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 […]
Michael Groen, a former lieutenant general with the U.S. Marine Corps, has been named an adviser at Zapata Computing, a software development company located in Boston, Massachusetts that specializes in offering quantum capabilities to enterprises. He will contribute to Zapata’s public sector product and go-to-market strategy. In Zapata’s press release, Groen, a former Potomac Officers Club speaker […]
The Department of Defense’s Office of Local Defense Community Cooperation will award 19 grants worth $90 million in total as part of the Defense Community Infrastructure Pilot Program, an opportunity for states and communities to compete for infrastructure and facilities that support the U.S. military. The largest grants include $14.9 million for the repair of four storm-damaged […]
The Space Development Agency plans to stop launching satellites for missile warning and tracking to geostationary Earth orbit to focus on deploying satellites with the same purpose to low-Earth and medium-Earth orbits. At the recent Air and Space Forces Association conference, SDA Director Derek Tournear, a former Potomac Officers Club speaker and a 2021 Wash100 […]
Andrew Hunter, a U.S. Air Force service acquisition executive, has appointed Brig. Gen. Luke Cropsey to lead the Command, Control, Communications and Battle Management office as its first integrating program executive officer. Cropsey will report to Hunter and Frank Calvelli, assistant secretary for space integration, and will oversee C3BM program integration throughout the Air Force, contributing to service-wide […]
