generation Model to optimize its readiness for potential conflicts with major powers. SPAFORGEN is a three-phase rotational model designed to maintain high levels of combat readiness while allowing Space Force personnel to conduct daily […]
The Department of Defense’s Zero Trust Portfolio Management Office is creating a five-step procedure to assess a zero-trust solution before its procurement by DOD units, Randy Resnick, the office’s director, said. Resnick, a 2024 Wash100 awardee and speaker in a past Potomac Officers Club event, also told participants at the recent AFCEA TechNet Cyber conference […]
Organizations interested in becoming an assessor for the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program may now submit their applications, according to the head of the CMMC accreditation body. “I’m pleased to report that we had a very successful ‘warm opening’ with over 167 transactions,” said Ty Schieber, chairman of the board of the CMMC accreditation body […]
An executive from the Department of Homeland Security has dismissed the idea of including Huawei in the agency’s Information and Communications Technology Supply Chain Task Force, citing the national security risks tied with the Chinese company. While the task force values a diverse set of opinions in its mission to strengthen government agencies’ cybersecurity, DHS officials […]
Google Cloud has appointed Chris DeRusha as the chief of its global public sector compliance unit. DeRusha, the former federal chief information security officer and deputy national cyber director, will oversee the expansion of Google Cloud’s artificial intelligence, cloud computing and security products within the United States and internationally, FedScoop reported. During his three-year stint […]
