With the creation of the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office by the Department of Defense in 2022, the Pentagon has signaled its intent to embrace AI technologies. Although it has yet to take such sweeping action, the U.S. intelligence community is following suit. In the 2022 Intelligence Authorization Act — the ruling that directs...
In today’s global landscape, information is the weapon of choice. The cyber aggressions playing out in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine have been well-documented and China has been strengthening its electronic warfare capabilities over the last several years. “I think that most nations want to avoid the attrition that comes from...
Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC) and the military products division of Global Ordnance will compete for 155 millimeter ammunition orders from the U.S. Army under a shared contract worth potentially $522.3 million. Army Contracting Command received two bids for the firm-fixed-price procurement and delivery contract via the internet, the Department o...
Executive Mosaic has kicked off its popular vote competition for the 10th annual Wash100 class of leaders who are growing in prominence across the government contracting sector for their vision, achievement and innovation. The 2022 edition of GovCon’s most powerful accolade garnered approximately 33,500 votes from readers of our publications ...
Heather Conigliaro SkyePoint Decisions, a cybersecurity architecture and engineering services provider, has appointed company veteran Heather Conigliaro as chief strategy officer and hired industry professional Heather Newlin as chief operating officer. Conigliaro brings to the role over two decades of leadership experience as she oversees Sky...
Digital transformation and the adoption of emerging technologies have served as major catalysts for innovation and progress for the federal government in recent years. However, as agencies move to the cloud, capabilities extend to the tactical edge and remote work continues, the traditional perimeters of an organization are extending and even disapp...
Many prognosticators and pundits have speculated that we have moved past the Information Age to a new phase of life and society dictated even more by technological advancements. Some call it the IoT, or Internet of Things Era and others consider it the Artificial Intelligence Era. Whichever moniker ends up sticking, there is no doubt that...
The Department of Defense has made changes to the Autonomy in Weapon Systems directive to reflect DOD’s continuous efforts to develop policies on military uses of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems as well as changes across the department over the last 10 years. The DoD Directive 3000.09 was developed to prevent unintended engagements ...
Crucial for interoperability with international allies, mission partner environments are shared communications spaces that allow for ease of collaboration with aligned governments. Joint All Domain Command and Control is the U.S. Department of Defense’s initiative to achieve communications cross-functionality between all of the country’s deploye...
A task force co-chaired by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the National Science Foundation has released its final report on the establishment of a national infrastructure that would expand access to computational resources, educational tools and data for artificial intelligence researchers and students. The National Artif...
