According to Air Force Lt. Gen. Mary O’Brien, chief information officer at the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the speed at which technology is advancing and the extent of its potential impact on military operations have reached “unprecedented” levels. Technology has repeatedly impacted the character of war, said O’Brien. In the past, tanks repl...
The U.S. Navy is looking at using artificial intelligence paired with unmanned vessels to solve its most urgent fleet readiness challenges in some of the most consequential theaters to the intensifying peer competition. In recent months, the service has made notable strides forward in exploring how AI and unmanned or minimally manned vessels can be...
The Department of Health and Human Services has outlined several focus areas of a $5 billion government initiative to fund public-private collaborations working to speed up the development of next-generation vaccines and other therapeutics. Project NextGen aims to streamline the process from drug development to government approval to prepare and pro...
Veritas Capital CEO and Managing Partner Ramzi Musallam was bestowed his 2023 Wash100 Award plaque by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson during a recent visit to Veritas’ New York City headquarters. Musallam has been recognized for eight consecutive years by EM’s organizational leadership for his unstinting vision, innovation and reliabilit...
Software factories are a central component of the Department of Defense’s enterprise-wide software modernization effort, and today, they’re growing slowly but surely across the defense landscape. But there’s still much to be accomplished in building out a full-fledged software factory ecosystem. DOD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer sa...
Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall received his 2023 Wash100 Award during a recent presentation by Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson. Kendall is confirmed to kick off the Potomac Officers Club’s 2023 Annual Air Force Summit on July 26 with a keynote address, and you won’t want to miss this highly-anticipated in-person event! Seats are limite...
General Dynamics’ (NYSE: GD) information technology business completed its migration to the cloud by closing its final data center at the end of 2022 and has pushed the adoption of a multicloud strategy by working with several vendors to meet the company’s back-office requirements, CIO reported Friday. “We’ve gone through our digital transfo...
John Sherman, chief information officer of the Department of Defense and a 2023 Wash100 awardee, said his office will assume responsibilities for all 5G-related initiatives within DOD starting Oct. 1, and has been working with the office of the undersecretary of defense for research and engineering to facilitate the transition, Breaking Defense repo...
Executive Mosaic CEO Jim Garrettson delivered the 2023 Wash100 Award to Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology, during his recent visit to the latter’s company offices. This is the sixth consecutive year that Gilliland was awarded the Wash100, which annually recognizes the top 100 key public and private sector...
The public and private sectors alike share at least one defining characteristic: their operations are determined by their ever-increasing relocation to the cybersphere. Work, agreements, communication, storage and even warfare are now all taking place online, in the cloud and across complex digital architectures. This sweeping and ongoing digital mo...
